Specialist, Design

Position: Specialist, Experience Design
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Product

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United Kingdom Workplace:
Hybrid

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Specialist, Experience Design Division: PQAssessment & Qualifications Delivery

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United Kingdom This role aligns with positions commonly known in the external market as UX Designer, Product Designer or Interaction Designer.

About Pearson At Pearson we ‘add life to a lifetime of learning’ so everyone can realise the life they imagine. We do this by creating vibrant and enriching learning experiences designed for real-life impact. Pearson was founded in 1844 and has been built on our ability to grow with and adapt to a constantly evolving market. Our employees are dedicated to creating high-quality, digital-first, accessible and sustainable resources for lifelong learning.

About UK Assessment & Qualifications We are the UK's largest awarding body and we are regulated by Ofqual (England), CCEA Accreditation (Northern Ireland) and Qualifications Wales (Wales). We offer academic and vocational qualifications that are globally recognised and benchmarked, with educational excellence rooted in names like Edexcel and BTEC. In 2025, we issued 6.5 million grades to candidates worldwide.

About the jobThe Experience Designer role operates as a professional individual contributor within product and delivery teams. The role applies strong foundational experience-design knowledge to moderately complex work, creating user journeys, wireframes and interactive prototypes, conducting usability reviews and contributing to the ongoing development of design systems. Working with growing autonomy, the Experience Designer turns external client, customer and operational needs into accessible, usable and consistent digital experiences across products and services.

Working across multidisciplinary teams including Product Owners, Business Analysts, Engineers, Architects, Testers, Service Owners and Scrum Masters, the Experience Designer ensures proposed solutions reflect user needs and remain technically feasible. The role contributes evidence-based design recommendations, incorporates research findings and feedback into design iterations, and identifies usability issues before implementation.

The Experience Designer is responsible for delivering assigned design outcomes to the required quality and timescale, while maintaining design-system integrity and producing clear, accessible documentation to support effective development handover. The role does not include people-management responsibilities.

About youYou can demonstrate experience designing accessible digital products, services or workflows in an agile environment. You are comfortable converting user and business needs into clear user journeys, wireframes and interactive prototypes, and using usability findings to improve proposed solutions. You can manage moderately complex design tasks independently while recognising when additional guidance or escalation is needed.

You bring a customer-focused, collaborative and detail-oriented approach. You can explain design choices clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders, respond constructively to feedback and balance user needs, business outcomes, accessibility and technical constraints. Experience working directly with external clients and users to understand needs, test concepts and communicate design decisions is required.

Key Responsibilities Design accessible and usable experiences for moderately complex product and service initiatives, from early concepts through to development-ready designs.

Gather and interpret external client, customer, user and operational needs in collaboration with Product Owners, Business Analysts and other stakeholders.

Create user journeys, task flows, wireframes, interface…