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About the Role
Squla combines technology, gaming, and child psychology to design digital learning experiences that expand children's worlds. As a Product Designer, you will research the needs of children, parents, and teachers, explore and test new concepts, and collaborate with the team to bring ideas to life. Your primary strengths will be in research, exploration, and testing, complemented by your design skills to realize these concepts.
Responsibilities
- Researching the needs of children, parents, and teachers.
- Exploring and testing new concepts.
- Collaborating with the team to develop ideas.
- Conducting user research, including speaking with children, parents, and teachers, visiting schools, and combining observations with behavioral and usage data.
- Translating insights into opportunities and ideas.
- Explicitly stating assumptions and choosing appropriate experiments and prototypes to investigate concept understandability, appeal, and value.
- Developing promising ideas into journeys, flows, interactions, and visual designs, with attention to usability, accessibility, and consistency.
- Collaborating with Engineering to translate designs into working product experiences.
- Potentially 'vibecoding' to make changes to product code, with review by Engineering.
- Using feedback, tests, and usage data to assess design effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
- Collaborating with colleagues from Product, Engineering, Education, Data, Marketing, and Design.
- Participating in the design guild within Futurewhiz for discussions, knowledge sharing, and growth.
Requirements
- 3+ years of experience as a Product Designer, UX Designer, or UX/UI Designer.
- Experience designing and delivering digital products in a multidisciplinary team.
- Ability to conduct independent research: formulate research questions, choose appropriate research methods, execute, and translate findings into design choices.
- Understanding the difference between what users say, what they do, and what can be concluded from it.
- Exploring multiple ideas before choosing a direction and using prototypes for rapid learning.
- Clear explanation of choices, openness to feedback, and responsibility for work quality.
- Ability to 'vibecode' and use AI design tools to create concepts, working prototypes, and product adjustments, critically evaluating outcomes and ensuring quality and feasibility with Engineering.
- Good command of Dutch and English, both spoken and written.
- Ability to conduct research with Dutch-speaking children, parents, and teachers and clearly share insights with English-speaking colleagues.
- Portfolio showcasing the journey from research to insight, concept, and validation, including choices made and lessons learned.
- Experience with research on children, EdTech, digital consumer products, or game-based learning is a plus.
- Must have a valid work permit for the Netherlands/EU.
Skills
- Product Design
- UX Design
- UI Design
- Prototyping
- User Research
- Concept Validation
- Figma
- Vibecoding
- AI Design Tools
Location
- Amsterdam
Work Type
- Hybrid (minimum 50% in office)
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of relevant experience
Salary/Compensations
- €4300 - €5300 per month (based on a 40-hour work week)
Benefits
- 24 vacation days + 1 'truancy day' (day off) + 3 assigned vacation days
- Collective pension
- Collective health insurance
- Annual learning budget of €600 for professional development
- Unlimited access to external coaches via Inuka Coaching
- Unlimited access to Goodhabitz for professional and personal growth
- Lifetime access to StudyGo and Squla accounts
- Office located next to Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena station
- Swapfiets or public transport business card (if living >7km from office)
- MacBook for work
- Option for Payroll Giving to contribute to a good cause
- Healthy lunches at the office
- Unlimited good coffee, fresh fruit, and snacks
- Culture Crew organizing activities (outings, pub quizzes, ski trips)
About the Company
- Futurewhiz is a B Corp.
- Futurewhiz builds digital learning products that help children and young people grow.
- Brands include Squla and StudyGo, supporting hundreds of thousands of students.
- Combines commercial growth with social impact.
- Squla helps primary school children learn through games, quizzes, and interactive exercises aligned with the Dutch curriculum.
- Futurewhiz is a passionate and diverse team united by a shared mission: to help children grow in their learning process and empower them with personalized education.
- Culture is open and authentic, fostering a sense of belonging.
- Platforms are for everyone, and so is the workplace.
- Diversity in backgrounds, ideas, experiences, and perspectives is valued.
- Committed to a diverse and inclusive culture.
Equal Opportunity
- Our platforms are for everyone, and that also applies to our workplace.
- The strength lies in our different backgrounds, ideas, experiences, and perspectives.
- We embrace each other's differences and create an authentic work environment where everyone can be themselves.
- We are committed to a diverse and inclusive culture, which starts in our office and extends across all our platforms – and everyone is welcome on this journey.
- We invite you to apply, even if you don't meet all the requirements but are enthusiastic.
- Be yourself; we embrace the diversity of all our colleagues and are genuinely curious about your unique perspective.