Senior Product Designer – Design Systems

🕒 April 14

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

💵 £100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Arbor Education

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51 - 200 employees

📚 Education

🤝 B2B

💰 Private Equity Round on 2020-12

Education • B2B • Software

Arbor Education is a rapidly expanding company dedicated to transforming the way schools operate by freeing staff from administrative tasks and enhancing collaboration. Utilizing a Management Information System (MIS), Arbor Education provides tools to improve school processes and educational outcomes for over 5,000 schools. Their mission-driven team, consisting of ex-teachers, education technology engineers, and specialists, is passionate about providing effective solutions to improve the educational sector. Founded in 2011, Arbor Education is driven by a commitment to innovation and the well-being of teachers and students, along with a dedication to diversity and inclusion in its workforce.

📋 Description

• Own the strategic direction and governance of the design system, including roadmap planning, contribution frameworks, and driving adoption across product teams. • Lead, mentor, and manage designers within the team, setting quality standards and supporting their professional growth. • Explore AI-enhanced tooling to accelerate design exploration to rapidly generate and test ideas. • Design and prototype wireframes, user flows, and high-fidelity UI mockups to communicate design ideas effectively. • Create intuitive, visually appealing, and accessible user interfaces for our users. • Develop and maintain a deep understanding of user needs, business objectives, and the education sector to create impactful design solutions. • Plan, conduct and analyse both quantitative and qualitative user research to make data-driven design decisions. • Translate complex workflows and requirements into simple, effective, and scalable user experiences. • Effectively communicate design rationale, process, and decisions to stakeholders and cross-functional teams. • Understanding how AI-powered tools will help extend Design capabilities beyond traditional boundaries.

🎯 Requirements

• Strong experience in user-centered design, from research to final execution. • Extensive experience building, scaling, and maintaining a design system. From foundational tokens and components through to team enablement. • Proven experience leading and managing designers, with a track record of developing team capabilities and maintaining high design standards. • Experience working in agile environments with cross-functional teams including engineering, product management, and marketing. • Strong decision-making skills, adaptability, and the ability to influence teams. • A proactive approach to learning and applying new design methodologies. • A curious and collaborative mindset, able to think on your feet, likes to move fast.

🏖️ Benefits

• The chance to work alongside a team of hard-working, passionate people in a role where you’ll see the impact of your work everyday. • A dedicated wellbeing team who champion initiatives such as mindfulness, lunch n learns, manager training, mental health first aid training and much more! • 32 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays). This is made up of 25 days annual leave plus 7 extra company wide days given over Easter, Summer & Christmas • Life Assurance paid out at 3x annual salary • Comprehensive wellness benefit provided by AIG Smart Health, which provides a 24/7 virtual GP service, Mental health support, Counselling, and personalised Health Checks • Private Dental Insurance with Bupa • Salary sacrifice Pension provided by Scottish Widows • Enhanced maternity and adoption leave (20 weeks full pay) and paternity (6 weeks full pay) pay • 5 free return to work maternity coaching sessions, helping you adapt to this new exciting time of life! • Access to services such as Calm and Bippit (financial wellbeing coaching) • All of our roles champion flexible working and we are happy to discuss what this means to you • Social committees that plan team, office and company wide events to bring people together and celebrate success • Dedicated professional development training budget (CPD courses, upskilling resources, professional memberships etc) • Volunteer with a charity of your choice for a day each year • Dog friendly offices!