Lead Product Designer

About us

Joining Busuu means being part of one of the top EdTech companies in the world, a multiple award-winner recognised for its innovation and impact in language learning.

Busuu’s vision is to empower people through languages. We are the world’s largest online community for language learning, with 120+ million registered users. We make learning a language easy by combining AI-powered courses with feedback from our global community of native speakers and lesson content designed for real life.

Busuu is part of the global Chegg family. Chegg is the leading student-first connected learning platform and a NYSE listed company.

The role

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer who will lead by example and shape the future of our product experience at Busuu. You will drive innovation and inspire others to continually improve our learners’ experience across all areas of our product. You will play a key role in developing our growing design team, raising the bar by mentoring and coaching in their skills, tooling, & practice, helping our team to make smart decisions on process, resourcing and project planning.

We need a design leader who is user centric, tackling customer problems from initial sketch through to project completion, with the ability to work holistically across iOS, Android and Web, looking at the longer term strategy as well as the short term goals. Most importantly, you will positively impact the lives of millions of people – inspiring them to learn together with Busuu.

What does a Lead Product Designer do at Busuu?

As Lead Product Designer you will play a key leadership role at Busuu. As an expert in your field, you will raise the bar for learner-centric design and research across our entire design team. You will champion design thinking and collaborate with Busuu leadership to define, influence, and build support for long and short term product strategy.

Working across squads as a hands-on designer, you will lead by example, helping to inspire and develop our growing design team by championing team culture, setting design best practice and challenging others' thinking to ensure the most effective outcome for our learners. You will plan, design and develop the experience of new products and features, developing and honing existing flows with the aim of creating a learning experience that will inspire and develop our learners. In collaboration with product managers, designers, copywriters, engineers and education experts, you will help to lead projects across the entire product lifecycle and multiple product launches, setting the vision for the learning experience.

What we’re looking for from a Lead Product Designer at Busuu

You are confident in leading product design across multiple areas of a business through collaboration, planning and stakeholder engagement.

You are able to use qualitative and quantitative data and research to inform and identify new, high-impact solutions that will improve our learners' experience, shape our strategy and drive our company OKRs.

You have experience in people management and are able to mentor, coach, inspire and motivate.

You are a strong communicator to company leadership and outwards to our industry and the world.

You are able to demonstrate a high level of product design through experience, interaction and UI.

You have experience working within an Agile development team and work well with engineers and product managers.

You can lead design problems autonomously throughout the product life-cycle; problem definition to iteration, through prototyping and user testing.

You have broad knowledge and deep understanding of design methodologies, techniques and tools and have the ability to educate others on these topics.

You are able to design cross-platform and cross-device. You design for experiences, not for screens in isolation.

Not ticking every box or think you’ve got that unique set of skills we haven’t realised we need? Get in touch anyway; we’re always looking to add great people at every level.

At Busuu we want to ensure that you have access to some great benefits:

• Our centrally located offices are well-equipped with free breakfast, plenty of snacks, fresh fruit, and free dinner of your choice if you need to stay late
• Busuu offers a great Private Health Insurance scheme
• There is a personal training budget just for you, so you can learn more in your field to ensure our employees can continuously grow and progress in their careers
• We like to support our teams with their work-life balance so we offer flexible working hours and a hybrid model of working
• We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Staying connected as a team is very important to us, so we have lots of social activities for you to join such a team lunches, socials, quarterly team, and company events

What happens next

We aim to have a simple and speedy hiring process and we want to make sure that we are right for you as much as the other way around. The hiring process consists of the following steps:

• CV application review - We will review it as quickly as possible
• Let’s chat - Quick chat with our recruiter about your experience and the role
• Test - 60 minute task at home to show off your skills
• Interview - 1-2 hour interview to review the task, your portfolio and meet the team

Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. We pride ourselves on embracing our differences, whether they're cultural, racial, religious or otherwise. This means each one of us comes to work knowing that we have a voice – and a safe, judgement-free zone to speak freely.

If you like the sound of that, join us. We'd love to hear what you have to say.