Founding Product Designer

6 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants
Get AI-powered advice on this job and more exclusive features.

This range is provided by Gizmo. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

We’re building Duolingo‑for‑Anything: an AI‑powered platform that turns anything you are learning into a social, gamified learning experience. We are growing rapidly, backed by top VCs, and recently raised $22m in Series A funding. So far, we’ve managed to grow to 1 million monthly users, with a product that is essentially an MVP. If you check it out you’ll notice it’s a little janky – but it’s also a uniquely fun and interesting design challenge. Users love Gizmo because of the thought that’s gone into solving their problems, and the delight of learning with gamification, social features, and AI that adapts to their needs. We’re now elevating the product with greater polish and craft, and we’re looking for our third design hire to help us create the most engaging learning experience yet.

Why this role is special

• Invent the future of learning with AI
• Be the third full‑time design hire
• Join a design‑centric team
• Work with ambitious, kind people

What You’ll Do

• Craft core flows: help us rethink our UX by mapping, prototyping, testing and iterating on core product flows from end to end
• Spend hours with users: whether it’s identifying new needs or evaluating current features
• Design playful game loops
• Evolve our icon and illustration language
• Bring interfaces to life with motion

Requirements

• 5+ years designing digital products with a portfolio showing both sharp UX thinking and a high level of craft
• Comfortable planning and running user research – interviews, surveys, and rapid tests
• Fast, iterative, impact‑focused: you know when to sweat a detail and when to ship to learn more
• Working knowledge of motion tools (After Effects, Principle, Lottie) and an eye for playful animation

Nice to have

• Experience founding a company or building a significant side project with real users
• Experience designing gamified products (mobile, web, or casual games)
• Experience designing social products
• Hands‑on illustration or icon‑system design skills
• Experience building interactive prototypes in HTML/CSS/JS or React
• Experience creating or refining design systems

Benefits

• Highly competitive salary
• Substantial equity included
• Hybrid working model with 4 days in our Shoreditch office
• Private health insurance
• The opportunity to be one of the earliest employees in one of the UK\’s fastest‑growing startups

Seniority level

Mid‑Senior level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Design

IT Services and IT Consulting

Location

London, England, United Kingdom

Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Gizmo by 2x.