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Head of Design (AI Builder)

Babbel

Skills

Required

  • design leadership
  • Design systems
  • UI craft
  • coaching designers
  • leading product design
  • AI tools
  • Claude
  • Code
  • Hands-on prototyping
  • SwiftUI
  • HTML / CSS / JS

Join Babbel Labs, an AI-first language learning company, as the Head of Design. In this hands-on design leadership role, you'll shape the product's direction, run discovery, and ensure high-quality delivery. You'll work closely with a small, experienced design team and collaborate with engineers, product managers, linguists, and language learning specialists. Enjoy a competitive salary, 30 vacation days, flexible working hours, and many other benefits.

Lead design across discovery and delivery, owning key design decisions for AI-first language learning experiences.

Design AI-powered learning experiences, shaping how learners interact with AI, from conversation and voice to feedback.

We are a learning company, inside and out, and we encourage you to apply even if you do not fit all the technical requirements — all candidates are assessed based on skills, qualifications, and our business need

Responsibilities

  • Coach and mentor the small, experienced design team, helping them share one set of AI-first design principles.
  • Clear communication. You work well with technical and non-technical partners, including specialists like linguists and learning designers

Requirements

  • Design systems know-how. A working knowledge of design systems and how they make teams faster and more consistent
  • Excellent UI craft and motion design. Learning happens moment by moment, so polished interfaces and purposeful motion are essential to a great learning experience
  • A coaching mindset. Experience coaching designers and raising a team's standards through example, feedback and shared practices
  • Comfort with ambiguity. You thrive on fast iteration and figuring things out as you go
  • Proven design leadership. Solid experience leading product design, with a record of shipping work that users actually adopted
  • AI fluency. You use AI tools like Claude Code as a real part of how you design, not an add-on
  • Hands-on prototyping in code. You're comfortable in SwiftUI and HTML/CSS/JS and can build things people can use and test