About Us
At Cambly, we're on a mission to bring high-quality English education to people around the world. English is a critical tool that unlocks new opportunities at home and abroad. Research by the World Economic Forum shows that job seekers with exceptional English compared to their country's average earn 30-50% higher salaries.
Role Overview
We're seeking a senior-level digital product designer to help evolve the Cambly experience across all platforms. You'll work directly with product managers and engineers to develop world-class user experiences. As part of a cross-functional team, you'll collaborate frequently with engineers, researchers, analysts, and other stakeholders throughout all phases of the product development cycle.As a product designer at Cambly, you'll help shape experiences that literally change lives—enabling students to pursue international education, advance their careers, and connect with people across cultures.
You'll work on challenges that combine educational pedagogy with consumer technology in a fast-paced, mission-driven environment where your designs will reach users worldwide.
What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of experience designing digital products (UI/UX)
- A portfolio showcasing strong visual design skills—typography, color theory, layout, information hierarchy, and high-quality UI/UX execution
- Proven ability to build effective cross-functional relationships, especially with engineering and product teams
- Excellent project management skills with experience handling multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Experience contributing to and working within design systems
- Strong user-centered design practices and methodologies
- Clear communication skills to articulate design decisions and rationale to diverse stakeholders
- Experience in environments using A/B or multivariate experimentation
- A proactive, curious mindset with a passion for continuous learning
- Experience mentoring junior designers
What You'll Do
- Design intuitive, accessible, and visually appealing user experiences for our global audience
- Partner with product and engineering managers to define roadmaps, set metric goals, design experiments, and synthesize learnings
- Advocate for users throughout the product development process
- Lead the design process from concept through implementation, including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI
- Iterate based on user feedback, research insights, and performance data
- Collaborate closely with engineers to ensure high-quality implementation that matches design intent
- Provide clear documentation that effectively communicates user flows to partners and stakeholders
- Contribute to our design system while ensuring consistency across products
- Maintain proactive communication with team members and cross-functional partners
- Educate non-designers on design processes, practices, and principles
Work on projects like…
- Building a tutor discovery experience that is engaging and effective at connecting students with the perfect tutor
- Expanding our marketplace offerings to capture new learner and tutor segments
- Creating a classroom experience where lesson content is generated by AI to be tailored to the learner's needs
- Building post-lesson activities that are curated to fit each learner's areas for improvement
- Optimizing learner flows to drive increased bookings
Tools & Technologies
- Strong proficiency in design and prototyping tools (we use Figma, Adobe CS, and Google Workspace)
- Coding knowledge is a plus but not required
Why Cambly?
- Impact: Your work will directly influence the way millions of people learn English worldwide.
- Growth: Join a fast-paced company where your contributions will shape the future of language learning.
- Mission-Driven Culture: Be part of a company that values education, innovation, and making a difference.
Life at Cambly includes…
- $60M VC backed - check out why Bessemer invested in us
- Hybrid First Company (Office days: M, T, & Th)
- 100% of Medical, Dental, and Vision paid
- 401(k) with up to 4% match
- 20 days of PTO
- 10 company holidays plus end-of-year shutdown
This role is based in San Francisco, and the expected base salary range for this position is as shown below. The actual base pay is dependent upon a variety of job-related factors such as professional background, training, work experience, business needs and market demand. Therefore, in some circumstances, the actual salary could fall outside of this expected range. This pay range is subject to change and may be modified in the future. All full-time employees are also eligible for equity compensation and for benefits.
Compensation Package
$175,000-$230,000 USD Base Salary + Pre-IPO Stock OptionsAlso: We are proud to be a highly inclusive company and an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We believe in order to thrive, businesses need a diverse team and leadership. We welcome every background, identity, abilities, and mindset to join us on our mission to make high-quality English education for all. Everyone is welcome here.Compensation Range: $175K - $230K
