Senior Product Designer

Job Description

What you’ll get

At Perlego we believe in the key role you will play to achieve our shared mission. You'll belong to a culture of dreamers, team players and avid learners with a flexible, value-based approach. Here, you can become your best self, and through your talent, make a real impact in the world of education.

What we do

At Perlego, there are almost 100 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. We believe access to good quality affordable learning unlocks potential. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.

We recently expanded our library to make over 1 million books affordable for learners, earned a 100% Gold ASPIRE rating for accessibility and reached over 15 million people. The next stage of Perlego is twofold: 1) expand our support to students and publishers globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and educators teach more effectively.

🔎 What We’re Looking For

A Senior Product Designer with experience designing world-class experiences and beautifully crafted interfaces. You’ll be joining our design team and working on every stage of the design process, from research to delivery. This role is pivotal in driving the growth of our platform by optimising user acquisition, engagement, retention, and monetisation through innovative design solutions.

🤝 How We Work Together

Perlego is organised into cross-functional tribes working together on a common domain. Our designers collaborate with engineers, product managers, and commercial partners to execute strategic projects that drive business and user impact. This role will be embedded in the Consumer (D2C) tribe while also working within the design team, focusing on developing new ways for our product to grow and reach more learners across the globe.

What you'll do

Supporting the Consumer Tribe:

• Human-Centric Design: Develop a deep understanding of our learners’ goals, workflows, and pain points through comprehensive user research and analysis. Be an advocate for the user's best interests while balancing business needs.
• Growth-Oriented Solutions: Identify opportunities for growth and design experiments to test hypotheses related to user acquisition, engagement, and retention.
• Creativity in Delivery: Create and foster innovative, memorable and delightful user experiences that drive growth and engagement.
• Analytics and Data: Leverage data and analytics tools to validate design assumptions, conduct A/B testing, and iteratively improve designs.

Supporting the Design Team:

• Design System Contribution: Contribute to and evolve brand guidelines, use and collaborate on design systems (and empower others to use them), create scalable design solutions, ensure cross-platform consistency, and educate/foster systemic thinking.
• Research and Facilitation: Participate and/or lead user research activities and facilitate design workshops as needed.
• Business Support: Support the business with answering brand requests, including creating visual assets for go-to-market and marketing needs.

What Success Looks Like for This Role in 12 Months:

• In 2 Months: You will understand your assigned domain and have started your first project.
• In 3 Months: You will have delivered your first project.
• In 6 Months: You will confidently lead design initiatives within your domain, demonstrating measurable growth impact.

Requirements

🔥 It’s the Perfect Role for You If You:

• User-Centricity: Have a deep understanding of user-centred design principles, a passion for creating user-friendly experiences, and can balance user interests with business needs.
• Systemic Thinking: Are skilled at using and contributing to design systems, empowering others to think systematically, and creating scalable design solutions that ensure cross-platform consistency.
• Collaboration: Thrive in and foster a highly collaborative environment, working effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Creativity: Possess strong creative thinking and visual skills, with a keen eye for detail, quality, and innovation, and can foster creativity in others.
• Emotional Design: Use emotional design to foster connections to our brand, increase usability, memorability, and build a strong brand personality.
• Growth Knowledge: Have some understanding of growth design principles and business metrics.
• Analytics: Understand the basics of A/B testing and data analysis.
• Fast-Pace: Thrive in a fast-paced environment

⭐️ It’s a Plus If You Have:

• Experience with accessible design.
• Strong experience in facilitating design workshops.
• Experience with social media and leading marketing campaigns.
• Experience with user research.
• A general interest in education, books, reading, and always learning new things.

Benefits

🌈 Benefits include:

✨Compensation

The minimum salary for this role is £60,000 + share options

Why should you work at Perlego?

Apart from our mission, we foster a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support.

Want to learn more about how we’re making learning accessible? Check out our latest impact report

🏠 Flexible

We operate a flexible hybrid working environment. If you’re based in London, we’d expect to see you in the office twice a week, if you’re outside of London we’d expect to see you at least 6 times a quarter (hopefully at our quarterly socials 💃). If you’re looking for a 100% remote role, this one is not for you.

At Perlego, we empower you to work in a way that supports your needs and your life. We trust people to know what works best for them. Check out our Flexa profile to find out more.

🧠 L&D Budget

We value continuous learning and you will have a personal L&D budget for online courses, subscriptions or books not on Perlego.

🌱 Unlimited Coaching Opportunities

Unlimited access to MoreHappi, an on-demand professional coaching platform to offer all employees access to unbiased and professional coaching opportunities.

🤓 Learning Time

All employees have dedicated Learning Time to focus on new skills, projects or interests that lay outside of their day-to-day job, including Hackathons which bring our entire Engineering team together to work on exciting projects.

🌴 Work-Life Balance

Everyone needs a break, so enjoy 30 days off (incl. bank holidays) + 1 additional day annual leave for every year of service up to 35 days off (incl. bank holidays)

🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays

We understand that not everyone aligns with the same calendar; we offer the flexibility to take your local country's bank holiday allowance for other religious or cultural days.

e.g. switch UK Easter Bank Holidays Days for Eid celebrations

🗺 Work from overseas

We are also flexible if you wish to work remotely overseas for short periods of time, as long as you remain a UK tax resident

❄️ Office Reset

All employees can also enjoy the days between Boxing Day and New Year off, to reset and refresh for the new year - this is additional to your annual leave 🙂

🏖 Sabbatical

After three years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month unpaid sabbatical, and after five years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month paid sabbatical

💛 Personal Days

Life happens and we want you to be able to use your annual leave for resting, relaxing or taking time out to do something you love!

We offer 1 additional day a year for life events (your wedding, relocation, moving house, or a child starting school).

🍏 Health & Wellbeing

We want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Vitality.

💭 Mental Health

All employees get access to therapy and counselling through Vitality

💸 Financial Wellbeing

Track your financial goals and receive financial advice all via Mintago

🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme

We're committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work. Perlego will buy your bike of choice, which you'll pay back over 12 months.

🎉 Social

We're a tight-knit bunch who enjoy our time to play. We have regular social events and activities for everyone - everything from white water rafting to board game nights.

🍼 Family time

We believe family is really important; we offer new parents a competitive matched parental leave as well as a phased return to work from extended leave.

👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit

We want to support working parents and carers, so we offer a workplace nursery benefit scheme, helping our employees potentially save thousands of £££ against the cost of nurseries each year.

👋 Belonging at Perlego

🌈 We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of thought and background.

❤️ We are actively building a diverse team, so we strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

📣 To enable an equitable experience for all and give you the best chance of success, if you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know by emailing ben@perlego.com