Founding Product Designer | SimpleStudy

About SimpleStudySimpleStudy is building the exam prep experience students actually want to use. The numbers back it up: 1.5M+ students across the UK, Ireland, Brazil, South Africa, and Australia, growing by ~40k to 50k new users every week. The product runs on web, mobile, and desktop, and the team ships fast, with heavy A/B testing and product-led growth built in.SimpleStudy is post-seed, backed by the first investors of Facebook and Revolut, and board members of Stripe and Intercom. The team is ~30 people, based mostly in Lisbon. Lean, product-obsessed, and deliberately not your typical edtech company.They're now hiring the first founding designer to work directly with the co-founder on what comes next and develop the app as the best next generation of the consumer experience.Your impactOwn the full design process from understanding ambiguous product problems to designing and shipping solutions, without needing someone to frame the brief for youPartner directly with the co-founder on product direction, priorities, and design philosophy. Bring your point of view, and defend itWork in a fast, data-led environment: ship features, measure impact, iterate; use Mixpanel and product analytics fluentlyDrive consumer experience design: onboarding, social features, viral loops, and retention, work that reaches hundreds of thousands of students from day oneWhat you need to succeedSenior-level product thinking. You've owned complex design problems end to end, from "what are we solving and why?" through to a shipped solution. You don't wait to be told what the problem isConsumer product background. You've designed for B2C audiences at scale, and you understand growth, retention, and onboarding. The kind of products people find for themselves, rather than ones sold to companiesComfort with ambiguity and speed. You come alive when you're figuring things out, rather than executing a roadmap someone else already definedA/B testing mindset. You've worked in growth-oriented environ