hirehire - Product Designer | SimpleStudy

• High craft — your visual work is polished and intentional; the details reveal your thinking. • Storytelling over process — you take an ambiguous problem, frame it, and make it simple. Your portfolio shows artifacts, not diagrams; it has a point of view. • Consumer instinct — you've shipped B2C products that people chose to use. You understand product metrics and use them as input, but you lead with feel and craft. • Opinions with backbone — you have a design philosophy, can defend it under pushback, and bring your own initiatives. You don't wait to be told what to build. • Energy and curiosity — you're an interesting person with a life outside work, and you leave people energised after a conversation. • English — fluent, written and spoken. • WHAT WOULD BE A PLUS: • A standout specialty: prototyping, illustration, animation, or motion. • Experience with social or viral product mechanics. • Background at consumer companies like Spotify or Strava. • Early-stage or founding designer experience. • Comfortable in code: prototyping or polishing the front end. • Build from scratch, at scale — a new design language for a product already used by 1.5M+ students. • A strong partner - work closely with José, the Founding Designer (ex-Shopify), with direct access to the founders. • Equity — generous stock options, early enough for them to matter. • Remote Europe — work from where you choose, with in-person meetups three times a year; relocation support if you want to move to Lisbon. • Competitive salary — no fixed budget, flexible. • A deck or a walkthrough video is fine. Show the work, keep it curated. • Please email links to your LinkedIn / Resume and portfolio to [email protected] with the subject line [SimpleStudy PD]. We are excited to learn more about you and your work! • The vacancy is proudly presented by the hirehire recruiting agency. • "Craft matters here from day one. You'll rebuild the brand, the design system and the product together with José, a founding designer who cares a lot about how things feel. 1.5M students, real traction, and a team that picks quality over speed." • Product Design Expert, hirehire