UX/UI Designer

UX/UI Designer

Location: Malta (Hybrid Preferred)

Reports to: Head of Product

Company: Notey Inc.

About Notey

Notey is an AI-powered music learning platform transforming real instruments and voices into video game controllers. By combining machine learning, adaptive learning systems, and engaging gameplay, Notey helps students learn music more effectively while making practice something they genuinely enjoy.

Founded by Grammy-nominated musicians, educators, engineers, and technology leaders, Notey serves students, teachers, schools, and districts across multiple countries. As we continue to scale internationally, we are seeking exceptional talent to help build the future of music education.

The Opportunity

Notey is seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer to help shape the user experience, interface design, and product feel of an AI-powered music education platform used by students, teachers, schools, and families.

This individual will work closely with Product, Engineering, Education, Marketing, and Customer Success to translate learning goals, gameplay concepts, and user feedback into intuitive, engaging, and polished digital experiences.

The ideal candidate combines strong product design skills, excellent visual judgment, startup adaptability, and a passion for technology, education, gaming, music, or AI.

Responsibilities

Product Design & User Experience

• Design intuitive, engaging, and accessible user experiences across Notey's web, mobile, and game-based learning products.
• Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, interface systems, and polished production-ready designs.
• Translate product requirements, learning objectives, and gameplay concepts into clear user journeys.
• Support usability improvements for students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
• Maintain consistency across Notey's product experience, visual language, and interaction patterns.

Product & Engineering Coordination

• Work closely with Product and Engineering leadership to align design priorities with development timelines and release schedules.
• Participate in sprint planning, backlog reviews, design reviews, and product rollout discussions.
• Prepare clear design specifications, component notes, and handoff materials for engineering.
• Support feature launches by reviewing implementation quality and resolving design questions.
• Monitor design-related blockers and escalate issues when necessary.

User Research & Feedback

• Help gather, organize, and interpret feedback from students, teachers, schools, parents, and internal stakeholders.
• Use customer insights, analytics, and usability observations to improve the product experience.
• Develop prototypes and design tests to validate new features before development.
• Support interview, survey, and feedback processes when design input is needed.

Cross-Functional Operations

• Coordinate design initiatives across Product, Engineering, Education, Marketing, Customer Success, and Growth.
• Ensure alignment between strategic product priorities and day-to-day design execution.
• Maintain design documentation, workflows, assets, and operational processes.
• Support product, marketing, and sales materials when brand or interface design input is needed.

Process Improvement

• Develop and refine design systems, templates, component libraries, and documentation standards.
• Improve design-to-engineering handoff processes and cross-department collaboration.
• Introduce tools and best practices that improve visibility, consistency, and accountability.
• Support implementation of product quality, usability, and performance reporting systems.

Stakeholder Management

• Communicate design rationale clearly to leadership and key stakeholders.
• Prepare design summaries, mockups, prototypes, and presentation materials for internal reviews.
• Coordinate with contractors, agencies, freelance contributors, and implementation partners when required.
• Support investor, grant, and strategic partnership materials when product design visuals are needed.

Team Leadership & Coordination

The UX/UI Designer will coordinate design work across multiple departments, including:

• Product
• Engineering
• Education
• Marketing & Growth
• Customer Success
• Business Development

The UX/UI Designer may also coordinate design execution involving external contractors, agencies, freelance contributors, and strategic implementation partners. While this is not initially a people-management role, the successful candidate will be expected to lead design initiatives, influence stakeholders, and build processes that support future organizational growth.

Qualifications

Required

• 3-7 years of UX/UI, product design, interaction design, or related professional experience.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating digital product design, user flows, interface design, and shipped product work.
• Proficiency with Figma or similar design and prototyping tools.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design, accessibility, and responsive design principles.
• Excellent written and verbal communication abilities.
• Ability to work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment.

Preferred

• Experience in SaaS, EdTech, Gaming, AI, music technology, or consumer mobile products.
• Experience designing for children, education, teachers, schools, or gamified learning products.
• Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and developer handoff workflows.
• Experience working with distributed international teams.
• Motion, illustration, game UI, or brand design experience is a plus.

Compensation

Base Salary: €40,000-€60,000

Equity Participation: Optional based on experience

Hybrid / Flexible Work Environment

Why Join Notey?

• Work alongside Grammy-nominated musicians, educators, engineers, and AI experts.
• Help build a category-defining company at the intersection of music, gaming, AI, and education.
• Play a key role in scaling an internationally growing startup.
• Directly influence how the company executes, grows, and reaches students, teachers, and families around the world.

How To Apply

Please send the following to jobs@notey.co:

• A short note explaining why this role interests you

• Examples of your previous work and/or CV

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