Product Designer | SimpleStudy

Role: Senior Product DesignerCompany: SimpleStudyLocation: Remote, Europe (preferably Western / continental); relocation to Lisbon possibleJob Type: Full-timeAbout SimpleStudySimpleStudy is an AI exam prep platform that students find and choose for themselves.In some numbers:1.5M+ students across the UK, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia40–50k new students every weekWeb, mobile, and desktop apps$4M seed round with investors from Strava, OpenAI, and MetaThe traction came fast. Now the company is refounding: rebuilding the brand, the design language, and the product experience from scratch. The product grew like a Jenga tower, one feature on top of another. The job now is to rebuild it as a pyramid.The team is ~30 people, remote with a Lisbon office — lean, product-led, and deliberately not a typical edtech company.You'll report to José, the Founding Designer, and work with him as a partner. José tends to lead early framing and direction. You bring strong craft and take the work to the finish line, in close sync with engineering. You both shape the new design language, and you push back with a better idea when you see one.What you are expected to do:Shape the new design language and brand: design system, rebrand, and the new mobile app.Own the full design process — from an ambiguous problem to a polished, shipped solution.Drive the consumer experience: onboarding, social features, retention, and the learning loop.Work in close sync with engineers and PM, not as a handoff step - polish the implementation together until it feels right.Bring your own initiatives and say "no, but…" when you see a better way.Raise the bar for the whole design team.What you need to succeed:High craft — your visual work is polished and intentional; the details reveal your thinking.Storytelling over process — you take an ambiguous problem, frame it, and make it simple. Your portfolio shows artifacts, not diagrams; it has a point of view.Consumer instinct — you've shipped B2C produc