[Hiring] Product Designer @Twinkl

Role Description

We are seeking an experienced Product Designer to lead core component design, manage standardised design libraries, and drive design system adoption across product and design teams. In this role, you will actively construct, optimise, and document foundational system elements while providing guidance and support to peer designers contributing to the system.

• Component Execution: Build and refine responsive, accessible UI components using advanced features like Auto Layout, properties, and variables.
• Documentation Maintenance: Write and update clear usage guidelines, interaction specifications, and clear "do’s and don’ts" for each component.
• Developer Alignment: Partner with front-end engineers to ensure design libraries and assets align with code libraries.
• System Support: Act as a main point of contact for design and product teams, triaging bug reports, reviewing contributions, and helping resolve implementation and design blockers.
• Audit & Optimisation: Conduct regular UI audits across existing products to identify inconsistent patterns and consolidate them into the system.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of digital product design experience, with at least 1 year focused on or heavily contributing to design systems.
• Figma Proficiency: Strong working knowledge of component architecture, library publishing, and basic variables/tokens management.
• Systems Mindset: Ability to look beyond a single feature or screen to see how a component functions across different user flows and use cases.
• Accessibility proficiency: Foundational knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG), its application and quality assurance.
• Portfolio showcasing your system’s design process, user research, and final designs.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• First-hand experience with some of the latest prototyping AI tools, either professionally or as personal experimentation.
• An understanding of the EdTech landscape, and emerging technologies such as AI is a plus.

Requirements

• Be User Centric: Have a deep empathy for users and a strong commitment to creating solutions that meet their needs and enhance their experience.
• Be Collaborative: Thrive in a team environment, working effectively with cross-functional teams to achieve common goals.
• Be Innovative: Bring creative problem-solving skills and a willingness to explore new ideas and approaches to design challenges.
• Be Detail Oriented: Have a keen eye for detail, ensuring the highest quality in design deliverables and user experiences.
• Be Adaptable & have a growth mindset: Thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, and be able to adapt to changing priorities and new challenges, open to learning and responsive to feedback.

Benefits

• A friendly, welcoming and supportive culture. We believe work should be fun and always put people before process.
• Flexible working with fully remote and hybrid working options - early bird or night owl? No problem - our flexible working policy helps you work the hours that suit you best.
• 33 days annual leave per year, pro rata. You decide which public holidays to recognise. After 2 years of employment, your annual leave entitlement will accrue year on year up to 38 days annual leave.
• An additional day of annual leave, a Me Day, to take time for yourself.
• Charity day to volunteer and support a registered charity of your choice.
• Westfield Health (including Health Club discount and Westfield Rewards discount and cashback).
• Learning and Development opportunities, with opportunities for internal mobility across various departments / areas of the business.
• 4 x annual salary death in service life assurance.
• Enhanced pension after long service.
• Enhanced parental and adoption leave after long service.
• Quarterly awards designed to reward and recognise our wonderful Twinkl employees.
• Seasonal events for all UK employees so you can catch up with your new colleagues in person.
• Twinkl Subscription.