Product Design Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

AI-Native • Design-Minded Builder • Customer Experience Owner

Overview:

We're looking for AI Design Engineers based in India to join our team! We are looking for AI-native individuals with a deep passion for UX and design who blend strong consumer instincts with the execution chops of a strong engineer. This role is perfect for builders who thrive at the intersection of user experience, visual design, rapid prototyping, and shipping polished, delightful, customer-facing features.

You'll own problems and product development end-to-end — from understanding the customer need to crafting an intuitive, beautifully designed solution to shipping fast, reliable, AI-powered experiences. You won't be confined to "product," "design," or "engineering" boxes. You'll do all three. And you'll move fast.

About Nerdy:

At Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) - the company behind Varsity Tutors - we’re redrawing the blueprint of learning. Our Live + AI™ platform fuses real-time human expertise with proprietary generative-AI systems, setting a new bar for measurable academic impact at global scale.

We recruit the kind of technologists and operators you’d bet on as solo founders - people who turn ambiguous problems into shipping code, iterate faster than markets move, and compound their advantage with every data point. In an era where great employees can deliver 10-times the leverage of the merely good, we back those who play to win.

Fortune favors the bold. Join us.

How we compete:

• AI-Native at every level - From the CEO to day-one hires, everyone builds and ships with generative AI. If you’re not wielding AI, you’re not done.
• Entrepreneurial velocity - Move at founder speed, prototype in hours, and measure in real user outcomes. Slow teams die.
• Free-market rigor - Ideas rise or fall on merit and results - no committees, no politics, no cap on upside.
• Full-stack ownership - You design, build, and run what you ship; accountability is a feature, not a bug.
• Reward for contribution - Pay rises with impact, not years. Outstanding results earn outsized rewards. We evaluate bothwhatyou achieve andhowyou achieve it: living our leadership principles and using AI effectively are formally measured and rewarded.
• Relentless exploration - Push the frontier of generative AI in live learning and - because only the paranoid survive - questioning every legacy assumption along the way.
• Apolitical - You stay focused on mission-aligned outcomes, not distractions or unrelated causes.

If you’re a technically minded builder who thrives on open competition, personal responsibility, and the chance to redefine how the world learns - while continually stretching the limits of what generative AI can do - come do the most ambitious and rewarding work of your career here. Learn more at nerdy.com.

Nerdy’s shareholder letters below explain our latest products and strategy:

• Q2-2026 Shareholder Update
• Q1-2026 Shareholder Update
• Q4-2025 Shareholder Update

Requirements:

Qualifications:

• Strong front-end engineering skills (React or similar), with a demonstrated eye for visual design, interaction design, and typography. 
• Demonstrated ability to own a design problem from concept — wireframes, flows, prototypes — through shipped, polished solution. 
• Experience building customer-facing products, design systems, internal tools, or prototypes with a strong emphasis on usability and visual craft. 
• Comfort working across product, design, and engineering boundaries — writing specs, designing user flows, creating mockups/prototypes, and building the solution. 
• Experience using AI tools to accelerate design and development (e.g., AI design/prototyping tools, chat-based coding assistants, automation tools). 
• Portfolio or examples demonstrating strong UX/UI sensibility and shipped, customer-facing design work. 
• Excellent communication skills across cross-functional product, design, and engineering teams. 
• A customer-obsessed mindset — grounding design decisions in user needs, usability research, and real behavior. 
• Ability to move quickly, make sound design and engineering tradeoffs, and iterate based on user feedback and evidence. 
• Familiarity with design tools (e.g., Figma or similar) and cloud environments (any major provider). 
• Comfort analyzing usage data and qualitative feedback to identify friction points and guide design improvements. 
• Experience working in fast-paced, highly iterative environments.

Responsibilities:

Identify and deeply understand customer experience problems through user research, data, feedback, and direct observation. 

Define AI-powered features or UX improvements, including writing crisp problem statements, user flows, wireframes, and success criteria. 

Prototype and build end-to-end solutions, spanning front-end, interaction design, and AI-powered logic. 

Design and refine intuitive, visually polished interfaces that make complex AI-powered features feel simple and delightful. 

Integrate AI into products thoughtfully, prioritizing user value, usability, and reliable outcomes over novelty. 

Collaborate closely with product, design, and engineering to deliver high-quality, well-designed features quickly. 

Own quality and craft, ensuring what you ship is fast, reliable, accessible, and delightful to use. 

Set up measurement and feedback loops (usability testing, analytics, user feedback) to continuously improve the experience. 

Operate like an owner, accountable for both the design quality and the impact of what you build.

Unleash Your Potential at Nerdy:

At Nerdy, you'll earn your success through meritocracy and exceptional outcomes. Our benefits reward performance and initiative:

• Competitive USD-Benchmarked Compensation:Earn a market-leading rate set in U.S. dollars, paid to you in local currency.
• 100% Remote (Home Country Only):Work from anywhere in your home country—no relocation required, no borders crossed.
• Flexible Time Off:Our flexible PTO lets you recharge on your own terms and when you need it the most.
• Local Holiday Pay:We honor your nation’s official holidays with paid time off—celebrate what matters to you.
• Continuous Learning:Get a free, all-inclusive learning membership for you and your household—including 1-on-1 tutoring hours, unlimited on-demand classes, and access to our full suite of learning products and services.
• Supercharge with AI:Gain exclusive access to cutting-edge AI tools that boost your productivity, making you feel almost super-human (cape not included).
• Feedback-Rich, Collaborative Culture:Tap into regular training, peer reviews, and a team that treats every team member as a vital collaborator and owner in our success.
• Make a Global Impact:Your expertise fuels an innovative platform used by learners around the world—be part of something transformative.

The Bottom Line:

If you're driven by impact, energized by ownership, and excited to help shape what's next, you'll thrive here. We move fast, think big, and reward those who deliver. This isn't a traditional corporate environment - it's a place to do the most meaningful work of your career.