Senior Product Designer (Illustration & Motion, EdTech)Location: 100% remote (EMEA, CET±2)Hours: Full-time, 40 hours per weekPay: €60.000 to €90.000 annually, adjusted by experience and location
At Miaplaza, we build homeschool platforms that students 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 child 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!
The roleYou'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 the student learning experience, 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 that hand-crafting alone can't reach. While you may not know every current tool, we expect your taste and judgment to guide 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.
You must have all of these to be considered:A portfolio of shipped digital product work — not only concepts or standalone piecesAt least 2 years working inside a product team, collaborating with PMs and engineersStrong illustration or motion skills, with at least 1 year focused on either as a primary craftProficiency in FigmaSome experience directing or guiding visual work produced by others — freelancers, junior designers, or AI tools
You'll stand out if you also have:Deep motion skills in product contexts: interactions, transitions, onboarding, character animationExperience using AI image or motion tools as production acceleratorsConfidence running your own usability research, not just receiving findingsMulti-brand or education-focused design experienceAccessibility practice, especially for neurodivergent audiences
This probably isn't right for you if:Your work hasn't yet lived inside a live product with real constraintsYou prefer well-scoped tasks over shaping ambiguous problemsYou see AI tools as either a threat to craft or a shortcut around it
Our hiring processAs a remote company, we receive a large number of applicants, and finding the best fit for this role is our top priority — that’s why our process is longer than usual. At every stage, we try to be respectful of your time and grateful you’re spending it with us.
Application and eligibility check — work authorization, timezone, availabilityAsync assessment — 12 scenario-based, multiple-choice questions (~30 min)If you pass the multiple choice section, you will be asked to complete 3 open written questions (max. 45 min)Portfolio review — the design team will review your best work and thinkingBehavioral interview — a conversation with our People team about how you workTake-home design task — 60 minutes, scoped for this role, AI tools encouragedHiring team interview — with a design team member and the Head of UXSkip-level conversation — with executive leadershipReference checks
We give honest, timely feedback at every step. Job searches are hard; we don't want to make yours harder.
Compensation and setupThe 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: https://parents.miacademy.co/🍨 Always Icecream: https://parents.always-icecream.com/🐉 Clever Dragons: https://parents.clever-dragons.com/📚 MiaPrep: https://parents.miaprep.com/🏫 MiaPrep Online High School: https://miaprep.com/online-school/▶️ Hear our CEO, Johannes Ziegler, discuss our company: https://tinyurl.com/miaplaza-CEO-video/🖥️ Careers page: https://careers.miaplaza.com/
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