Senior Designer
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Summary
Senior Product Designer leading design end-to-end for a teaching-and-learning product team: running discovery, research with students and teachers, prototyping, and shipping alongside a PM and engineers. Core focus: interaction/visual design, prototyping, user research, and accessibility in content-heavy education interfaces.
We are looking for a Senior Product Designer to lead the design of one of the product teams in teaching and learning. You will work directly with a product manager and engineers as the designer on the team, taking work from discovery through to delivery.
- Working with a Design Lead and designers across other product teams, you will:
- Drive the design of your product team, from understanding the problem to shipping and iterating
- Run research with students and teachers so that design decisions are based on evidence
- Keep your product team consistent with the wider product ecosystem
- This role reports to the Design Lead.
What You Will Do:
- Lead design for your product team end to end, including discovery, flows, prototypes, specifications, and iteration after launch
- Work with your PM and engineers to shape scope, make trade-offs, and ship
- Plan and run research and usability testing, and combine the findings with behavioural data
- Work with education technology and curriculum specialists so designs support how students learn, including how content and UI work together
- Use and contribute to shared patterns, and align with designers from other product teams, as well as with designers from other teams when there is a need to do so
- Take part in critiques and support other designers through feedback
What We Are Looking For:
- At least 8 years in digital product design, with a portfolio showing complex products shipped
- Strong interaction design, visual design, and prototyping skills, including evidence of designing for accessibility and content-heavy interfaces
- Experience owning design for a product area and working closely with PMs and engineers
- Hands-on experience planning and running user research and usability testing
- Sound judgement in ambiguous situations, and the ability to explain your design decisions clearly
- Attention to detail combined with an eye for consistency across products
- Thoughtful, intentional use of AI tools in your design workflow
Nice to Have:
- Experience designing for education or learning platforms
- Experience doing research with children or young people
- Familiarity with the public sector or large-scale platforms