Location: Hybrid (with regular travel required to our Exeter office)
Term: Permanent, full-time (40 hours per week)
Salary: £40,000 - £45,000 per annum, plus generous company benefits
Closing Date: 2nd May 2023
Are you a talented, creative, UI/UX Designer who shares our passion for improving the future of education?
Are you keen to help students, teachers, and parents by designing engaging, intuitive and impactful products which transform the quality of learning in schools?
We are looking for someone to join our UI/UX team, to help us on our mission to improve life opportunities of 5 million children by 2030.
In this incredibly varied role, you will go from conducting user research and running user testing sessions, to working closely with our leaders to create engaging experiences. Your work will help to inform and shape our products to support teachers and inspire learners.
What you will be doing:
- Delivering high quality UI/UX product designs, as a key member of the multidisciplinary Sparx UI/UX team
- Designing and conducting user research sessions with teachers, heads of department, parents and students to help understand user needs, behaviour and motivations
- Designing great looking, responsive, intuitive and well-functioning web interfaces based on your research, best practice and experience
- Validating your designs using data and usability testing, rapidly iterating based on feedback and learnings
- Supporting the development of impactful products for our teachers and students, working with Agile scrum teams
- Supporting the development of highly engaging websites, in collaboration with Marketing, Senior Leadership and others
- Adapting to changing priorities, pitching in to help where needed
You will have:
- A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent UI and UX design skills
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Experience creating wireframes, storyboards, prototypes and user flows
- Experience with user interface and interaction design
- Demonstrable experience designing, conducting and analysing user research, using findings to meet user needs
- Strong visual design skills with the ability to deliver great looking and engaging designs
- Strong understanding of UI patterns, web accessibility and design standards
- Keen to share opinions, question approaches and listen to the user research
- Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
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Understanding of UCD and Design Thinking
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Demonstrable skills in visual hierarchy, colour theory and typography
These are great to have, but we’ll develop and teach you along the way:
- A relevant degree or equivalent commercial experience
- Experience using usage analytics to identify issues and review solution effectiveness
- Design experience in the Education sector
- Experience using A/B or Multivariate testing
- Experience working with brand identities
Unfortunately Sparx does not hold a license to sponsor visas. Therefore, we are unfortunately not able to process any applications that require sponsorship.
Benefits of working with us
We’re about living life, not putting it on hold. Sparx Learning employees have the opportunity to enjoy a whole range of benefits, a few of which include:
- ️ 25 days annual leave, rising each year with length of service, to a maximum of 30 days, plus the opportunity to buy an additional 5 days leave.
Comprehensive private medical and dental insurance, life assurance, virtual GP and an employee assistance programme.
Company pension.
Enhanced family leave and pay.
Paid sabbatical with qualifying length of service.
Individual Personal Development budget.
Sustainability is something we are passionate about, so we have a range of environmentally friendly benefits including green travel incentives, an electric car lease scheme and cycle to work scheme.
When based in the Exeter office, employees can enjoy locally produced, organic, free cooked meals.
Find out more about where we are based and our fantastic working environment here
About us
Sparx Learning is on a mission to improve the numeracy, and therefore life opportunities, of five million learners worldwide by 2030. We are committed to driving positive change through the effective use of education technology, with a razor-sharp focus on making a real difference to teachers, learners and families. Our products and internal services run on the Google ecosystem, supporting over 2,200 schools, 1.8 million learners and 37,000 teachers. Click to read more about us!
If you require an alternative recruitment method, or there is anything we can do to support you within the recruitment process, please do get in touch with us either by emailing us at [email protected] or phoning us on 01392 440 400.