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:
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.
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:
What You'll Get
Pearson is on a mission to build a direct, lifelong relationship with millions of learners around the world. As the worlds leading learning company, with 18,000+ employees across 70 countries, we reach learners at critical moments of growth, through content, assessment, and digital experiences that shape education, careers, and opportunity at a global scale.
Now, Higher Education is entering its next chapter. Were in the midst of a deep digital and AI transformation...reimagining learning as agentic, adaptive, and human-centered. Our teams are designing intelligent learning products that dont just deliver information, but actively coach, challenge, and partner with learners, grounded in Socratic principles, critical thinking, and pedagogical rigor.
This is a rare moment to shape the future of learning. Designers at Pearson are helping define how AI shows up in education with intention, ethics, and craft. We are creating experiences that evolve alongside tomorrows students, instructors, and institutions. From agentic study companions to AI-powered course creation tools, were building systems that amplify curiosity, agency, and impact on a global scale.
Ready to make an Impact?
Apply now and help shape the future of learning.
Compensation at Pearson is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and specific location. As required by the California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York State, New York City, Vermont, Washington State, and Washington DC laws, the pay range for this position is as follows:
The minimum full-time salary range is between $110,000 - $130,000.
This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program, and information on benefits offered is here.
Applications will be accepted through 19th February . This window may be extended depending on business needs.
Who we are:
At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to help people realize the life they imagine through learning. We believe that every learning opportunity is a chance for a personal breakthrough. We are the world's lifelong learning company. For us, learning isn't just what we do. It's who we are. To learn more: We are Pearson.
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. Employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit and business need. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status or any other group protected by law. We actively seek qualified candidates who are protected veterans and individuals with disabilities as defined under VEVRAA and Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act.
If you are an individual with a disability and are unable or limited in your ability to use or access our career site as a result of your disability, you may request reasonable accommodations by emailing TalentExperienceGlobalTeam@grp.pearson.com.
Job: UX Design
Job Family: PRODUCT
Organization: Higher Education
Schedule: FULL\_TIME
Workplace Type: Remote
Req ID: 22609
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