Senior UX Designer
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
United Kingdom
Design and Arts
Skilled Worker
Job posted on March 11, 2025
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Meet the recruiter Stephanie Pass stephanie.pass@cambridge.org
Salary: £52,100 - £69,650 per annum
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid (40-60% of time in the office)
Contract: Permanent/Full-time
Do you have experience creating intuitive and engaging user experiences involving information architecture and visual design?
Does the prospect of researching, designing and delivering experiences on one of our largest customer-facing touchpoints excite you? If so, we have a newly created Senior UX Designer position in our Global Marketing team that we'd like to talk to you about. This role will lead and deliver the UX strategy for our International Education marketing websites, ensuring that solutions are customer-validated, accessible, and coherent. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand user needs, business goals, and technological constraints, leading the design process from concept to implementation.
Your mission is to ensure our web marketing efforts effectively attract, engage, and convert our target audiences. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role Key responsibilities will include:
About you You will bring a fresh perspective to the team, believe in accessible design and have strong collaboration and leadership skills. We use Figma to build and manage our Design System and design our products and services, it's not essential to be familiar with this but it is preferred. To excel in this role, you will possess:
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards and benefits We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Tuesday 25th March 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing Monday 31st March 2025. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities. #LI-SP
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- Salary: £52,100 - £69,650 Location: Cambridge Country: UK Business Unit: Cambridge International Vacancy Type: Permanent Closing Date: 25 March 2025
Meet the recruiter Stephanie Pass stephanie.pass@cambridge.org
Salary: £52,100 - £69,650 per annum
Location: Cambridge/Hybrid (40-60% of time in the office)
Contract: Permanent/Full-time
Do you have experience creating intuitive and engaging user experiences involving information architecture and visual design?
Does the prospect of researching, designing and delivering experiences on one of our largest customer-facing touchpoints excite you? If so, we have a newly created Senior UX Designer position in our Global Marketing team that we'd like to talk to you about. This role will lead and deliver the UX strategy for our International Education marketing websites, ensuring that solutions are customer-validated, accessible, and coherent. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to understand user needs, business goals, and technological constraints, leading the design process from concept to implementation.
Your mission is to ensure our web marketing efforts effectively attract, engage, and convert our target audiences. We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role Key responsibilities will include:
- Lead and deliver the UX Strategy: Drive the UX strategy for our online marketing presence, collaborating with the Web Marketing team to design innovative solutions that deliver on our design standards and customer experience principles.
- Research and Design: Lead the research and design process for online marketing solutions, projects, and larger programs, planning for the future.
- User-Centric Approach: Establish a user-centric approach to designing, delivering, and measuring our web marketing experiences and journeys, working closely with our web product owners.
- Customer Journey: Demonstrate a clear understanding of how our online marketing presence fits into the broader teaching and learning journey, working to deliver coherence with the wider digital ecosystem.
- Develop Artefacts: Create artefacts such as customer journeys and service blueprints, contributing to a library of design patterns through our Schools Design System.
About you You will bring a fresh perspective to the team, believe in accessible design and have strong collaboration and leadership skills. We use Figma to build and manage our Design System and design our products and services, it's not essential to be familiar with this but it is preferred. To excel in this role, you will possess:
- A leading understanding and appreciation for user-centered design.
- Experience of researching and refining complex information architectures.
- Ability to act on and incorporate feedback.
- Being able to provide constructive criticism and feedback in design crits.
- An understanding of human-computer interaction design.
- Clear communication and presentation skills.
- Strong time and project management.
- Experience of working in Agile methodologies.
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards and benefits We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now. We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being Tuesday 25th March 2025 and interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing Monday 31st March 2025. Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
Why join us Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration. Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it's safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background. We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities. #LI-SP