Product Designer

💰 € 4100 - €5100 per month (based on a 40-hour work week)

How do you make learning so much fun that children want to keep exploring? At Squla, you combine technology, play, and child psychology to design digital learning experiences that expand children's worlds. Their enthusiasm, unexpected questions, and honest reactions make children a wonderful target audience to work for.

We are working on a total renewal of Squla. As a Product Designer, you research what children, parents, and teachers need, explore and test new concepts, and develop them together with the team. Your greatest strength lies in research and the exploration and testing of ideas, and with your design skills, you bring those ideas to life.

At Futurewhiz, we build digital learning products that help children and young people grow. With brands like Squla and StudyGo, we support hundreds of thousands of students in their development. As a B Corp, we combine commercial growth with social impact.

Squla helps primary school children learn through games, quizzes, and interactive exercises that align with Dutch education. With our product renewal, we are building the next phase of Squla. You will help discover which learning experiences can make the difference in that.

At Squla, you will work on questions such as: How do you help a child get back on track after a mistake? What makes an exercise challenging without becoming frustrating? How do I ensure that the form contributes to the learning effect?

As a product designer at Squla, you work on the entire design process: from user research and concept validation to UX and UI design and implementation. You make ideas tangible, flesh out interactions and visual details, and build the renewed Squla together with the team.

You are a Product Designer who gets energy from:

• Understanding the target audience: You speak the language of children, parents, and teachers, visit schools, and combine observations with behavioral and usage data.

• Exploring and testing new concepts: You translate insights into opportunities and ideas. You make assumptions explicit and choose appropriate experiments and prototypes to investigate whether a concept is understandable, attractive, and valuable.

• Designing and further developing: You develop promising ideas into journeys, flows, interactions, and visual designs, with attention to ease of use, accessibility, and consistency.

• Contributing to implementation: You work together with Engineering to develop designs into working product experiences. Where appropriate, you can "vibecode" yourself to make changes in the product code, with review by Engineering.

• Learning from results: You use feedback, tests, and usage data to assess whether your design works and what can be improved.

You work together with colleagues from Product, Engineering, Education, Data, Marketing, and Design. You will also become part of the design guild within Futurewhiz: a place to discuss design work, share knowledge, and help each other grow.

You are a Product Designer who loves to investigate why people need something and how a design can align with that. You feel comfortable when a problem is still open and know how to turn research into concrete next steps.

Additionally:

• You have 3+ years of experience as a Product Designer, UX Designer, or UX/UI Designer and have designed and delivered digital products in a multidisciplinary team.

• You can conduct research independently: formulating research questions, choosing appropriate research methods, and translating execution and findings into design choices.

• You understand the difference between what users say, what they do, and what you can conclude from that.

• You explore multiple ideas before choosing a direction and use prototypes to learn quickly.

• You have good skills in UI design, visual design, and prototyping, preferably with Figma.

• You can weigh user needs against learning goals, product goals, and technical possibilities.

• You explain your choices clearly, are open to feedback, and take responsibility for the quality of your work.

• You can vibecode and use AI design tools to create concepts, working prototypes, and product adjustments. You critically assess the outcomes and ensure quality and feasibility together with Engineering.

• You have a good command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written. You can conduct research with Dutch-speaking children, parents, and teachers and share insights clearly with your English-speaking colleagues.

In your portfolio, we would love to see how you moved from research to insight, concept, and validation, what choices you made, and what you learned from them.

Experience with research among children, EdTech, digital consumer products, or learning through play is a plus.

• Salary, € 4100 - €5100 per month (based on a 40-hour work week)

• 24 days of annual leave + 1 ‘skipping day’ (day off) + 3 allocated holiday days

• Collective pension and collective health insurance

• An annual learning budget of €600 for your professional development

• Unlimited access to external coaches via Inuka Coaching

• Unlimited access to Goodhabitz for professional and personal growth

• Lifetime access to StudyGo and Squla accounts

• Office next to Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena station (with a Swapfiets or public transport business card if you live >7km from the office)

• A MacBook to work with

• An option for Payroll Giving to contribute to a charity

• Healthy lunches at the office, unlimited good coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks

• A Culture Crew that organizes fun activities such as outings, pub quizzes, and ski trips.

We are a passionate and diverse team, brought together by a shared mission: helping children grow in their learning process and empowering them with personalized education.

Our culture is open and authentic – we believe you do your best work when you can be yourself. Whether you love book clubs, monthly drinks, movie nights, baking competitions, Mario Kart tournaments, or ski trips, at Futurewhiz you will find a community that feels like home.

Our platforms are for everyone, and that applies to our workplace too.

The strength lies in our different backgrounds, ideas, experiences, and perspectives. This diversity helps us to support all children in their learning process, regardless of who they – or we – are. At Futurewhiz, we embrace each other's differences and create an authentic work environment in which everyone can be themselves. This also makes it easier for others to do so. We are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture, which begins at our office and extends across all our platforms – and everyone is welcome on this journey.

We would love to invite you to apply, even if you do not meet all the requirements but are enthusiastic.

Tip: above all, be yourself. We embrace the diversity of all our colleagues and are sincerely curious about your unique perspective

Visa sponsorship is not applicable for this role. Only candidates with a valid work permit for the Netherlands/EU are eligible for this position.

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