Head of Design

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🔥 18 hours ago

🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Anthology Inc

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1001 - 5000 employees

💰 Venture Round on 2023-01

Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Millions of students around the world are supported throughout their education journey via Anthology’s ecosystem of flagship SaaS solutions and supporting services, including the award-winning Blackboard® (LMS), Anthology® Student (SIS/ERP), and Anthology® Reach (CRM). Through the Power of Together, we are uniquely inspiring educators and institutions with innovation that is meaningful, simple and intelligent to help customers redefine what’s possible and create life-changing opportunities for people everywhere. www.anthology.com.

📋 Description

• Lead Blackboard’s global User Experience and Design organization • Own the vision and strategy for how users experience Blackboard LMS, Blackboard Illuminate, Ally, and institutional effectiveness solutions • Lead, grow, and inspire a diverse UXD organization across countries and time zones • Partner with Product Management and Product Development leadership throughout product planning, prioritization, and execution • Champion users through research, customer feedback sessions, and usability testing • Lead responsible adoption of generative AI across the design practice • Own design operations, including design systems, tooling, workflows, and quality standards • Ensure accessibility and inclusive design across all experiences • 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 • 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 design strategy experience connected 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 • 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; no visa sponsorship or immigration support • Preferred: experience in education technology or enterprise SaaS

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working hours to support business priorities and distributed teams • Equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer

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