Your Role
We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer (m/f/d) with strong product thinking and a high bar for craft. Someone who cares deeply about how a product works, feels, and fits together as a whole.
At StudySmarter, design plays a central role in helping learners achieve their educational goals. In this role, you’ll design experiences that feel considered, intentional, and visually confident, while always balancing learner value, business impact, and feasibility.
You’ll work closely with Product Management and Engineering as part of a cross-functional product team and help shape the evolution of our product experience and design language over time.
What you’ll do
Own product problems from early exploration through delivery and iteration, with clear responsibility for outcomes
Frame problems clearly, define goals, and make design decisions with explicit reasoning and tradeoffs
Design high-quality interaction and visual experiences with strong hierarchy, clarity, and attention to detail
Balance detail and direction by knowing when to zoom in and when to zoom out to maintain coherence across the product
Actively raise the quality and consistency of our visual design, interaction patterns, and overall design language
Help shape and evolve our Design System so new work strengthens the product as a whole
Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineers, challenging ideas openly and working as one team
Support experiments such as A/B tests and use qualitative and quantitative insights to learn and iterate
Use tools like Lovable, Cursor, Claude Code, or similar, to prototype and explore ideas efficiently
Ensure design intent is well translated into shipped product - taking responsibility for the final user experience, not just the concept
What you need to succeed
A strong portfolio showing thoughtful product design and experiences that feel intentional, useful, and visually confident
Strong product thinking with a user-centered mindset
A high bar for craft, including visual clarity, interaction quality, consistency, and polish
A builder mindset: you actively use the newest AI tools to prototype, automate, and bring ideas to life
Sound design judgment, with the ability to explain decisions, articulate tradeoffs, and apply design skills where they create real value
The ability to zoom in on details while maintaining a clear sense of the overall product experience
Experience working with cross-functional product teams
Comfort learning from shipped outcomes and using qualitative and quantitative insights to iterate
Excellent communication skills in English
We care more about the quality of your work and your design judgment than a specific number of years of experience.
Nice to have
Experience designing habit-forming B2C products
Background in EdTech or learning-related products
Experience working in experimentation-heavy product environments
(Micro-)animation skills, ideally with tools like Rive, to enhance interaction clarity and feedback
Why StudySmarter?
How we work
We are motivated by a shared purpose: empowering everyone to achieve their educational goals.
We take ownership of our work and its impact, collaborate as one team, and care deeply about results.
We value clear thinking, honest feedback, and the willingness to learn and adapt when things don’t work as expected.
Why join us
You have a real impact on the learning experience of millions of students worldwide
You join one of Europe’s leading EdTech startups with global reach and award-winning products
You help shape product and design decisions, not just execute on briefs
You work closely with a collaborative product and engineering team that values design quality
You grow in an environment that encourages learning, experimentation, and ownership
We offer market-competitive compensation, virtual shares, and flexible remote work, with the option to work from our Munich office
Regular team events, knowledge sharing, and a culture that values improvement and initiative
About us
At StudySmarter, we are building the world's leading education platform, making learning easier and more accessible for millions of students worldwide. As a fast-growing EdTech company, we’ve been named one of LinkedIn’s Top Startups 2024, App of the Day by Apple, and won several worldwide awards. As a company, we are pioneering with AI in Education and always work at the forefront of innovation.
