Founding Product Designer -at Chalkie

Founding Product Designer

Salary: £80k-£110k

Company: £3M seed-funded EdTech startup reaching 1M teachers globally

Location:

Remote, UK

Join the UK’s fastest-growing EdTech startup as the second designer alongside the CPO. You will own product areas end-to-end, leveraging AI-first workflows to build tools for 50,000 paying subscribers. This is a high-impact role for a builder who wants to redefine how AI shapes the classroom for the next decade.

• Exceptional traction with £400k MRR and a user base of nearly 1 million teachers across 100+ countries.
• High-velocity, AI-first culture where you will use Cursor and Claude daily to move from idea to production in hours.
• Founding-level influence, helping set the design patterns, quality bar, and principles for a rapidly scaling engineering team.

• Lead product areas from first sketch through to production, effectively acting as the Product Manager for your work.
• Engage with a passionate community of 50,000 paying teachers weekly to validate concepts and ship improvements based on real feedback.
• Prototype and ship directly using AI-assisted tools like Cursor and Claude Code, maintaining high craft without handoff bureaucracy.

• 4-7 years of product design experience, with a track record of shipping high-quality work in fast-paced startup environments.
• Proficiency with AI-first workflows and a desire to build interfaces where complex technology feels simple and intuitive for users.
• A bias for action and ownership, with the ability to balance deep design craft with the speed required at a seed-stage startup.