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.