Lead Specialist, UX Designer
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As a Lead Visual Designer on the Design Systems team, you will shape the visual foundation for Pearson's unified design system across their Higher Education product portfolio. This high-impact role involves establishing the visual language and designing production-ready components that influence millions of learners and educators.
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the visual design language for the unified design system, establishing standards for typography, color, iconography, spacing, layout, and motion across web and mobile platforms
- Design comprehensive, production-ready component libraries in Figma, ensuring accessibility, flexibility, and documentation for implementation
- Lead the visual design direction for major product redesigns, creating high-fidelity reference screens and templates for student and instructor experiences
- Collaborate with Creative Technologists to translate visual designs into code (e.g., React components in Storybook), conducting visual QA and creating motion specifications
- Lead design critiques, mentor other designers, and build influential relationships with product management, engineering leadership, and stakeholders to advocate for design quality
- Imagine next-generation interaction patterns like voice user interfaces and multi-modal interactions (AR/VR) to support the product vision
Requirements
- 7-10 years of visual design experience with a portfolio demonstrating exceptional craft in UI design, component-based design systems, and end-to-end product experiences across web and mobile platforms
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma, including advanced component architecture, library management, and design token systems
- Strong skills in motion design for product interfaces, with proficiency in After Effects, Framer, and/or Principle (or similar tools)
- Proven experience designing, building, or contributing to design systems at scale
- High ownership and effective communication across diverse audiences, with strong judgment about maintaining system consistency versus advocating for exceptions
Qualifications
- 7-10 years of visual design experience with a strong portfolio in UI design, component-based design systems, and end-to-end product experiences across web and mobile platforms
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-...