Description
Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)
Remote – United Kingdom
Location: This role is open only to candidates residing in England or Scotland, due to operational constraints.
The Opportunity:
Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals.
We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company.
For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit www.anthology.com.
The Role
As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll join a globally distributed design team at a pivotal time, playing a foundational role in creating a new design language and system from the ground up based on our branding.
You’ll co-own the design system working closely with your partners in the engineering team, sitting at the intersection of design, product management, and engineering. You’ll help us to rethink how we build and deliver experiences, including AI-enabled prototyping, so we can ship better on-brand, consistent, responsive, accessible, experiences at speed.
You’ll use the design system you build to design new features within Blackboard such as AI powered learning and the future of assessment.
Blackboard is an industry-leading learning platform. The quality of the experience matters deeply, and this is a rare opportunity to help define and shape how Blackboard will look, feel, and scale for years to come.
Primary responsibilities will include:
- Defining, evolving, expanding and driving adoption of our design system and design language including typography, colour, iconography, components and patterns
- Driving a governance framework to ensure the design system is used correctly
- Leading design projects, combining quant/qual research insights, rapid iteration, and testing to craft data informed, user centered 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
- 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). Ensure the portfolio link in your resume/CV is clickable in PDF view, and if there is password protection, include the access information within your resume/CV. **
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 centered design practice and design execution (a portfolio link is required in your application)
- 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:
- Dedicated experience building design systems or being a significant contributor.
- 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 through to product code.
- 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.
