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Pearson

Senior UX/UI Designer

🇺🇸 Hybrid - Hoboken, NJ

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $110K - $130K

💻 Product Development

🗓️ February 11th, 2025

Figma UX/UI

Edtech.com's Summary

Pearson is hiring a Senior UX/UI Designer. The role involves driving design excellence through research, journey mapping, wireframing, and high-fidelity design solutions. Responsibilities include prototyping, ensuring user-centric approaches, mentoring junior designers, and collaborating with the development team for seamless design integration. 

Highlights
  • Drive design excellence with research, journey mapping, and high-fidelity solutions.
  • Hands-on proficiency in Figma and design prototyping tools required.
  • Salary range: $110,000 - $130,000, based on experience and qualifications.
  • Minimum 6 years' experience in a Senior Individual Contributor role.
  • Lead design research, sprints, and ideation sessions.
  • Mentor junior designers and promote best practices.
  • Collaborate directly with engineers and product managers.
  • Advocate for user needs and design quality throughout the process.

Senior UX/UI Designer Full Description

Senior UX/UI Designer

Hoboken, NJ
Workplace Type: Hybrid
  • Job: PRODUCT MANAGEMENT
  • Schedule: FULL_TIME

Pearson
: Senior UX/UI Designer
Location: Remote

Pearson
Pearson is a design-centric product company whose mission is to have a direct relationship with millions of lifelong learners. As the the world’s learning company with more than 20,000 employees operating in 70 countries, we provide content, assessment, and digital services to learners, educational institutions, employers, governments and other partners globally. We are committed to helping equip learners with the skills they need to enhance their world of opportunities. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.

Senior UX Designer
We are looking for a Senior UX Designer with a portfolio rich in engaging marketing and eCommerce solutions, complemented by a process effectively communicated through presentation and storytelling.

Key Accountabilities
Driving Design Excellence: By performing research, journey mapping, wireframing, and crafting high-fidelity design solutions.

Prototyping and Validation: Take charge of designing and presenting high-fidelity solutions, and/or prototypes for validation and feedback, ensuring a robust and user-centric approach.

Smooth Hand-off and Oversight: Transition validated designs seamlessly to development teams, overseeing the implementation phase for alignment with the envisioned design.

Mentorship and Leadership: Informally guide and mentor junior designers, sharing best practices, processes, and methodologies to help support their growth.

Research: Experience leading and facilitating design research, design sprints & ideation sessions.

User Advocacy and Quality Assurance: Champion user needs throughout the design process, consistently advocating for high-quality, user-centric solutions.

Collaborative Integration: Collaborate actively with your design peers to ensure seamless integration of your work within our broader ecosystem.

Exceptional Skills: Demonstrate excellent communication, self-management, organizational, and presentation skills to effectively convey and advocate for design concepts.

Positive Collaborator: Embrace a highly collaborative nature, fostering a positive mindset that contributes to a dynamic team environment.

Who are you?
  • Minimum of 6 years' experience in a Senior Individual Contributor role.
  • Very hands-on: A Senior-level thinker who is exceptionally fast with Figma.
  • Excitement: Driven to create something exceptional.
  • Attention to detail: Ability to balance accuracy and efficiency.
  • Experience working autonomously and leading independent initiatives.
  • Strong design point-of-view and comfort challenging personal opinions.
  • Ability to translate conceptual thinking into tangible design solutions.
  • Effective communication of ideas and design decisions.
  • Craftsperson: Strong skills in UX/UI, proficient in Figma and design prototyping tools.
  • Experience in marketing and eCommerce experience design.
  • Experience contributing to established design systems/design language.
  • Experience collaborating directly with engineers and product managers in a fast-paced environment.

We're excited to hear from candidates of all experience levels! Don't worry if you don't tick every box—some of our best fits surprise us. Send in your application, and let our recruiters work their magic!

The salary for this full-time role falls between $110,000 and $130,000, based on experience and qualifications

Who we are:
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.

Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We want a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We strive for a workforce that reflects the diversity of our communities.

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