Principal Product Designer

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:

• 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

We want everyone at SchoolAI to make a competitive wage, have fun, and do good. As we build out the team, we optimize for, and invest in, great people who:

• 🪄 Make Magic: You're making magic when you dream big, sweat the details, make the complex look elegant, and the final result is one that puts a smile on everyone's face. People are drawn to working with you and your work.
• ☀️ Rise to the Moment: You're rising to the moment when you show up, answer the call, make the extra effort, and appreciate the fact that we are working with the coolest technology, in the biggest space it’ll impact, and we’re in pole position.
• 🔗 Connect the Dots: You've done the work to prioritize, understand, and tie your work to your team, to students, and to the people who support them. You're driving tangible outcomes and can connect your work to meaningful, tangible business results and goals. You're connecting the dots when you've thought deeply and have a throughline narrative for your work.
• 🚀 Make High Leverage Bets: Always consider the board in front of you – using data, instinct, honed expertise, and user problems to pick the best move and maximize the impact of every resource. When the moment is right – go all in.
• ➡️ Simplify and Go: Cut through the noise. Focus on what’s essential and act with urgency. Speed is your ally, simplicity your tool. Embrace clarity and let it guide you to swift victories.

We use our core values to make decisions, evaluate work, and win. We expect that every team member demonstrate these values. In turn, we'll invest in you and your impact at SchoolAI.

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 up—where 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 matters—we'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 inquiry—spending 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

Qualifications

• 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 grit—you see obstacles as opportunities and find creative paths forward
• Speed without sacrificing quality—you ship beautiful work quickly
• User obsession—you're energized by customer conversations and classroom observations
• AI-forward mindset—you experiment boldly with new tools and processes, breaking conventional workflows when they slow you down
• Disruptive thinking—you challenge assumptions and push beyond obvious solutions
• Meticulous craft—you sweat the details that transform good into great
• Comfort with ambiguity—you create structure and clarity where none exists

Bonus points for teaching background or EdTech experience.

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 too—everyone 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
• 📍 Team: Design
• 🌎 Location: Lehi, Utah (Hybrid: Monday, Thursday, Friday in office)
• Must be local or willing to relocate to Utah