[Hiring] Senior Product Designer @Miaplaza

Role Description

At Miaplaza, we build homeschool platforms that kids aged 4–18 actually want to use — Miacademy, MiaPrep, and our Online High School are serving over 150,000 students today. Our product foundations are strong. What we want next is a step change in how our products feel: more expressive illustration, more purposeful motion, more moments of craft that turn a lesson into something a kid remembers.

We're hiring a Senior Product Designer whose craft anchor is illustration and motion. Our design team is small and senior, five designers when you join, and each brings a distinct strength: brand, design systems, research, and now yours.

You'd own product design for the student learning experience end-to-end:

• From problem framing through delivery, in a Product Trio with a PM and EM who have strong opinions and expect yours.
• This is product work with real trade-offs — pedagogical, technical, and business — and you're accountable for how it lands, not just how it looks.

Beyond Curriculum, you'd set the illustration and motion bar for all of Miaplaza:

• The standards, motion principles, and character direction that the other designers and the design system build from.

A defining part of the role is art-directing AI-assisted production:

• You'd build the prompts, references, and review process that let a small team produce quality illustration and motion at a scale hand-crafting alone can't reach.
• We don't expect you to know every current tool — we expect the taste and judgment to direct output rather than accept defaults.

You'd report to the Head of UX, with regular 1:1s covering craft, product, and career growth. The direction is upward: deeper craft leadership, cross-product influence, or both.

Qualifications

• A portfolio of shipped digital product work — not only concepts or standalone pieces.
• At least 2 years working inside a product team, collaborating with PMs and engineers.
• Strong illustration or motion skills, with at least 1 year focused on either as a primary craft.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Some experience directing or guiding visual work produced by others — freelancers, junior designers, or AI tools.

Requirements

• Deep motion skills in product contexts: interactions, transitions, onboarding, character animation.
• Experience using AI image or motion tools as production accelerators.
• Confidence running your own usability research, not just receiving findings.
• Multi-brand or education-focused design experience.
• Accessibility practice, especially for neurodivergent audiences.

Benefits

• 100% remote (EMEA, CET±2), with team gatherings in person a few times a year.
• Full-time, 40 hours per week.
• Pay: €60,000 to €90,000 annually, adjusted by experience and location.

Our hiring process

• Application and eligibility check — work authorization, timezone, availability.
• Async assessment — 12 scenario-based, multiple-choice questions (~30 min) + when qualifying; 3 open questions (max. 45 min).
• Portfolio review — the design team will review your best work and thinking.
• Behavioral interview — a conversation with our People team about how you work.
• Take-home design task — ~60 minutes, scoped for this role, AI tools encouraged.
• Hiring team interview — with a design team member and the Head of UX.
• Skip-level conversation — with executive leadership.
• Reference checks.

Compensation and setup

The pay range for this role is €60,000 - 90,000. Miaplaza’s compensation philosophy ensures equity and competitiveness while considering regional differences in labor costs. Placement within a range is determined based on factors such as demonstrated skills, internal equity, and local labor market rates for the candidate’s geographic area.

Miaplaza is a growing, self-funded EdTech company. We're an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If you need accommodations at any point in the process, just let us know.

Links

• 🎒 Miacademy
• 🍨 Always Icecream
• 🐉 Clever Dragons
• 📚 MiaPrep
• 🏫 MiaPrep Online High School
• ▶️ Hear our CEO, Johannes Ziegler, discuss our company
• 🖥️ Careers page

Individuals only — no recruitment agencies.