Anthology Careers

Description

Senior Product Designer

United Kingdom

The Opportunity: 

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Our mission is to empower educators and institutions with meaningful innovation that’s simple and intelligent, inspiring student success and institutional growth.

The Power of Together is built on having a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of our hiring practices and who we are as a company.

For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com. 

Are you passionate about creating innovative, intuitive products informed by customer insights? Do you have a mastery of craft to turn insights into something truly useful, usable and valuable? Can you inspire us by showing or prototyping what is possible?

Are you looking to drive meaningful change at scale? Millions of people across the world rely on our products every day. Help shape the future of education and AI innovation with an opportunity to work with a global edtech leader.

We’re seeking a passionate, talented Senior Product Designer to create products which are valuable, intuitive, and crafted to high standards. The role initially focuses on two key areas: product design on Blackboard, our market leading Learning Management System, and evolving our design system.

Primary responsibilities will include:

• Leading design projects, combining quant/qual research insights, rapid iteration, and testing to craft data informed, user centred solutions
• Taking broad, conceptual ideas and turning them into something useful, useable and valuable across mobile and web
• Prototyping, testing, and iterating. Jumping between ‘discovery’ mode (trying wild ideas and prototyping in whatever you are comfortable with) and ‘delivery’ mode (nailing the flow, interactions, motion and accessibility)
• Advocating for the user, valuing continuous discovery, and engaging with customers through research sessions, site visits, usability testing, focus groups and user conferences to inspire ideas and inform design decisions
• Addressing short-term design needs, and delivering value to users incrementally, while making strides towards the long-term vision
• Working collaboratively within product teams as a peer with product managers, developers and data scientists to bring your ideas to life, and contribute to the strategic product vision
• Evolving, expanding and driving adoption of our design system to create more consistent, on brand, responsive and accessible experiences
• Defining and documenting our visual design language typography, colour, iconography, components and patterns
• Regularly auditing products and the design system to identify and resolve inconsistencies and highlight opportunities to continuously improve design quality, usability and accessibility
• Being autonomous. Taking full ownership of your work and responsibility for every detail, every step of the way, from whiteboard sketching to what is finally shipped
• Taking an active role in our design community, sharing ideas, upskilling in how to best use AI and contributing to our lunch and learns

** Please include a link to your portfolio as part of your application. Only applications with portfolios links will be considered. Portfolio can be a link to website or a Google Drive folder (or equivalent).** 

The Candidate:

Required skills/qualifications:

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience
• At least 5 years as a product designer on both mobile and web products
• Excellent visual design skills as well as a solid UX design foundation
• Excel at designing simple, inclusive, elegant products, which consider all screen sizes from mobile, through to desktop
• Experience creating Design Systems or playing a significant contribution role
• Strong portfolio showcasing solid user centred design practice and design execution
• Experience running research such as usability testing
• Team player and exceptional communicator who simplifies complexity, tells compelling stories, and is comfortable running customer and senior level calls
• Knowledge of inclusive design and accessibility  
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Preferred skills/qualifications:

• Strong technical knowledge. Experience in partnering closely with developers, you understand the technical considerations of design and design system implementation
• Experience building Figma design system libraries ensuring they are accessible, scalable, and integrated into team workflows
• Experience designing and working with AI and machine learning  
  Solid understanding of HTML / CSS, and an understanding of web frameworks and React
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with remote, globally distributed teams, maintaining strong relationships across teams with diverse cultures and work styles 

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.

Anthology is an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.