About Eequ

Eequ is a marketplace and booking platform for any learning that takes place outside of school or university. But our vision goes far beyond that.

We believe there’s an alternate future for education - one that is radically decentralised.

Decentralised education means an infinite number of learning experiences can be offered, tried, changed, and reinvented continually. It allows for infinite philosophies, pedagogies, learning styles, and interests. It empowers the smallest initiatives with the same tools as the largest. It fosters diversity, agility, and innovation. Our product is a tool to describe ideas for teaching, Searching for Mentors, coordinating groups and keeping records.

This approach means more people can earn an income doing what they love and sharing their wisdom with their communities.

It will be a long life of learning.

What Makes Eequ Different

At Eequ, every person contributes end-to-end—from user support and direct customer insights to wireframing, prototyping, and live deployment. We are a 10-person team where engineers, designers, and founders work side by side, with no layers of management or bureaucracy. Our designers are not pixel pushers or conceptual strategists—they are product owners who see their impact directly and quickly as customers use new features. This is an unusual, hands-on opportunity for someone who wants full ownership, full visibility, and direct accountability for design decisions.

The Role – What You’ll Actually Do

Product Ownership from Day One

Customer Immersion: Spend significant time on our support desk and during client onboarding. You’ll sit with real users, field their issues, observe friction, and turn insight into action—so nothing you design is theoretical.
Feature Leadership: Consolidate and triage feature requests, prioritise user pain points, and deliver complex product improvements all the way from ideation to final release. You identify Gaps. You Solve. You ship.
Self-Service Funnels: Join sales and onboarding calls—not just to improve conversion but to design and automate journeys that make our product truly self-serve. Observe, prototype, test, iterate—own the outcome.
Figma Design Systems: Architect, build, and continually expand our Figma libraries and scalable component systems used across browser and (soon) app experiences. We expect depth—reusable components, smart logic, efficiency.
App Transition: Once our browser version is solid, you’ll lead the shift to mobile app UX—building the foundation, setting standards, and helping us scale the product experience.
Team Leadership by Example: You will not manage from the sidelines; you will set the tone for design excellence in a team of five by doing real work daily, mentoring, and ensuring design is always close to real user needs.
Multi-Disciplinary Persona: Expect to switch between support, sales, account management, and design during sprint cycles. If you want a static seat, this is not for you.

Who Is the Right Fit?

SaaS Experience: 3–4 years direct hands-on UI/UX design in SaaS environments—know how to build user flows for web products, ideally with experience in marketplaces, booking platforms, or process automation.
Figma Expert: Not just familiar—deeply skilled in building complex, scalable Figma design systems and libraries from scratch. Can teach others, document logic, and re-factor based on feedback.
Frontline Mindset: Thrives on speaking to users, troubleshooting live problems, and extracting insights through conversation—not just from analytics dashboards.
Driver of Change: Relishes ownership, is energized by ambiguity, prioritises ruthlessly, and wants their work to be central to product evolution.
Personable & Confident: Can actively contribute across disciplines, build trust, and communicate clearly with internal team and external customers.
Startup Mentality: Ready for the reality of small teams—rolling up sleeves, growing with the company, solving problems that aren’t in any job description.

Why This Is Unusual

Most UX roles insulate designers from customers, delegate feature leadership, and involve endless strategy meetings. At Eequ, designers engage daily with customers, own features end-to-end, and make rapid, meaningful impact in a collaborative startup. The expectation is “doer, not manager”—real work, real freedom, real growth.

The Opportunity

This role is a launchpad for designers who want their work to define the product—and who aspire to senior design leadership. You’ll have autonomy, ownership, and direct impact, with mentorship and progression based on what you deliver.

To apply:
Complete our application form, sharing some examples of your recent work.