Advanced Specialist, UX Designer

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Role Title :
Advanced Specialist, UX Designer
Description :
This role aligns to Senior UX Designer

Location:

Hoboken (Hybrid)

The Role
We're looking for a UX Advanced Specialist with a strong foundation in user-centered design to shape engaging experiences for our higher education products. You're someone who operates through curiosity, collaboration, and craft excellence, ready to grow your strategic thinking while delivering high-quality designs that support learning outcomes.
You'll partner closely with content, product, and engineering teams and be responsible for:
Designing end-to-end user experiences across web and mobile platforms, from concept through implementation
Creating high-fidelity designs including user flows, interactive prototypes, and detailed specifications that enable smooth engineering handoff
Contributing new patterns and components to our design system with consideration for scalability, accessibility, and consistency
Planning and conducting user research and usability testing to inform design decisions, validate solutions, and iterate based on insights
You will be challenged in an organization that values vision, execution, and persistence. You will take ownership of your design work by solving complex user problems with clarity, empathy, and attention to detail. Product Designers at Pearson are embedded within product teams that are deeply collaborative, and each member is directly responsible for the team's success.
What You'll Own
As a critical partner on our team, you will lead design for major product areas and full user journeys. You'll collaborate with content, product, research, and engineering teams throughout the product development process to advocate for user needs and shape experiences that drive learning outcomes.
Lead design for complex, end-to-end user experiences, from initial discovery through launch and iteration
Partner with product managers to define and frame design problems, identify opportunities, and establish clear success metrics
Create high-fidelity designs including user flows, screens, and interactive prototypes with exceptional craft and attention to detail
Design and document reusable components and patterns for the design system with consideration for scalability, accessibility, and cross-platform consistency
Lead user research (or co-create with a researcher) initiatives including planning, facilitation, and synthesis, translating insights into actionable design and product recommendations
Present design work and strategic recommendations to senior leadership, building conviction for design decisions that shape product direction
Facilitate design workshops and collaborative sessions that build shared understanding and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders
Partner with product and engineering to scope design work, define timelines, and establish success criteria for initiatives
Leverage data and analytics to validate design decisions and iteratively improve experiences through A/B testing and experimentation
Mentor junior designers through design crits, pair designing, and thoughtful feedback that accelerates their growth
Design for AI-driven teaching and learning experiences (working with learning science), considering ethical implications and pedagogical effectiveness
About You
You bring 5-8 years of product design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates craft excellence, strategic thinking, and measurable impact on user experience and business outcomes. You're someone who leads through exceptional design, collaboration, and user advocacy. Additionally, you are:
A strategic designer and thinker who brings pragmatic judgment to every decision, conducting user research, advocating for design quality, or navigating technical constraints, you excel at reducing ambiguity and defining clear paths forward through thoughtful problem-framing and communication
Equally comfortable designing pixel-perfect interfaces and shaping scalable design systems, always…