About the Role
We are seeking a UX Designer to transform complex user insights into simple, accessible products while helping to stabilize our design function. You will be accountable for the entire design lifecycle in a specific product area and play a key role in our Design Operations (DesignOps) to evolve from "organized chaos" to a high-performing design engine.
Responsibilities
- Drive the design process using a "Dual-Track Agile" approach, learning and building in parallel.
- Deconstruct large ideas into lean experiments to quickly learn what works.
- Partner with Senior UX Designers and Design Leadership to refine processes, define Definition of Ready, streamline handoffs, and fix workflows.
- Contribute to and govern our Design System, focusing on component architecture and documentation.
- Lead workshops and FigJam sessions to align stakeholders.
- Support and lead design-specific syncs like Design Critiques and peer reviews.
- Work closely with Product Managers and Engineers, involving developers early in the process.
- Define and track UX metrics, finding creative ways to measure impact.
Requirements
- Ability to pivot when business needs shift and maintain composure when project scope changes.
- Proactively identify needs and rally people to move projects forward.
- Mastery of Figma (Auto-layout, Variables, Components).
- Comfortable using research tools like Askable or Maze.
- Proactively exploring new innovative ways to work in the AI space.
- Ability to know when to fight for perfect UX and when to deliver a good enough solution.
- Experience working in a SaaS environment or a company undergoing transformation.
- Systems thinking ability to understand the impact of changes across the ecosystem.
Skills
- Figma
- Auto-layout
- Variables
- Components
- Askable
- Maze
- Dual-Track Agile
- Design System
- Workshop Facilitation
- UX Metrics
Location
- Sheffield
- London
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Full time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Senior
Salary/Compensations
- Up to £51,000 per annum
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave rising to 30
- 5% pension after probation
- State of the art offices
- Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
- Free eye care cover
- Life Assurance
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- EAP (Employee assistance programme)
- Quarterly Tes Socials
- Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu
About the Company
- Tes is a global Edtech leader on a mission to empower schools and educators worldwide.
- We deliver EdTech solutions that give educators the tools to succeed.
- Our software and services help teachers and school leaders worldwide provide the best education to millions of children.
- We have over 13 million educators in our community and work with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries.
- We have been making a difference for over 100 years.
