Head of Design

Good Maven

2d • Remote

About The Position

Lead a full reinvention of an immersive language learning platform for Migaku, a fast-growing Japanese company, shaping product, brand, and experience from the ground up to redefine how people achieve real fluency. Migaku is a radical new approach to language learning with a devoted global community of 20,000+ serious learners. The next stage of growth requires rethinking and redesigning, grounded in a deep understanding of how people actually acquire language. This role is a full reset of product, brand, and experience at a true inflection point for the company, which has already grown revenue 10x in the past year and plans to do so again this year. The Head of Design will work directly with the Founder and a highly technical team to shape the product's functionality, growth, and reach.

Requirements

• Strong experience designing consumer software products end-to-end
• Clear evidence of simplifying complex systems into intuitive user experiences
• Ability to move fluidly between product design, brand, and storytelling
• High taste and strong point of view
• Comfort working in ambiguity and building from scratch
• Experience shipping real products, not just concepts

Nice To Haves

• Designing learning tools, creator tools, or habit-forming products
• Building products with strong community or viral loops
• Creating design systems that scale quickly with small teams
• Bridging product design and brand expression in a cohesive way

Responsibilities

• Own design end-to-end for Migaku across product, brand, and growth
• Redesign the core product experience from the ground up
• Translate complex language acquisition ideas into simple, intuitive interactions
• Create a design system that supports both usability and speed of iteration
• Shape a new brand identity that reflects the product’s ambition and effectiveness
• Design for virality: how the product appears in social content, clips, and shared moments
• Work closely with engineering to ship quickly and refine through use
• Act as both a hands-on designer and a design leader

Benefits

• Opportunity to define the product and brand at a true inflection point
• Work on a product with a deeply engaged global community
• Build something meaningfully better than existing language learning tools

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed