Product Design Lead
Role Overview
As a Design Lead, you will lead and elevate product design for a B2C AI learning app used by millions of students, focusing on UX, visual design, and implementation in partnership with engineering. This senior role involves mentoring and scaling a design team while hands-on designing key product experiences to boost retention and engagement. You will drive design strategy, establish review processes, and ensure the product is intuitive, beautiful, and impactful for global educational outcomes.
Perks & Benefits
This role offers competitive compensation with equity, 28 days annual leave plus an extra day per year, 40 days work from anywhere, and benefits like a personal development budget, mental health support, and fitness/retail vouchers. The culture is ambitious and fast-paced, with a flat hierarchy providing direct access to founders and true ownership in a lean team of 60 people. Although remote work is flexible, there is an expectation to work from the Berlin office 5 days a week with some flexibility, fostering a collaborative and high-impact environment.
Full Job Description
About us
Knowunity is one of the fastest-growing AI learning apps. Founded out of high school, it’s now used by millions of students every day. We’re building an AI companion that understands students better than anyone else — their school context, curriculum, learning preferences, and topic-level weaknesses — to help them reach their goals and replace old-fashioned tutoring.
We’ve raised €50M and built a human-sized team of ~60 people. We operate in 20+ markets, serve millions of daily active users, and reached billions of Tiktok views this year. We’re scaling fast toward becoming the #1 AI learning companion for 1Bn students.
We’re backed by a team of cracked engineers pushing the boundaries of consumer AI. A few examples:
Ahmed, repeat founder, raised €4M, ex-Uber — cracking AI video generation internally
Roman, previous founder of a 200k-user app, Cambridge graduate — leading our new AI products
Katalin, former deep learning researcher, Oxford graduate — handling trillions of data points
Ingimar, previous founder, UCL & TU graduate — building multimodal AI interfaces
Why you could be a fit
We’re looking for a high-agency, hands-on Lead of Product Design who deeply cares about what they put into the world.
Design is the most critical job to be done right now at Knowunity. We’re data-driven and strong on A/B testing. We’ve made many decisions based on metrics. Not enough on taste. Not enough craft. Despite being loved by over a million students every day, the product doesn’t yet meet the bar of a world-class consumer company. Your job is to change that.
If you succeed, the app will look and feel fundamentally different within a year. You’ll define a new visual direction, build the team to execute it, and create design systems that scale. You will have the trust, the team and the means to do so.
You likely have ~5 years of experience in a B2C startup and have shipped products that moved key metrics — by a lot. You’ll own how the product looks, feels, and works, end to end.
We value designers who:
Care. You deeply care about quality, details, users, and the full experience. You push back until the bar is raised.
Think. You think in systems, not screens. With data, not just intuition. For millions of users, not the perfect one.
Build. You build prototypes — Figma, motion, experiments. You’re a visual creative iterating on your own ideas.
Own. You own the vision, decisions, and roadmap. You lead by doing — and you’re the best designer in the room.
What we offer
Competitive salary + significant equity
Awesome colleagues & moments together
New, cosy office in central Berlin (mostly in-person; monthly paid visits if remote)
Paid office dinners & friday lunches company-wide
28 days holiday (+1 per year), 40 days work from anywhere
Urban Sports Club, mental health budget via Nilo, personal development budget
Visa & relocation support
This isn’t a slow place. We ship with high urgency. We have a huge mission and a limited time window to build a generational company. It’s your chance to have real impact and help shape how kids will learn in tomorrow’s world.
Application process
Fill the form
Conversation with Paul (Product) about your past work, goals, and ambition
Deep-dive call with Gregor (CPO) to review our app and design thinking
Paid onsite day to meet the team, explore designs together & final founder interview
Offer the next day
Contract signing
Onboarding
These steps can be completed within 5 days.
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