Head of Design

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🔥 13 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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📋 Description

• Lead Blackboard’s global User Experience and Design organization • Own and evolve the design vision and strategy for Blackboard LMS, Blackboard Illuminate, Ally, and institutional effectiveness solutions • Lead, grow, and inspire a diverse UXD organization across multiple countries and time zones • Partner with Product Management and Product Development so design informs product planning, prioritization, and execution • Champion users through research, customer feedback sessions, and usability testing • Lead adoption of generative AI across the design practice and establish responsible-use standards • Own design operations, including design systems, tooling, workflows, and quality standards • Ensure accessibility and inclusive design across products • Build an agile culture of rapid iteration and continuous learning • Define roles, responsibilities, and ways of working across design, product management, and development • Present design strategy, research insights, and solutions to executives, customers, and industry audiences • Manage budget, resourcing, and priorities • Adjust working hours to support distributed teams and business priorities • Travel up to 20% for teams, customers, and company events

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience • At least 15 years of experience in user experience, product design, or a related field • Significant experience leading design leaders and individual contributors • Experience building and scaling design organizations of 10+ professionals across Product Design, research, documentation, and accessibility • Experience leading diverse, geographically distributed teams across multiple countries, regions, and time zones • Executive-level experience defining and refining design strategy and connecting design to measurable user and business outcomes • Hands-on, everyday fluency with generative AI design technologies such as Figma Make, Claude Design, Claude Code, and other LLM-based tools • Deep expertise in Figma, prototyping, and design systems • Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, usability, and accessibility • Expertise engaging customers and users through design research, testing, and iterative feedback loops • Experience delivering simple, elegant solutions to complex problems in highly agile environments • Strong leadership skills and ability to create a collaborative, inclusive, high-performing team culture • Flexibility to work outside standard hours when needed across time zones • Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills • Experience with WCAG accessibility standards • Fluency in written and spoken English • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the country where the role is based and maintain that authorization throughout employment • No visa sponsorship or immigration support provided • Preferred: experience in education technology or enterprise SaaS

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours as needed to support business priorities and a distributed team • Travel up to 20% to support teams, customers, and company events • Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employment practices

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