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Kid’s Products Design Lead (Remote)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Creative vision
  • Team leadership
  • Operational excellence
  • Practical knowledge of AI-powered creative tools

Responsibilities

  • Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing team of animators, sound designers, UX/UI designers and artists
  • Set the creative direction for lesson content art and kids area features based on user needs and best practices
  • Drive the unification of design across multiple products to strengthen brand consistency
  • Champion the use of AI tools for asset creation to improve efficiency, scalability, and turnaround times

Key facts

Other skills

  • Team Leadership
  • Creative Design
  • Collaboration
  • Planning
  • Innovation

About the company

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Novakid

E-Learning / EdTech

Novakid is a Series B EdTech startup ($41,5M raise) with double-digit revenue growth in 2023. This online English as a Second Language learning platform for children aged 4 to 12 has delivered over 15 million English lessons for kids since inception in 2017. This award-winning online English school offers one-to-one and group lessons with qualified and experienced teachers. Kids learn efficiently through full language immersion and fun games and activities, mastering English for academic and career success. The ability to master the English language from an early age is important for a child's future academic and career goals. Novakid complements school learning by giving kids a safe place for real-life English speaking practice, and the methodology is based on learning games - representing the new generation of online learning. Novakid has been recognised by a number of organisations across the world. In 2023, Novakid was included on the 2023 Inc 5000 list - position 105 of 5000, and is 1st in the Education category. In the same year, Novakid won the Best Digital Language Learning Product of the Year Award in the Digital Education Awards; was recognised as a finalist in the 2023 EdTech Digest Awards in the category of Best Language Learning Solution and Novakid was nominated as a finalist in the ‘Early Years’ category of the EdtechX Awards 2023. In 2022, Novakid was selected as the winner of the “Overall Language Learning Company of the Year” in the 2022 EdTech Breakthrough Awards. Novakid’s mission is to build a global community of young English learners designed to encourage deep and meaningful friendships across different cultures. Vacancies: https://hr.novakidschool.com/

Company details

Company typeScaleup
IndustryE-Learning / EdTech
Company size201 - 500

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Job description

NovaKid is a global leader in online English education for children aged 4–12, serving 100000+ students across 50+ countries.

We’re now looking for a Kid’s Products Design Lead to define and drive the creative quality of our children’s learning experience across multiple products.

This is a high-impact leadership role for someone who can combine creative vision, team leadership, operational excellence, and innovation. You will lead a multidisciplinary team of animators, sound designers, artists and designers responsible for creating engaging lesson content art, self-learning products and creative assets for our kids area features.

You’ll play a central role in shaping a cohesive, distinctive, and scalable visual identity across our product ecosystem, ensuring our interfaces and ked-facing designs align with our brand and create a consistent, high-quality experience for children.

We’re also looking for someone with strong practical knowledge of AI-powered creative tools who can champion their adoption across the team, helping us work smarter, move faster, and deliver outstanding assets with speed and consistency.

What you’ll do

  • Lead, inspire, and develop a high-performing team of animators, sound designers, UX/UI designers and artists

  • Set the creative direction for lesson content art and kids area features based on user needs and best practices

  • Drive the unification of design across multiple products to strengthen brand consistency

  • Build clear standards, workflows, and quality benchmarks for asset production

  • Champion the use of AI tools for asset creation to improve efficiency, scalability, and turnaround times

  • Explore and embed new creative technologies that enhance team output without compromising quality

  • Partner closely with Product and Content teams to bring ideas to life

  • Provide clear feedback and creative leadership to ensure a consistently high bar for output

  • Balance creativity, quality, speed, and business priorities in a fast-moving environment

  • Help shape the future of the kid-facing design function through strong planning, structure, and team development

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