# Head Of Design at Quizlet

- Company: Quizlet
- What the company does: Backed by USV.
- Company website: https://quizlet.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $212K to $289K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quizlet-inc/778a5a6d-6dd7-4732-9f24-da87adf20092
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/quizlet-head-of-design/

## About the role

This role has a deliberate arc. You'll join as a hands-on principal designer: for your first several months, your job is to get your hands dirty shipping the future of Quizlet — setting the visual and experiential direction of our next-generation learning experience and building it yourself, using AI tooling that lets a single designer produce working, production-quality prototypes at a pace that used to require a team.

## What they're looking for

- 15+ years of product design experience, including consumer products at significant scale, with a portfolio demonstrating principal-level craft and strong visual taste
- Proven systems design ability: you've designed and maintained design systems spanning multiple surfaces that other contributors could pick up and run with
- Fluency operating at both altitudes — setting design strategy and creative direction, and personally executing polished work at high velocity when the workload demands it
- An AI-first design practice: you already use AI tools to design, prototype, and ship faster, and you're eager to push that further
- Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally — navigating difficult conversations and competing priorities across product, engineering, and marketing with low ego and high effectiveness
- Comfort with the arc of this role: hands-on IC first, leadership second, in a small team where everyone builds

Tags: Design