Lingokids is on a mission to help families raise amazing kids through Playlearning™. Ready to join us on this exciting journey? 🚀
Lingokids is a global leader in educational technology, helping over 185 million families worldwide raise amazing kids through Playlearning™—our unique approach that blends education with play. Our mission is to empower children with modern learning experiences, combining educational subjects with essential life skills to help them grow into confident, conscious, and resilient lifelong learners.
Beyond our award-winning app, we’ve built a multi-platform educational universe, including our “Baby Bot” and “Baby Bot’s Backyard Tales” shows, Podcasts, and Music Publishing. Our content, developed in collaboration with top education experts and Oxford Press University, ensures an engaging, high-quality learning experience in a safe, ad-free environment. This dedication to excellence has earned Lingokids multiple industry awards across app, podcast, and video categories, including Best Original Learning App by Kidscreen Awards, National Parenting Product Awards by NAPPA Awards, and Best Parenting Product by Good Housekeeping, among many others!
Mission
Lead the design discipline at Lingokids, evolving our Playlearning™ user experience in sustainable ways. Define and scale our design principles, systems, and practices to create a world-class mobile experience that delights children and parents, drives measurable business outcomes, and elevates design as a strategic capability inside the company.
Responsibilities
- Design Leadership: Own the end-to-end UX/UI vision, strategy, and execution for Lingokids’ products.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Product, Engineering, Content, Marketing, and Brand to align user needs and business goals.
- Thought Leadership: Represent design internally and externally, evangelizing Lingokids’ approach to play-based learning UX.
- Innovation & Optimization: Balance bold new ideas (new features, UI innovations) with iterative improvements to core flows.
- Team Coaching: Manage and mentor a team of ~3 designers, providing detailed feedback, hands-on corrections, and long-term growth plans.
Others:
- User Research: Champion user research and hypothesis-driven design decisions.
- Stakeholder Management: Handle complex, high-pressure conversations and influence executives with clarity and authority.
- Design System: Define, implement, and evolve a scalable design system and documentation that supports high quality at speed.
What success will look like in the first 12 months:
- Mobile Design Excellence: Establish and enforce a gold standard in mobile product design across Lingokids (UI, interaction, flows, usability).
- Impact on Retention & Engagement: Lead design contributions that demonstrably improve subscription conversion, user engagement, and NPS.
- Team Development: Coach and level-up junior designers through hands-on guidance and mentoring. Define clear growth paths for design roles.
- Stakeholder Influence: Earn trust and credibility across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and Studios, ensuring design is a central voice in decision-making.
- (Nice to have) Design System at Scale: Build and maintain a robust design system that enables consistency, rapid iteration, and innovation across squads.
Requirements:
- Proven experience: 7+ years in mobile product design with a strong mobile portfolio with significant impact on users and business outcomes.
- Proven track record with consumer subscription products, ideally in education, gaming, or kids’ space.
- Prior experience leading and scaling design teams.
- Hands-on coaching ability: Skilled at teaching junior designers through direct demonstration, not just abstract feedback.
- Experience aligning UX/UI decisions with clear hypotheses and measurable KPIs.
- Strong communication & influence: Proven success managing senior stakeholders and earning trust.
- Thrives under pressure: Demonstrated ability to deliver in fast-paced, high-urgency environments.
- Energy & drive: Ambitious, proactive, and motivated to make a big impact, not looking for a “safe” role.
- English fluency: Excellent spoken and written communication, including long-form async writing.
Nice-to-have:
- Experience with game design/mechanics.
- Experience with kids’ products (ages 2–8).
- Background in user research leadership.
- Expertise in career frameworks and progression for designers.
Life at Lingokids
📚 Career Growth: Your growth drives our success! We invest in your development up to €2,000 per year for books and training—so you can keep learning and growing with us.
🏡 Remote-Friendly: Work from where you’re most productive—home or our offices in Madrid—anywhere within a 2-hour difference from Spain (GMT+1). The choice is yours!
📈 Stock Options: Your contribution matters! You'll receive stock options, giving you the opportunity to own part of the company and share in its success.
🖥 Home Office Setup: Create your ideal workspace with a €400 allowance for setup and €35/month for remote work expenses—because comfort fuels creativity!
🍲 Meal Allowances: Get €60/month on your Cobee card to enjoy meals at restaurants or food delivery—good food makes everything better!
💳 Flexible Compensation: Manage your meal, transport and childcare expenses easily with Cobee, integrating them directly into your payroll.
🩺 Health Insurance: Access private health coverage at exclusive rates through Adeslas, seamlessly deducted from your payroll—quality care made simple.
💬 Language Lessons: Learning never stops! Enjoy free language classes in Spanish and English, to sharpen your skills and stay connected in a global team.
🌍 Visa Sponsorship: If you need a visa to work in the EU, we’ll handle the process and cover the costs to make your transition seamless.
🎉 Company events: Yes! We’re a fully remote team spread across different countries, but we love getting together from time to time in different corners of Spain, for team gatherings and recharging at our amazing off-sites!
Passion matters more than perfection
Didn’t check every box for this role? No worries! We’re looking for passionate, driven individuals who believe in our mission. If that sounds like you, we’d still love to hear from you!
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
At Lingokids, diversity isn’t just a checkbox—it’s at the heart of everything we do. Just like we teach kids to embrace differences, we celebrate them in our team, knowing that the best ideas come from unique perspectives. We’re all about creating a space where everyone feels valued, heard, and empowered to be their authentic selves. No matter your background, identity, or story, if you’re passionate about making a difference in education, we want you here.
