Senior Product Designer (Design Systems)

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Overview: Remote – United Kingdom. This role is open only to candidates residing in England or Scotland due to operational constraints. Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data‑informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals. We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce.

Role: As a Senior Product Designer, you’ll join a globally distributed design team at a pivotal time, playing a foundational role in creating a new design language and system from the ground up based on our branding. You’ll co‑own the design system working closely with your partners in the engineering team, sitting at the intersection of design, product management, and engineering. You’ll help us rethink how we build and deliver experiences, including AI‑enabled prototyping, so we can ship better on‑brand, consistent, responsive, accessible experiences at speed.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Defining, evolving, expanding and driving adoption of our design system and design language including typography, colour, iconography, components and patterns.
• Driving a governance framework to ensure the design system is used correctly.
• Leading design projects, combining quant/qual research insights, rapid iteration, and testing to craft data‑informed, user‑centered solutions.
• Taking broad, conceptual ideas and turning them into something useful, usable and valuable across mobile and web.
• Prototyping, testing, and iterating.
• Jumping between ‘discovery’ mode and ‘delivery’ mode.
• Advocating for the user, valuing continuous discovery, and engaging with customers through research sessions, site visits, usability testing, focus groups and user conferences.
• Addressing short‑term design needs, and delivering value to users incrementally, while making strides toward the long‑term vision.
• Working collaboratively within product teams as a peer with product managers, developers and data scientists.
• Being autonomous and taking full ownership of your work.
• Taking an active role in our design community, sharing ideas, upskilling in how to best use AI and contributing to our lunch and learns.

Portfolio Requirement: Please include a link to your portfolio as part of your application. Only applications with portfolio links will be considered.

Required Skills / Qualifications:

• Relevant degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 5 years as a product designer on both mobile and web products.
• Excellent visual design skills as well as a solid UX design foundation.
• Experience creating Design Systems or playing a significant contribution role.
• Strong portfolio showcasing solid user‑centered design practice and design execution.
• Experience running research such as usability testing.
• Team player and exceptional communicator.
• Knowledge of inclusive design and accessibility.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Preferred Skills / Qualifications:

• Dedicated experience building design systems or being a significant contributor.
• Strong technical knowledge.
• Experience partnering closely with developers.
• Experience building Figma design system libraries.
• Experience designing and working with AI and machine learning.
• Solid understanding of HTML/CSS, and an understanding of web frameworks and React.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively work with remote, globally distributed teams.

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required.