Gizmo are hiring a
Founding Product Designer
Were building Duolingo-for-Anything: an AI-powered platform that turns anything you are learning into a social, gamified learning experience. We are growing rapidly, backed by top VCs, and recently raised $22m in Series A funding. So far, weve managed to grow to 1 million monthly users, with a product that is essentially an MVP. If you check it out youll notice its a little janky - but its also a uniquely fun and interesting design challenge. Users love Gizmo because of the thought thats gone into solving their problems, and the delight of learning with gamification, social features, and AI that adapts to their needs.
Were now elevating the product with greater polish and craft, and were looking for our third design hire to help us create the most engaging learning experience yet.
Why this role is special
Invent the future of learning with AI: AI is evolving at rapid speed, and we believe that the winning UX paradigms havent been discovered yet. Here youll have a chance to experiment, invent, and push new tools to their limits.
Be the third full time design hire: Youll shape Gizmos design DNA. You wont just follow established processes; youll create them, influencing everything from our visual identity to our design culture.
Join a design-centric team: The whole company believes that outstanding, delightful design will be the key to winning over consumers and building learning experiences that last.
Work with ambitious, kind people: Weve hired a fantastic team who are all deeply committed to building delightful, innovative product experiences.
What youll do
Craft core flows: Help us rethink our UX by mapping, prototyping, testing and iterating on core product flows from end to end.
Spend hours with users: Whether its identifying new needs or evaluating current features, youll spend a lot of time talking to users.
Design playful game loops: Create motivating mechanics, rewards and progression systems that make learning fun.
Evolve our icon and illustration language: Extend the existing library and create new assets.
Bring interfaces to life with motion: Craft UI and character animations that make every action feel responsive and fun.
Qualifications
5+ years designing digital products with a portfolio showing both sharp UX thinking and a high level of craft.
Comfortable planning and running user research - interviews, surveys, and rapid tests.
Fast, iterative, and impact-focused: you know when to sweat a detail and when to ship to learn more.
Working knowledge of motion tools (After Effects, Principle, Lottie) and an eye for playful animation.
Nice to have:
- Experience founding a company or building a significant side project that has had some real users
- Experience designing gamified products (mobile, web, or casual games)
- Experience designing social products
- Hands-on illustration or icon-system design skills.
- Experience building interactive prototypes in HTML/CSS/JS or React
- Experience creating or refining design systems
Benefits
Highly competitive salary
Substantial equity included - youll own a piece of what youre building
Hybrid working model with 4 days in our Shoreditch office.
Private health insurance
The opportunity to be one of the earliest employees in one of the UKs fastest-growing startups.
