Lead Specialist, UX Designer

About this role

Lead Specialist, UX Designer

Location: Hoboken - Hybrid

The Role

We're looking for a Lead Specialist, UX Designer with deep expertise in user-centered design to lead the creation of impactful experiences for our higher education products. You're someone who operates with strategic vision, exceptional craft, and strong influence—driving design excellence while mentoring others and shaping product direction that serves millions of learners.

You'll partner closely with content, product, research, and engineering teams and be responsible for:

• Leading design for major product areas, full user journeys, and platform-level initiatives across web and mobile, from discovery through launch and iteration

• Creating high-fidelity, pixel-perfect designs including comprehensive user flows, interactive prototypes, and detailed specifications that enable seamless engineering handoff

• Defining and evolving design patterns and components for our design system used across multiple product teams, with consideration for scalability, accessibility, and long-term consistency

• Leading user research initiatives: planning studies, facilitating sessions, synthesizing insights, and translating findings into actionable design improvements and strategic product recommendations

• Presenting design work to senior stakeholders and cross-functional partners, building conviction for design decisions that shape product strategy

• Mentoring junior and mid-level designers through design crits, pair designing, and thoughtful feedback that accelerates their growth and career development

You will be challenged in an organization that values vision, execution, and persistence. You will take ownership of complex design challenges by demonstrating systems thinking, connecting user needs, business goals, and technical architecture to create solutions that extend beyond individual features to holistic product experiences. UX Designers at Pearson are embedded within product teams that ...