UX Designer

📌 Job Title: UX Designer

📍 Location: Madrid, Tres Cantos (Remote with occasional visits to the office)

🕒 Type: Full-time

📄 Contract Type: permanent contract of employment

Sanoma Learning is the leading European learning company, serving over 20 million students in 11 countries. We offer printed and digital learning materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary, and vocational education. The development of our methodologies is based on deep teacher and student insight and really understanding their needs. By combining our educational technologies and pedagogical expertise, we create learning products and services with the highest learning impact. In our Technology organization, you will join the largest cross-cultural community of Sanoma Learning and contribute to the digital transformation and future of education in Europe.

Work setup 🌍

We offer two work models: a hybrid setup (three days working from home, two days in the office) or a remote setup with occasional visits to our Barcelona office for team events, training, and business trips. Your designated home office should be in Spain, and you are expected to work exclusively within Spain.

📝About The Role

As a UX designer, you will be part of the digital products organization, collaborating with team members across various European countries. You will report to the UX Competence Lead. You'll be working on MyPortal product that aims to make digital learning and teaching more intuitive and engaging. You will support key decisions of Sanoma Learning’s future direction.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage in discovery and problem-solving activities, organising workshops and using conceptual thinking to develop innovative solutions
• Design user flows, interfaces, and high-level information architecture for web-based digital products
• Lead the design and prototyping process, creating both low and high-fidelity prototypes to visualize and test concepts
• Manage and communicate with stakeholders, presenting your work convincingly to ensure alignment and understanding
• Work collaboratively with UX designers, user researchers, product & innovation managers, architects and others to achieve project goals and foster a supportive team environment
• Coordinate with global teams and stakeholders, leveraging international experience to enhance project outcomes
  
  

Must-have Requirements

✅Bachelor’s degree in UX/UI Design or a related field.

✅Experience and strong interest in designing user experiences for new emerging topics and innovative technologies

✅Experience in running ideation sessions, identifying user needs, and collaborating with researchers

✅ Experience in creating comprehensive product designs with a focus on scalability and the bigger picture

✅Hands-on experience with in Figma, Miro, Confluence

✅ English proficiency: B2/C1 (both written and spoken communication).

✅ Spanish proficiency: B1/B2 (both written and spoken communication).

Nice-to-have Requirements

💠 Experience with web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG)