Advanced Specialist, UX Designer
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This role involves building the future of AI-enabled education as a Senior Visual Designer on the Design Systems team, establishing a unified design system across Pearson's Higher Education product portfolio. The Advanced Specialist, UX Designer will design the visual language, components, and patterns that will shape how millions of learners and educators interact with our products.
Responsibilities
- Design high-fidelity UI components, patterns, and templates in Figma for our unified design system
- Establish visual standards for typography, color, iconography, spacing, and layout across web and mobile platforms
- Redesign key screens and user flows for Pearson's learning platforms
- Demonstrate how design system components combine to create cohesive product experiences for students and instructors
- Craft micro-interactions, transitions, and motion specifications with meticulous attention to detail
- Partner with Creative Technologists to ensure designs translate effectively into code (React components in Storybook)
- Participate in visual QA and implementation review
- Imagine the next generation of interaction patterns and contexts like voice user interfaces and multi-modal interactions (AR/VR)
Requirements
- 5-7 years of visual design experience
- Portfolio demonstrating UI design for component-based systems
- Expert proficiency in Figma (components, variants, auto-layout, libraries)
- Strong foundation in typography, color theory, hierarchy, and composition
- Ability to think in scalable patterns rather than one-off executions
- Collaborative mindset with clear communication skills and receptiveness to feedback
- Proactive, outcome-oriented approach that balances creative exploration with systematic rigor
Qualifications
- 5-7 years of visual design experience with a portfolio demonstrating UI design for component-based systems
Nice to Have
- Experience with motion and/or prototyping software (e.g., After Effects or Framer)
Skills
* Required skills
Benefits
About Pearson
Pearson is the world's leading learning company, with 18,000+ employees across 70 countries, dedicated to helping people realize the life they imagine through learning. They are undergoing a deep digital and AI transformation in Higher Education, reimagining learning as agentic, adaptive, and human-...