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Advanced Specialist, UX Designer

Pearson 🇺🇸 Hoboken, NJ 07030, United States of America

Onsite $110,000 - $135,000 Full-time Senior

Lead the end-to-end design of complex user experiences for higher education products across web and mobile platforms. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to create high-fidelity designs, maintain design systems, and integrate AI-driven learning experiences.

Responsibilities

  • Designing end-to-end user experiences across web and mobile platforms
  • Creating high-fidelity designs including user flows, interactive prototypes, and detailed specifications
  • Contributing new patterns and components to the design system
  • Planning and conducting user research and usability testing
  • Leading design for major product areas and full user journeys
  • Collaborating with content, product, research, and engineering teams
  • Presenting design work and strategic recommendations to senior leadership
  • Facilitating design workshops and collaborative sessions
  • Mentoring junior designers

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of product design experience
  • Portfolio that demonstrates craft excellence, strategic thinking, and measurable impact on user experience and business outcomes
  • Experience designing AI-powered experiences is a strong plus
  • Strategic designer and thinker who brings pragmatic judgment to every decision
  • Equally comfortable designing pixel-perfect interfaces and shaping scalable design systems

Benefits

  • Annual incentive program
  • Benefits package (details available on the company website)

Key Skills

User-centered design User experience design Product design AI-powered experience design Design systems User research Usability testing Interactive prototyping High-fidelity design Design thinking Strategic thinking Collaboration Communication Problem-framing Design crits Pair designing Mentoring Cross-functional collaboration Agile Scrum Design leadership UX design UI design Human-centered design Socratic principles Critical thinking Pedagogical rigor

About 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. That’s why our c. 20,000 Pearson employees are committed to creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. We are the world’s leading learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. For us, learning isn’t just what we do. It's who we are.

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