Lead Product Designer - Student Experience & AI

Noon Academy; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Noon Academy is seeking a Senior Principal-level Product Designer to own the student experience across the app and live classroom, from research to shipped screens. You will lead end-to-end design decisions in a hands-on IC role with direct impact on leadership and product outcomes.

You will design for Saudi schools, build a robust experimentation practice, and shape AI-assisted workflows to accelerate learning. This role emphasizes impact over hierarchy and requires deep user empathy.

Qualifications

• 5 years of UX/product design experience with user research across contexts.
• Portfolio of consumer-facing mobile-first experiences.
• Experience conducting user research and testing in diverse cultures using qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Strong empathy, curiosity and creativity; willingness to learn and experiment.

Responsibilities

• Spend real time with students in Saudi schools.
• Turn interviews into design decisions and validate them.
• Design for Saudi Arabia, not generic best practices.
• Own the student app end to end: flows, information architecture, prototypes, final UI, and handover to engineering.
• Design engaging activities, games, and duels that teach through fun.
• Run experiments with hypotheses, build variants, set metrics, and read results honestly.
• Work AI-native, using AI tools for generation, prototyping and production.

Skills

UX design

Product design

User research

Prototyping

Communication

Tools

Sketching

Wireframes

Prototypes

Mobile-first design

Job description

Noon Academy is seeking a Senior Principal-level Product Designer to own the student experience across the app and live classroom, from research to shipped screens. You will lead end-to-end design decisions in a hands-on IC role with direct impact on leadership and product outcomes.

You will design for Saudi schools, build a robust experimentation practice, and shape AI-assisted workflows to accelerate learning. This role emphasizes impact over hierarchy and requires deep user empathy.