Senior UX Design Director

Responsibilities

As a tenured UX manager and valued practitioner, you have always set a high bar and institutionalized best practices for UX/UI principles, data-backed customer research, and UI craftsmanship for your immediate product team and broader design org.
Please present 2-3 case studies that showcase your strategic product impact and design thinking practices.
Delivery and governance.
This position reports into the SVP of Design, and will partner with their VP of design of Higher Education across its keystone digital products:
- My Lab Mastery's (MLM) is the university instructor teaching platform, which includes AI-generated lesson planning, adaptive homework, advanced courseware tools, and gradebooks.
- Pearson+ is the student learning platform, which includes eTextbooks, study videos, AI chatbots, robust learning tools like homework, simulators, and quizzes in both desktop and mobile applications.
Partnering with Product/Eng/Program to bring customer-centric product strategies and northstar visions to life.
Transitioning from compelling MVP prototypes to functional product pilots and real product launches in the market.
Building trust-based relationships to influence your product, engineering, data, commercial and marketing counterparts, as well as with the other executive stakeholders.
Advocating for customer-centric design practices and upleveling UX/UI quality standards for the global design organization.
Facilitates cross-functional workshops and design thinking activities.
Executing on UI designs via user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and design systems with the support of multiple UX/UI designers teams.
Leading concept testing of journeys and features and usability testing of product delivery.
Within the Higher Education product org, you'll be paired with tenured learning science experts to collaborate with you, support alongside your team, and mentor you along your own learning journey.

Skills

Senior UX Design Director
We are looking for a strategic and hands-on Sr
UX Design Director with a UX/UI product portfolio, rooted in innovation and growth
You need experience in shipping complex digital products in large-scale B2C and B2B ecosystems
You'll have chartered transformative product strategies with user value and product market fit and designed user-centric experiences across cutting-edge modalities (e.g, web, mobile, voice, AI, VR/AR)
10+ years of relevant and demonstrable expertise in UX/Interaction Design
5+ years leading design managers (2+) or larger design teams (10+)
5+ years driving innovation or growth programs that ship complex product suites for B2C or B2B companies
Focus in producing multichannel UX/UI, compelling visions/prototypes around emerging tech (e.g., voice, VR, AR, AI), and scalable design systems
Experience in conducting qualitative and quantitative user research, facilitating workshops and creating prioritization frameworks to drive customer-led product strategies and roadmap priorities
Proficiency in collaborating with product, data, and eng partners, using agile product delivery model
Impact in creating UX/UI toolkits and standards and advocating best practices in smoother product
Proficiency in the latest design and prototyping tools (AI-powered tools are a bonus)
Involving specialists as needed for UX research, motion graphics/animation, illustration/iconography, design systems, etc

Benefits

💰 Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location
💼 The minimum full-time salary range is between $220,000 - $275,000 - This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here
🕒 Schedule: FULL_TIME