Product Designer

About Us

King’s Digital is an innovative and collaborative team at the core of King’s College London’s online education development. We partner with academics and professional services staff across the university and with our external partners to design, develop and deliver a wide range of educational programmes in line with King's Education Strategy. Together, we develop online master's degrees, short courses, bespoke executive education courses, and increasingly, stackable micro-credentials.

We are a dynamic team with ambitious growth targets in a priority area of development. As we welcome a temporary team member for this maternity cover post, we proudly maintain our supportive culture and community, prioritising both individual and collective wellbeing. We actively work to protect and improve the wellbeing of all staff—be it physical, mental, or social—and recognise this as central to our work and success.

The role is primarily based at King’s Strand Campus though you may be required to travel to other campuses on occasion. As part of King’s trial of hybrid working, all team members can work remotely for part of the week if they wish.

About The Role

This maternity cover role is part of the User Experience team and will collaborate with user experience research, product design, and web development to enhance the learning platform that supports our online and blended courses.

You will design the UX and UI of the virtual learning environment, informed by user research, and work closely with the UX team to ensure an impactful and consistent student experience. Your contributions will help optimise the look and feel of our product and design system during this period.

Bringing your passion for UX research and design, you will support the team in making informed decisions based on learners’ needs—positively impacting engagement, adoption, retention, and task success. Your work will play a key role in maintaining momentum and continuity as we shape the future of education.

This is a full-time post (35 Hours per week), and you will be offered a fixed term contract from 10th April 2025 until 14th November 2025.

About You

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential Criteria

• Degree or equivalent qualification(s).
• Strong portfolio that demonstrates deep understanding of UX and UI design principles for both web and mobile and experience in all aspects of the product design cycle, from data collection and exploration to development and measurement of performance of releases (please ensure you provide a link to your portfolio).
• Proven ability to identify opportunities and successfully conducting generative and evaluative research, using diverse research tools and methods (qualitative, quantitative, attitudinal, and behavioural) and translating research results into design solutions and/or product innovations.
• Deep understanding of digital design accessibility principles, laws and regulations.
• Ability to proactively organise own workload and resources and to lead on projects, providing guidance and work estimations, dependencies and managing concurrent activities.
• Experience working cross-collaboratively with other Designers as well as other teams such as User Experience research, web development, content development, learning design, and others.
• Ability to deliver compelling presentations and demonstrations to communicate design decisions and get stakeholders buy-in.
• Highly organised, proactive, open-minded, and able to promote and enable a culture of collaboration in a fast-paced environment.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of educational technologies and their use by students and academics
• Working knowledge or interest in Learning Analytics
• Working knowledge or interest in statistics for UX
  
  

Downloading a Copy Of Our Job Description

Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.

Further information

We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.

We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.

We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘ How we Recruit’ pages.

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.

Grade and Salary:£40,386 - £47,414 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance

Job ID: 109188

Close Date: 10-Mar-2025

Contact Person: Juliana Matos

Contact Details: [email protected]