Product Designer&Builder for SmartyMe

Who we're looking for We're looking for a product designer who can take a problem from an early, unclear state through to a working prototype, and who builds those prototypes themselves. Three requirements matter most. High ownership, meaning you drive a problem to a result without being managed through it. Product thinking, meaning you can state the customer problem precisely and be specific about what in your solution addresses it and why you expect that to work. And building prototypes yourself, so that something real and testable exists without waiting for engineering. Design craft is assumed. These three are what the role actually depends on. What the role covers The role sits on SmartyMe, our mobile educational app, and covers five areas: Own problems rather than tasks. Work usually arrives as a problem, not a detailed spec from a product manager. You'd be responsible for understanding why, deciding what to do, and carrying it through discovery, design, prototype, launch, and measurement. Product thinking. Getting to a precise statement of what the user is actually struggling with, using user conversations, data, and the product itself. Then being specific about which part of your solution addresses that problem and why you expect it to work, rather than presenting a design and reasoning backwards from it. Knowing what you're solving is the part that decides whether the rest of the work matters. Build working prototypes yourself. We prototype with AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Replit or whatever you work fastest in. The aim is something users can actually use within days, without waiting for engineering capacity. This is a core part of the job rather than an occasional extra. Hypotheses and metrics, not only design. You'd own specific product branches together with the hypotheses behind them, and work with the PM as a peer rather than as a service function. In practice that means naming the metric you expect to move before you start, and being the perso