Principal Product Designer

learnatnoon.com; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 250,000 - 450,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-based bonus

21 days of annual leave

Full premium Medical coverage

Job summary

Noon is seeking a Senior/Principal Product Designer who will own the end-to-end student experience, primarily the student app, including AI tutor interactions, games, and classroom features, within Saudi schools. You will drive design from research to shipped screens in a fast, AI-driven setting.

You will work directly with product managers and engineers, shaping experimentation practices and ensuring designs meet local needs rather than global best practices, with autonomy and impact in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years in UX/product design with consumer-facing mobile-first focus.
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design from research to shipped screens.
• Experience running user research across cultures and contexts.
• Ability to create clear artifacts (wireframes, prototypes, specs) and communicate design decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own the student app end-to-end, including flows, IA, prototypes, UI, and handover to engineering.
• Design with a Saudi-context lens; adapt patterns to local needs rather than generic best practices.
• Run rapid experiments and contribute to building Noon's experimentation practice.
• Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers in a fast, AI-native environment.
• Create engaging, game-like activities that teach while entertaining students.

Skills

User research leadership

Mobile-first design

Interaction design

Prototyping & wireframing

AI-assisted design

Cross-functional collaboration

Figma

Tools

Figma

Prototyping tools

Job description

About Noon

Noon is a Saudi EdTech company. Noon Track runs inside schools: a hybrid programme that prepares students for Qudrat (قدرات) and Tahsili (تحصيلي), the national university-admission exams. Our students are 15 to 17 years old. Noon is becoming an AI-native company, department by department, and the number of schools we serve is growing. We believe every student deserves world-class teachers. And to make it happen, we’re reimagining everything about education: from cutting-edge tech to peer learning and physical spaces that spark curiosity.

• Hear about our vision directly from our CEO here.

• Learn more about us[here]

The role

You will be the one designer who owns the student experience. Primarily that means the student app: where students study, work with an AI tutor, answer questions, and take part in activities, including games and head-to-head duels on a topic. You will also shape parts of the live classroom experience.

This is a Senior/Principal-level individual contributor Product Designer role. There is no design team underneath you and no manager drawing your roadmap. You take a problem from the first student conversation to the shipped screen, and you decide what to look at next.

Why this role

• One owner of the whole student experience, with a direct line to leadership.

• Speed: with AI in the workflow, ideas go from research to release in days, not quarters.

• An experimentation practice being built from the ground up, with you shaping it.

• A company expanding into more schools, with a long-term ambition to match.

What you will do

• Spend real time with students in Saudi schools. Interviews, focus groups, classroom observation. Turn what you hear into design decisions, and go back to check them.

• Design for Saudi Arabia, not for the generic "best practice" app. Patterns that work in London or San Francisco often fail here. You know why, and you can show it in your work.

• Own the student app end to end. Flows, information architecture, prototypes, final UI, and the handover to engineering.

• Design activities students want to come back to, games and duels included, with learning as the gate: an activity that is more fun but teaches less is a regression.

• Run experiments. State a hypothesis, build the variants, agree the metric, and read the result honestly. You will help build the experimentation practice, not just use it.

• Work AI-native. Use AI tools for generation, prototyping and production so your time goes to research and judgement. We care about the quality of your decisions, not how many pixels you pushed by hand.

• Work directly with the product manager and engineers. Short loops, fast releases, no layers.

About you (To be successful in this role, you should have):

• Roughly 5 years of experience in UX, product design experience. We care less about the number and more about how many people you have interviewed and what you did with it.

• A research practice you can describe in detail: how you recruit, what you ask, how you synthesise, how it reached the product.

• A portfolio of projects that demonstrate your creativity and delivery of results through great consumer-facing mobile-first experiences

• Proficiency in using various tools and techniques to create and communicate your design ideas, such as sketches, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, etc.

• Experience in conducting user research and testing in different contexts and cultures, using both qualitative and quantitative methods

• A strong sense of empathy, curiosity, and creativity, and a willingness to learn and experiment

Why Noon?

• Real impact — your work directly affects how thousands of students learn every day.

• Speed and autonomy — small team, big problems, zero bureaucracy.

• AI-native culture — we don't just talk about AI, we build with it daily.

• Well-funded — Series B closed, substantial recurring revenue, and accelerating.

• Mission that matters — every student deserves world-class teachers. We're making it happen.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive base salary, we offer:

• Performance-based bonus

• 21 days of annual leave

• Full premium Medical coverage, including Family Dependent