Founding Product Designer at paddy

paddy is building the agentic operating system for teaching and learning.

Born out of our own experience in schools, our team is developing an AI platform deeply embedded in day-to-day teaching, from lesson preparation and delivery to analysis. Today, thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of students use paddy every day.

Our mission: to meaningfully reduce teachers’ workload while improving teaching quality, so students are better prepared for the future.

Backed by strong investors such as HTGF, we are growing fast with the goal of making paddy the leading AI platform for schools in Europe.

As our Founding Product Designer, you will own product design across paddy and work directly with our CPO, CTO and Product Engineers.

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Own product design from research and UX to UI, prototypes and shipped experience

Design and launch high-quality features with our CPO and Product Engineers, without traditional handoffs

Turn complex AI workflows into intuitive products for teachers and students

Use research, product data and experiments to validate decisions

Work AI-native and use whatever tools get you to a realistic prototype fastest, ideally in code

Qualifikation

5+ years of product design experience, ideally in a fast-paced tech environment

Exceptional UX and UI craft, strong product judgment and a portfolio of shipped products

Experience designing complex SaaS or AI products across complete user journeys

A hands-on mindset, able to go from an ambiguous problem to detailed execution

Excellent communication skills, fluent German and strong English

Passion for understanding users and solving real problems through product design

Bonus points

Experience working at a high-growth, venture-backed startup

Experience with React, SQL or backend systems

Previous experience building AI-driven or EdTech products

Benefits

Own the product experience in a founding role

Receive competitive compensation and meaningful VSOP participation

Get 30 vacation days and €50 in monthly tax-free benefits

Grow with a personal learning budget and coaching

Join regular team events and offsites

Get dinner and travel home covered when working late

Work fully remote, with the option to use our modern office in Bielefeld

Join one of Europe’s best-funded early-stage B2G EdTech startups, backed by HTGF and experienced education and technology investors

We’d love to hear from you and get to know you. Show us the problems you’ve solved, the decisions you’ve made and the products you’ve shipped.

Our hiring process (5 days)

When schedules align, our entire process can take as little as five days.

CPO call and case study (D1): Meet our CPO and receive the case study directly afterwards

Case study pitch (D4): Present your work and walk us through your approach

Culture fit call with our CEO (D4): This can happen directly after your case study pitch

Final team call (D5): Meet the people you’ll work with

Decision (D5): Receive our final decision on the same day