Founding Product Designer

paddy is building the agentic operating system for teaching and learning.

Born out of our own experience in schools, our team is developing an AI platform deeply embedded in day-to-day teaching, from lesson preparation and delivery to analysis. Today, thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of students use paddy every day.

Our mission: to meaningfully reduce teachers’ workload while improving teaching quality, so students are better prepared for the future.

Backed by strong investors such as HTGF, we are growing fast with the goal of making paddy the leading AI platform for schools in Europe.

As our Founding Product Designer, you will own product design across paddy and work directly with our CPO, CTO and Product Engineers.

Aufgaben

• Own product design from research and UX to UI, prototypes and shipped experience
• Design and launch high-quality features with our CPO and Product Engineers, without traditional handoffs
• Turn complex AI workflows into intuitive products for teachers and students
• Use research, product data and experiments to validate decisions
• Work AI-native and use whatever tools get you to a realistic prototype fastest, ideally in code

Qualifikation

• 5+ years of product design experience, ideally in a fast-paced tech environment
• Exceptional UX and UI craft, strong product judgment and a portfolio of shipped products
• Experience designing complex SaaS or AI products across complete user journeys
• A hands-on mindset, able to go from an ambiguous problem to detailed execution
• Excellent communication skills, fluent German and strong English
• Passion for understanding users and solving real problems through product design

Bonus points

• Experience working at a high-growth, venture-backed startup
• Experience with React, SQL or backend systems
• Previous experience building AI-driven or EdTech products

Benefits

• Own the product experience in a founding role
• Receive competitive compensation and meaningful VSOP participation
• Get 30 vacation days and €50 in monthly tax-free benefits
• Grow with a personal learning budget and coaching
• Join regular team events and offsites
• Get dinner and travel home covered when working late
• Work fully remote, with the option to use our modern office in Bielefeld
• Join one of Europe’s best-funded early-stage B2G EdTech startups, backed by HTGF and experienced education and technology investors

We’d love to hear from you and get to know you. Show us the problems you’ve solved, the decisions you’ve made and the products you’ve shipped.

Our hiring process (5 days)

When schedules align, our entire process can take as little as five days.

1. CPO call and case study (D1): Meet our CPO and receive the case study directly afterwards
2. Case study pitch (D4): Present your work and walk us through your approach
3. Culture fit call with our CEO (D4): This can happen directly after your case study pitch
4. Final team call (D5): Meet the people you’ll work with
5. Decision (D5): Receive our final decision on the same day