Avatar for Skillwhimsy
Skillwhimsy is an AI-powered learning platform that helps parents create, localize, and share intera

Founding Product Lead

  • $6k – $12k • 2.0% – 8.0%
  • |Remote (
    Everywhere
    )
  • |4 years of exp
  • |Cofounder
Reposted: 2 months ago
Hires remotely in
Everywhere
Remote Work Policy

Remote only

Company Location
Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

RelocationNot Allowed
Skills
Product Management
User Research
Startups
AI
Edtech
UXDesign
ChatGPT
Hiring contact
János Kukoda
Founder
Budapest
image

About the job

Founding AI Product Lead (AI Education)

We are building an AI-powered learning platform for children.

Unlike traditional e-learning applications, our goal is not simply to deliver educational content. We are building an AI tutor that can guide students through personalized learning sessions, ask adaptive questions, evaluate understanding, and help parents shape their child's learning journey.

The MVP is already functional, including payments and an early version of the AI tutor.

What makes this role different?

This is not a traditional Product Manager position.

We are not looking for someone whose primary responsibility is maintaining a backlog, writing Jira tickets, or coordinating stakeholders.

The core challenge is designing how an AI tutor should teach.

You will help answer questions such as:

  • How should the AI guide a student through a lesson?
  • When should it ask questions?
  • How should learning checkpoints work?
  • How should difficulty adapt to the student?
  • How should the AI react when a student struggles?
  • What creates engagement and long-term learning habits?

Your mission

During the first months, your primary responsibility will be product discovery and validation.

You will:

  • Conduct interviews with parents and students
  • Identify real learning challenges and unmet needs
  • Validate product hypotheses
  • Analyze user behavior and feedback
  • Help define what the product should become
  • Design and improve AI tutoring experiences
  • Create and test new learning flows
  • Work closely with the technical founder to prototype and validate ideas

We expect you to actively shape the product direction, not simply manage an existing roadmap.

What success looks like

Success in this role is not measured by the number of tickets completed.

Success means:

  • discovering valuable user insights
  • identifying product-market fit opportunities
  • improving the AI tutoring experience
  • increasing engagement and retention
  • helping define the long-term product vision

Ideal candidate

You may be a product manager, founder, educator, researcher, AI enthusiast, or someone who has built products before.

What matters most is that you:

  • are excited about AI
  • understand how LLM-based products work
  • enjoy talking to users and discovering problems
  • can think in systems, flows, and behaviors
  • are comfortable experimenting and iterating quickly
  • want to build something meaningful in education

Experience with ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Lovable, v0, or similar AI tools is a strong plus.

Compensation

  • Initial paid engagement
  • Flexible working hours
  • Remote-first collaboration
  • Long-term compensation options
  • Equity / token participation
  • Potential path toward a long-term founding role

We're looking for someone who wants to help define how AI-powered education should work, not someone who simply wants to manage a backlog.

About the company

Skillwhimsy company logo
Skillwhimsy is an AI-powered learning platform that helps parents create, localize, and share intera1-10 Employees
Learn more about Skillwhimsy image

Founders

János Kukoda
Founder
Budapest
image
View the team image