[Hiring] Product Designer @hirehire

Role Description

As a Senior Product Designer at SimpleStudy, you will:

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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 products that people chose to use. You understand product metrics and use them as input, but you lead with feel and craft.
• Opinions with backbone — you have a design philosophy, can defend it under pushback, and bring your own initiatives. You don't wait to be told what to build.
• Energy and curiosity — you're an interesting person with a life outside work, and you leave people energised after a conversation.
• English — fluent, written and spoken.

Requirements

• A standout specialty: prototyping, illustration, animation, or motion.
• Experience with social or viral product mechanics.
• Background at consumer companies like Spotify or Strava.
• Early-stage or founding designer experience.
• Comfortable in code: prototyping or polishing the front end.

Benefits

• Build from scratch, at scale — a new design language for a product already used by 1.5M+ students.
• A strong partner — work closely with José, the Founding Designer (ex-Shopify), with direct access to the founders.
• Equity — generous stock options, early enough for them to matter.
• Remote Europe — work from where you choose, with in-person meetups three times a year; relocation support if you want to move to Lisbon.
• Competitive salary — no fixed budget, flexible.

How to apply

A deck or a walkthrough video is fine. Show the work, keep it curated.

Please email links to your LinkedIn / Resume and portfolio to [email protected] with the subject line [SimpleStudy PD]. We are excited to learn more about you and your work!