Senior UX Designer

$200,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($100 USD/hour)

You're stepping into a validated educational model that's delivering measurable results at Alpha School. LearnWithAI powers the platform that supports it, scaling rapidly across the US and internationally. Students complete their core academics in two hours daily and perform in the top national percentiles. The framework is effective. What's needed now is someone who thinks constantly about the people within it.

You'll establish design excellence, create the standards, and develop the capability. Your domain includes our learning platform and its connected learning applications, serving varied audiences both within and beyond Alpha.
A five-year-old who can't yet read is learning to count through a system that must transform novelty into play. A teenager performing two grade levels below is reconstructing confidence following years of academic struggle, where a single unclear interaction could undo progress. A parent gains visibility into their child's actual learning process. That transparency reduces worry and transforms them into an engaged advocate. An academic coach overseeing a multi-age classroom requires insight into advancement without information overload. You must understand each group thoroughly enough to design genuinely distinct solutions for each.

Your responsibility is the experience layer: investigate each audience with substantial rigor, transform your findings into design principles that engineers can implement directly, and deliver code-ready outputs that function immediately, not conceptual mockups awaiting translation. You collaborate with product leaders accountable for outcomes and engineers responsible for deployment. You challenge requests that compromise user experience. You maintain complete ownership.

You'll employ AI as force multiplication to accelerate iteration and expand capacity, but your discernment, not the tool's initial output, determines what launches. Primary attention centers on our education platform, with periodic work in additional domains.