StudySmarter | Vaia

Senior Product Designer

StudySmarter | Vaia

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Germany

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • We’re looking for a Senior Product Designer (m/f/d) with strong product thinking and a high bar for craft
  • 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

Requirements

  • 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
  • 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
Benefits
  • market-competitive compensation
  • virtual shares
  • flexible remote work
  • option to work from our Munich office
  • Regular team events
  • knowledge sharing
  • culture that values improvement and initiative
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product designinteraction designvisual designdesign systemsA/B testingmicro-animationuser-centered designprototypingdesign judgmentiteration
Soft Skills
product thinkingcommunication skillscollaborationattention to detailproblem framingdecision makingtradeoff analysisbuilder mindsetlearning from outcomescross-functional teamwork