Kid’s Products Design Lead (Remote)

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


What we’re looking for

  • 3+ years experience in a senior UX/UI Design role within product, animation, gaming, edtech, children’s media, or a related field
  • Proven success leading and developing multidisciplinary creative teams
  • Strong expertise in art direction, visual storytelling, animation production, and digital asset creation
  • A strong eye for brand, with experience creating consistency across multiple products or platforms
  • Competent knowledge of AI tools for creating visual and/or audio assets, with the ability to apply them in practical, high-value ways
  • Experience championing new tools, workflows, and ways of working that improve speed and efficiency
  • Excellent planning, prioritisation, and stakeholder management skills
  • Confidence working cross-functionally with both creative and non-creative partners
  • A passion for creating joyful, imaginative, high-quality experiences for children

What we offer:

  • Fully remote work.
  • A chance to shape the future of AI-driven education.
  • A fun, dynamic team that loves building innovative products.
  • Unlimited holidays – because we trust you to deliver.
  • Bonuses and stock options – we grow together.

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