Senior UX Designer

We are searching for a Senior UX designer to help us create accessible, engaging products and services that are meaningful to teachers and learners. As part of the UX team you design and validate user experiences for our digital solutions based on quantitative and qualitative data. You breathe and talk UX. You’re no stranger to apply your skills also on a strategic or service level or call upon them for facilitation and communicating design to stakeholders and direct UX colleagues alike.

👩‍🏫 Who are we?

For everyone who discovers. For everyone who grows. For everyone who performs and challenges themselves. For your smallest dreams and your biggest ambitions. Learning will take you further. From your first day at school to the next step in your career. Infinitas Learning is there for you and everyone who learns.

Infinitas Learning is a leading supplier of innovative and appealing educative products and services for education and learning. Infinitas Learning consists of four educative publishers in Europe: Noordhoff in the Netherlands, Liber in Sweden, Plantyn in Belgium, WSiP in Poland and LeYa in Portugal. At Infinitas Learning people have a passion to transform the way people learn. The goals is to offer flexible, leading solutions that support these new approaches of learning in the 21st century.

The Infinitas companies create an impressive range of educative resources that are used in private households, schools within primary, secondary or higher education or within professional institutions. The products include interactive software, online learning, e-books, audiobooks and printed textbooks, of which many are market leaders in their segment.

🏅 What are our values?

• Mission Driven: We reflect the values of the teachers and learners who use our products

• Open and Empowered: Creativity blossoms only when freed from fear

• Servant leaders: Leadership is approachable and supportive

• Diverse and Inclusive: We take strength from our diversity

• Reliable and Accountable: We do what we said we would, and take the responsibility we have in owning the products across ILPT seriously

Your role As a senior UX designer, you will enhance our educational platforms for primary and secondary education. You will primarily focus on our secondary education platform, while also collaborating with designers from the primary education team to ensure alignment across both platforms. You'll blend traditional and digital learning tools to improve user experience, working alongside a team passionate about impactful, user-centered design.

What you’ll do

• Lead through design: Use your expertise to convert complex educational challenges into clear, intuitive user interfaces. You will be directly involved in the conceptualisation through to the implementation stages, ensuring a seamless user experience.

• Own your projects: Initiate and oversee the development of new initiatives in collaboration with product managers and developers. Your role will involve frequent user interactions to gather insights and validate design decisions, ensuring our solutions are closely aligned with user needs.

• Collaborate across teams: Work closely with our cross-functional teams, including engineering, product management, and data analysis, to integrate and refine functionalities that enhance educational outcomes.

• Elevate our craft: Serve as a mentor within our design community, sharing your knowledge and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. Your insights will play a crucial role in advancing our design standards and practices.

• Drive user engagement: Develop strategies that increase user engagement and satisfaction. Your designs will directly contribute to the user-friendly nature of our platforms, making learning more enjoyable and effective.

Who we’re looking for:

• Proficient in Figma and experienced in creating user-focused designs.

• Ability to rapidly prototype your ideas/designs.

• Setting up and performing user research.

• Experience in projects that have a complex information architecture

• Ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and key stakeholders from all publishers.

• Experience in an international, remote working environment preferred.

• Excellent communication skills in English and at least one of these languages: Dutch, Swedish, French, Polish, or Portuguese.

• Extra points for experience in educational publishing or working directly with learners or teachers.

Benefits of joining us:

• Engage in meaningful work that shapes the future of learning.

• Collaborate with a diverse, talented team across Europe.

• Enjoy flexible work arrangements with competitive compensation and benefits.

• Work remotely as your primary option, with the flexibility to collaborate in person at publisher offices when needed.

• Frequent gatherings with the platform team, design community, and the broader ILPT organization.

How to apply: If you see yourself in this role, we’d love to hear from you! Send us your application, and let’s discuss how you can make a real impact at Infinitas Learning.

What to expect next:

• We'll review your application and aim to respond within five working days.

• Selected candidates will proceed to initial interviews with our design team members to discuss your experience and approach.

• A practical design assessment will be part of the interview process to evaluate your problem-solving skills.

Infinitas Learning is dedicated to equal opportunity and fair treatment during the recruitment process. Join us in our mission to transform the future of education.