Head of Design

About the role

We are looking for a Head of Design to define and execute the next version of Migaku. This is not about incremental improvement. It is a full reset of product, brand, and experience. You will define the product and brand at a true inflection point. Migaku has already grown revenue 10x in the past year and plans to do so again this year. You will work on a product with a deeply engaged global community (over 20k on Discord). You will help work on something meaningfully more effective than existing language learning tools - our mission is to make people actually fluent. You will work directly with the Founder and a highly technical team to shape not just how Migaku looks, but how it works, how it grows, and how it spreads.

Responsibilities

• Own design end-to-end for Migaku across product, brand, and growth
• Redesign the core product experience from the ground up
• Translate complex language acquisition ideas into simple, intuitive interactions
• Create a design system that supports both usability and speed of iteration
• Shape a new brand identity that reflects the product's ambition and effectiveness
• Design for virality: how the product appears in social content, clips, and shared moments
• Work closely with engineering to ship quickly and refine through use
• Act as both a hands-on designer and a design leader

Requirements

• Strong experience designing consumer software products end-to-end
• Clear evidence of simplifying complex systems into intuitive user experiences
• Ability to move fluidly between product design, brand, and storytelling
• High taste and strong point of view
• Comfort working in ambiguity and building from scratch
• Experience shipping real products, not just concepts
• Especially Relevant Experience
• Designing learning tools, creator tools, or habit-forming products
• Building products with strong community or viral loops
• Creating design systems that scale quickly with small teams
• Bridging product design and brand expression in a cohesive way
• Working Style
• For Migaku , one third of the current team is located in Tokyo so ideally we'd have the Head of Design there as well. However, there's flexibility on location: remote APAC or EMEA can work, with a preference for regular overlap with Asia-based working hours.

Benefits

Additional Information

Lead a full reinvention of an immersive language learning platform for Migaku, a fast-growing Japanese company, shaping product, brand, and experience from the ground up to redefine how people achieve real fluency. Reporting to Founder & CEO Location: Tokyo (preferred) or Remote (APAC / EMEA with Asia overlap) Migaku is a radical new approach to language learning. It already has a devoted global community of 20,000+ serious learners. The next stage of growth requires rethinking, and redesigning, grounded in a deep understanding of how people actually acquire language.

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