Chinese Learning Designer
What we're building
A language learning platform that empowers independent learners and treats teachers as first-class users.
Think Canva for language practice: we give teachers the templates, building blocks, and AI assistance to create effective exercises for their students—without starting from scratch or fighting a rigid system. For learners, the platform supports deliberate practice, real Chinese content, and long-term progress beyond beginner apps.
The role
You'll design the systems that make Chinese practice work—not write a textbook, but build the reusable pieces: exercise templates, suggested learning paths, reference structures, AI prompt patterns.
Day to day, that looks like:
Designing practice
- Create exercise templates: sentence building, comprehension checks, writing prompts, conversation scaffolds, role-play scenarios
- Design how learners practice tones, vocabulary in context, grammar patterns, and register (polite vs. casual, spoken vs. written)
- Evaluate AI-generated Chinese for correctness, naturalness, and appropriate tone
Curating content
- Find and vet authentic Chinese material (articles, videos, conversations) appropriate to different levels
- Build practice activities around real content—not just textbook examples
Structuring learning
- Organize vocabulary, grammar, and pragmatic topics into suggested paths by level
- Define "can-do" goals and skill progressions informed by real teaching practice and standards like HSK
- Create reference material for learners and teachers to customize their own exercises
Shaping teacher tools
- Help design what teachers see when they build exercises: what templates exist, what's customizable, what defaults make sense
- Identify teacher workflows and pain points from your own experience
- Test whether tools work for tutors, small classes, mixed-level students
Product research
- Participate in real lessons that inform product decisions
- Flag friction between what teachers need, what learners do, and what the product supports
- Give pedagogical and UX feedback grounded in actual teaching
You
- Native or near-native Chinese speaker
- Familiarity with both Simplified and Traditional Chinese characters
- Experience teaching Chinese to non-native learners (formal or informal)
- You've made your own materials before and have opinions about what works
- You can explain why something sounds natural, awkward, or rude in Chinese
- Curious about how AI and technology can support (not replace) teachers
- Comfortable with ambiguity and iteration
- Speak English at an intermediate level or higher, and want to continue learning
Helpful but not required: familiarity with HSK, interest in UX/product design, comfort with tools like Notion, Figma, Canva, or Obsidian.
What we offer
- Direct influence over both learner and teacher experience
- Close collaboration with the founder
- Flexible, async-friendly remote work
- Room to grow into lead LX, product, or prototyping roles
How to apply
Send an email to contact@celetris.com with:
- Brief introduction and your background teaching Chinese
- Examples of materials you've created (if available)
- What excites you about designing language learning systems
We're looking for teaching insight and curiosity, not perfect credentials. If you care about how Chinese is taught and want to shape that at a product level, we'd love to hear from you.