Product Designer (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States; hybrid

Salary: $160,000–$260,000 per year, plus equity

Company

hirify.global develops AI-powered language-learning products, including conversation-first tutoring, voice practice, feedback, roleplay, proficiency measurement, and personalized curricula.

What you will do

• Shape strategy and end-to-end consumer product experiences for language learners across onboarding, activation, habit formation, retention, and subscriptions.
• Design interaction patterns for AI tutoring, voice-first practice, roleplay, personalized learning, proficiency measurement, and learner motivation.
• Prototype quickly with AI tools, code, and interactive design tools to make new learning experiences tangible before development.
• Partner with Product, Data, Research, Engineering, and Learning Design to identify opportunities, evaluate impact, and improve product quality.
• Use qualitative and quantitative signals to understand learner behavior and make product judgments.
• Work in ambiguous, fast-moving product areas where solutions are discovered through experimentation and making.

Requirements

• 6+ years of product design experience, including work on high-quality consumer products.
• Strong user empathy, user research skills, and the ability to synthesize insights into product strategy.
• Structured product thinking, sound judgment, and the ability to frame complex problems clearly.
• Creative, AI-native workflow and willingness to apply AI in novel ways.
• Strong visual and interaction craft, with the ability to balance speed, experimentation, and polish.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience in language learning, education, or another domain with substantial cross-cultural product complexity.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating user-centric thinking, high craft, and innovative interaction patterns.
• Experience contributing to scalable design systems.
• An interest in agentic workflows and the ability to experiment directly in code.

Culture & Benefits

• Equity is included in the compensation package.
• Work with a small, close-knit design team in a high-growth startup environment.
• Collaborate with distributed colleagues and users across San Francisco, Ljubljana, Seoul, Tokyo, and Taipei.
• Opportunities to hirify.global with users across regions and travel to company markets.
• Access to a critique-and-build culture focused on craft, trust, and continuous growth.