What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Product Designer position at SchoolAI?
About SchoolAI
At SchoolAI, we believe AI can transform education. By combining cutting-edge AI with a deep understanding of K12 challenges, we empower educators, administrators, and students to achieve more.
This is an exciting time to join our mission-driven team:
About The Role
We're building a new product from 0 to 1, and we need an exceptional designer to lead it.
This is a rare opportunity to shape something from the ground upâwhere your decisions will directly impact millions of students and educators. You'll own the design vision while collaborating with a team that has shipped products at Meta, Bose, Roku, Lenovo, LG, Instawork, Route, and more.
Here's what makes this different: Design is the highest leverage work we do at SchoolAI. It's valued from individual contributors through the executive team. We're not explaining what UX design is or why it mattersâwe're doing exceptional work at speed. If you're ready to do the best work of your career, this is the place.
What You'll Do
Why SchoolAI
We're designing AI-first solutions at the cutting edge of technology and education, solving problems that have never been solved before. The mission matters: we're changing how millions of students learn. The people matter tooâeveryone here has good hearts and is all-in on meaningful work.
You'll have deep support from our Head of Design and team, with mentorship and growth opportunities as we scale. But you'll also have the autonomy to build something new and make it yours.
What We Offer
đ Location: Lehi, Utah (Hybrid: Monday, Thursday, Friday in office)
Must be local or willing to relocate to Utah
At SchoolAI, we believe AI can transform education. By combining cutting-edge AI with a deep understanding of K12 challenges, we empower educators, administrators, and students to achieve more.
This is an exciting time to join our mission-driven team:
- Over 1 million educators trust SchoolAI to bring their classrooms to life
- Series A funded and named Startup of the Year at Silicon Slopes 2025
- Shape the Future: Build solutions that improve learning for students and make educators' lives easier
- Grow Fast: Scale your career as SchoolAI scales
- Mission with Purpose: Make a real difference for every educator and student
- đȘ Make Magic â Surprise and delight.
- âïž Rise to the Moment â Play big.
- đ Find Leverage â Work hard and smart.
- đȘ Overwhelm Constraints â Every second counts.
- đ Connect the Dots â Systems thinking and tight feedback loops.
- âĄïž Simplify and Go â Do the simplest thing that might work.
- đ» Run at the Bear â Do the hard thing.
- đ Have Fun Winning Together â All for one.
About The Role
We're building a new product from 0 to 1, and we need an exceptional designer to lead it.
This is a rare opportunity to shape something from the ground upâwhere your decisions will directly impact millions of students and educators. You'll own the design vision while collaborating with a team that has shipped products at Meta, Bose, Roku, Lenovo, LG, Instawork, Route, and more.
Here's what makes this different: Design is the highest leverage work we do at SchoolAI. It's valued from individual contributors through the executive team. We're not explaining what UX design is or why it mattersâwe're doing exceptional work at speed. If you're ready to do the best work of your career, this is the place.
What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end design of a new product that transforms how educators and students experience learning
- Solve ambiguous problems with exceptional product thinking, planning, and execution
- Design AI-first experiences that push the boundaries of educational technology
- Get into classrooms for contextual inquiryâspending real time with educators and students to uncover deep insights
- Move with speed using AI tools across prototyping, design, writing, and visual generation to accelerate from idea to tested solution
- Experiment relentlessly with a test-and-measure mindset that uses real user feedback to drive decisions
- Craft pixel-perfect experiences that set new standards for educational software
- Collaborate cross-functionally to ship products that create measurable impact
- Exceptional design skills with a portfolio demonstrating strong product thinking, interaction design, and visual craft
- 0-1 product experience building from scratch in fast-paced, ambiguous environments
- Entrepreneurial gritâyou see obstacles as opportunities and find creative paths forward
- Speed without sacrificing qualityâyou ship beautiful work quickly
- User obsessionâyou're energized by customer conversations and classroom observations
- AI-forward mindsetâyou experiment boldly with new tools and processes, breaking conventional workflows when they slow you down
- Disruptive thinkingâyou challenge assumptions and push beyond obvious solutions
- Meticulous craftâyou sweat the details that transform good into great
- Comfort with ambiguityâyou create structure and clarity where none exists
Why SchoolAI
We're designing AI-first solutions at the cutting edge of technology and education, solving problems that have never been solved before. The mission matters: we're changing how millions of students learn. The people matter tooâeveryone here has good hearts and is all-in on meaningful work.
You'll have deep support from our Head of Design and team, with mentorship and growth opportunities as we scale. But you'll also have the autonomy to build something new and make it yours.
What We Offer
- Competitive compensation
- Stock options to share in our success
- Health and dental insurance
- Generous PTO
- A passionate team transforming K12 education with AI
đ Location: Lehi, Utah (Hybrid: Monday, Thursday, Friday in office)
Must be local or willing to relocate to Utah