Senior Product Designer, Core Tools

Get to Know QuillBot

QuillBot is an AI-powered writing platform with a bold mission: to reimagine the writing process. Every month, over 35 million students, professionals, and educators rely on QuillBot's tools to write more effectively, productively, and confidently. We believe great writing should be accessible to everyone, not just professional writers. From paraphrasing to summarizing, grammar checking to citation generation, our suite of tools enhances the writing experience from start to finish. As we continue expanding our platform, we’re focused on building a connected, intelligent, and seamless writing environment that supports users throughout their writing journey.

About the Product Design Team

At QuillBot, our design team sits at the intersection of creativity, craft, and impact. We’re a small, passionate group of designers obsessed with solving real user problems through thoughtful systems, elegant interfaces, and delightful moments. We champion quality, from visual aesthetics to usability, from deep user empathy to innovative interactions. We aren’t just following trends, we aim to set standards in design for AI writing tools.You’ll be joining a design culture that’s collaborative, fast-moving, and outcome-driven—where your ideas can go from concept to shipped in days, and your voice helps shape the product and the team.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end product design, from initial user research and exploration to final pixel-perfect delivery in close collaboration with product managers, engineers, researchers, and senior design leadership.
• Take a senior role in designing QuillBot’s next-generation writing editor, helping shape its core capabilities, look and feel, and how users interact with writing in an AI-enhanced environment.
• Partner with other designers to ensure the editor integrates seamlessly with our suite of tools, creating a unified, consistent, and delightful user experience across the product suite.
• Contribute to and evolve our design language system, balancing reuse of patterns with the thoughtful creation of new, scalable components.
• Advocate for user experience by deeply understanding user needs, behaviors, and the broader goals they’re trying to achieve, not just isolated feature usage.
• Craft experiences that bring originality, joy, and elegance to complex interactions, using motion, micro-interactions, and visual storytelling.
• Help nurture a culture of design excellence by actively participating in critiques, mentoring peers, and contributing to team rituals.

The Ideal Candidate

• Has 5+ years of experience designing consumer-facing digital products, ideally with complex user flows or productivity tools.
• Has a portfolio that showcases systems thinking, polished visual design, and user-centered processes.
• Understands and uses design systems, not just to maintain consistency, but to scale design across a growing product surface.
• Is self-directed, thrives in ambiguity, and moves quickly without sacrificing quality.
• Brings strong interaction and visual design skills, with a high attention to craft.
• Is a prototyper—whether through Figma, Claude, code, or motion, to quickly explore and test ideas.
• Writes well or values writing, understands how language shapes experience, and how writing and design inform each other.
• Has experience designing for AI-powered tools or is ready to use their understanding to help build the UX of emerging AI capabilities.
• Bonus: Uses AI in their design process, has front-end development skills.

Why Join Us?

• Work on a product with real, meaningful impact helping millions write better every day.
• Join a company that’s still growing fast, but already stable and profitable.
• Collaborate with a talented, mission-driven team that cares deeply about quality, speed, and innovation.
• Help shape the future of writing at the intersection of AI and creativity.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive salary & annual bonus
• Pension plan through the Zwitserleven Pension Fund
• A minimum of 33 days paid time off (including 7 public holidays and a day off on your birthday)
• A yearly personal development budget of €500
• Free consultations at OpenUp
• Discount and extra credits on a ClassPass monthly subscription
• A remote-friendly culture including working abroad for up to 3 months
• The flexibility to work from home, including a monthly working from home allowance of €60 per month
• Parenthood: minimum of 6 weeks fully paid partner leave & 16 weeks fully paid maternity leave
• Travel allowance: (NS business card or kilometre allowance of €0.23/km)
• Healthy lunch and snacks at the office
• Employee referral