Sanoma Learning
UI Designer
Sanoma LearningPoland2 days ago
Full-timeRemote FriendlyDesign, Art/Creative +1
πŸ“Œ Job Title: UI Designer

πŸ“ 1st Location: Warsaw, Poland (Remote with occasional visits to the office - once per quarter)

πŸ“2nd Location: Madrid, Tres Cantos (Remote with occasional visits to the office - once per quarter)

πŸ•’ Type: Full-time

πŸ“„ Contract Type for Poland: B2B (requires a registered sole proprietorship in Poland)

πŸ“„ Contract Type for Spain: 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.

πŸ“About The Role

We are looking for a passionate UI Designer to join our team. This role focuses on designing and evolving the visual language, components, and interaction patterns that make up the Sanoma Learning designs. You will collaborate closely with frontend developers, and other designers to ensure the system is visually consistent, accessible, and easy to adopt.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain reusable components, patterns, and layouts in Figma. Own and evolve the shared Figma libraries, including variants, tokens, and documentation.
  • Ensure all components and patterns are accessible by design, following WCAG and inclusive design best practices.
  • Collaborate with developers to translate design specifications into framework-agnostic Web Components.
  • Provide clear documentation, guidelines, and usage examples for designers and developers.
  • Partner with product designers to ensure the designs support their needs and real-world use cases.
  • Participate in reviews and provide feedback on new component or pattern proposals.

Must-have Requirements

βœ… Expert-level skills in Figma, including creating, maintaining, and scaling component libraries, variants, and design tokens.

βœ… Proven experience designing component-based systems (design systems, style guides, or pattern libraries).

βœ… Solid understanding of typography, color theory, spacing, and visual hierarchy.

βœ… Strong knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG, WAI-ARIA) and ability to design inclusive, accessible UI patterns.

βœ… Experience collaborating with accessibility specialists, QA, and developers to ensure accessible implementation.

βœ… Ability to create clear, structured documentation for design system usage.

Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines.

βœ… English proficiency: C1/C2 (both written and spoken communication).

βœ… Spanish proficiency: B2/C1 (both written and spoken communication only for 2nd location: Spain

Nice-to-have Requirements

πŸ’  Experience working with Web Components or framework-agnostic design systems.

πŸ’  Familiarity with design tokens and how they map to code.

πŸ’  Motion design or micro-interaction skills.

πŸ’  Knowledge of responsive design and multi-platform adaptations.

πŸ’  Contribution to open-source or internal design system projects.

About Sanoma Learning

How do you prepare students for the world, engage their curiosity and inspire them to grow? That is the main question of teachers all around the world. At Sanoma Learning, it has always been our mission to help to find and develop best-in-class answers to this question. If you join us, it means that you embark on an exciting journey to help shape the future of learning for primary, secondary and vocational education. We believe that your journey is our success as a company.

Sanoma Learning is a leading K12 European learning company, operating in 12 countries. Our learning products and services enable and support teachers and schools to develop the talents of every child to reach their potential. By offering printed and digital learning content, as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary and vocational education, we want to grow our positive impact on learning across Europe. With over 3000 employees, we help shape the future of education for 25+ million of students.

So, are you ready to start your journey to help shape the future of learning and help teachers to support all students to reach their potential?

Sanoma Learning is an equal opportunity employer; we are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensure equal opportunity for all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or any other characteristics.

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