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AI learning startup seeks senior (or founding) UX/UI designer that loves food 🥘, loves learning, and will lead design for our early-stage team.
Hello there! 👋
We’re Parsnip, an AI learning startup founded by Andrew and Dan, two PhDs from Harvard and Stanford. Our mission is to combine science, engineering, and human-centered design to create a better way for people to learn new knowledge and skills — anytime and anywhere — that’s as fun as “leveling up” in a game.
Parsnip’s first product has been called the “Duolingo for cooking” and has 4.9⭐ in the App Store, rave user reviews, and over 80k downloads across iOS and Android. Under the hood, we’re also building a revolutionary new LLM-powered, knowledge graph-based learning system that will teach far more than just cooking, to anyone in the world, in a personalized way.
We’re looking for a product-centric UX/UI designer with a breadth of experience, a love of food, excitement for AI, and empathy for humanity to join us on our journey to both build this mobile app and the novel AI system that underpins it. This designer will work with us to bring the joy of cooking and a love of learning to as many people as possible.
Our app!
We’ve been featured on the App Store!
We’ve been featured on the App Store!
A birds-eye view of the AI that we’re building…can’t wait to tell you more!
Own Parsnip’s design system: Build on our existing design language to deliver a consistent user experience across our mobile app, website, and marketing materials, and in alignment with product and business goals.
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Conceptualize UX for a substantial AI system: Collaborate with scientists and engineers to conceptualize a web frontend for our knowledge graph-based AI learning platform, working with us in particular on data visualization and interaction design. You’ll also develop an intuitive understanding of how our AI system works and how to make it user-friendly.
Create, iterate, and ship: Design user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups for our mobile app and/or AI system, iterating quickly and trying many new ideas along the way.
Collaborate with engineers: Work closely with our fantastic engineering team to ship your designs quickly, participating in project management as needed to help move things forward.
Understand our users deeply: Talk to our users, conduct user research, and create prototypes to guide product development from a design perspective.
Contribute beyond just design: While design is your specialty, you also enjoy getting involved in broader company discussions, contributing to product strategy, content, or marketing when necessary.
Pick up new tools: while you’ll primarily work in Figma, you’re comfortable picking up other tools for animation, prototyping, and other needs outside of design.
Document and communicate: Clearly articulate design choices, thoughtfully document your work, and communicate effectively both orally and in writing.