Head of Design

🕒 May 12

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Kognity

51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

☁️ SaaS

💰 Series B on 2021-06

Education • SaaS

Kognity is a digital education platform designed to empower educators and elevate student learning experiences. It offers a range of resources across various curricula, including IB DP, Cambridge IGCSE, and high school science. Kognity's platform provides teachers with curriculum-aligned content, integrated teacher resources, real-time analytics, and assessment support. It aims to save educators time on administration while promoting active and inclusive learning journeys. Additionally, Kognity is recognized for its ability to adapt to curriculum changes, enhancing student engagement and learning outcomes in over 1,500 schools across 130 countries.

📋 Description

• Own and elevate the end-to-end product design experience while leading a senior design function that reshapes how we create impactful, AI-driven learning products. • Shape and influence product vision, strategy, and cross-functional decision-making, ensuring design is a core driver in how we build products in the AI era • Lead, coach, and grow a team of senior product designers, building a high-performing design function that raises the bar on quality and impact • Partner closely with Product, Tech, and Pedagogy leadership to define solutions and priorities, ensuring strong alignment between user needs, business goals, and learning outcomes • Build and evolve scalable design practices and AI-enabled ways of working, increasing team efficiency, speed, and product quality • Own the end-to-end design quality and user experience, focusing efforts on the highest-impact opportunities while defining how UX is measured and contributing hands-on when needed

🎯 Requirements

• An experienced product design leader with a product-first mindset - able to think beyond design craft, identify high-impact opportunities, and prioritise based on user and business value • Deep passion for AI, with a drive to actively explore, challenge, and redefine how AI transforms product development, design roles, and ways of working • An entrepreneurial approach, thriving in ambiguity, taking ownership, and driving progress with speed • Strong leadership capability, able to challenge, inspire, and elevate a team while fostering a collaborative, high-performance environment • Strong communication skills, with genuine curiosity about people and a collaborative, low-ego approach, paired with the confidence to lead both teams and stakeholders

🏖️ Benefits

• ITP Pension Plan with Nordnet • Yearly budget of 5,000 SEK to spend on health-related services. • 30 days of paid vacation every year • Full pay sick leave starting on day 1 • Work remotely within Sweden

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