Kid’s Products Design Lead (Remote)

Description

Summary: NovaKid is seeking a Kids Products Design Lead to define and drive the creative quality of children's learning experiences across multiple products, leading a multidisciplinary team. Highlights: 1. High-impact leadership role combining creative vision and operational excellence 2. Shape a cohesive, distinctive, and scalable visual identity for kids' products 3. Champion the adoption of AI-powered creative tools to enhance efficiency 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.