Senior User Experience Designer

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. This is a remote, 6-month temporary assignment.

About the role

We're looking for a Senior User Experience Designer with a strong foundation in user-centered design to shape engaging experiences for our higher education products. You'll operate through curiosity, collaboration, and craft excellence, growing your strategic thinking while delivering high-quality designs that support learning outcomes. You'll partner closely with content, product, and engineering teams to design end-to-end user experiences across web and mobile platforms.

This is a rare moment to shape the future of learning. Designers at our client are helping define how AI shows up in education with intention, ethics, and craft. We are creating experiences that evolve alongside tomorrow’s students, instructors, and institutions—from agentic study companions to AI-powered course creation tools—building systems that amplify curiosity, agency, and impact at global scale.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end user experiences across web and mobile platforms, from concept through implementation
• Create high-fidelity designs including user flows, interactive prototypes, and detailed specifications that enable smooth engineering handoff
• Contribute new patterns and components to our design system with consideration for scalability, accessibility, and consistency
• Plan and conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions, validate solutions, and iterate based on insights
• Lead design for complex, end-to-end user experiences, from initial discovery through launch and iteration
• Partner with product managers to define and frame design problems, identify opportunities, and establish clear success metrics
• Design and document reusable components and patterns for the design system with consideration for scalability, accessibility, and cross-platform consistency
• Lead user research initiatives (or co-create with a researcher), including planning, facilitation, and synthesis, translating insights into actionable design and product recommendations
• Present design work and strategic recommendations to senior leadership, building conviction for design decisions that shape product direction
• Facilitate design workshops and collaborative sessions that build shared understanding and drive alignment across cross-functional stakeholders
• Partner with product and engineering to scope design work, define timelines, and establish success criteria for initiatives
• Leverage data and analytics to validate design decisions and iteratively improve experiences through A/B testing and experimentation
• Mentor junior designers through design crits, pair designing, and thoughtful feedback that accelerates their growth
• Design for AI-driven teaching and learning experiences (working with learning science), considering ethical implications and pedagogical effectiveness

Requirements

• 5-8 years of product design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates craft excellence, strategic thinking, and measurable impact on user experience and business outcomes
• Experience designing AI-powered experiences is a strong plus
• Strategic designer and thinker who brings pragmatic judgment to every decision, excelling at reducing ambiguity and defining clear paths forward through thoughtful problem-framing and communication
• Equally comfortable designing pixel-perfect interfaces and shaping scalable design systems, always grounding work in user needs, business goals, and technical feasibility
• Able to thrive in cross-functional environments where collaboration is the default, partnering seamlessly with content strategists, product managers, researchers, engineers, and stakeholders

About the company

Our client is on a mission to build a direct, lifelong relationship with millions of learners around the world. As the world’s leading learning company, with 18,000+ employees across 70 countries, we reach learners at critical moments of growth through content, assessment, and digital experiences that shape education, careers, and opportunity at a global scale.

Higher Education is entering its next chapter. We’re in the midst of a deep digital and AI transformation—reimagining learning as agentic, adaptive, and human-centered. Our teams are designing intelligent learning products that don’t just deliver information, but actively coach, challenge, and partner with learners, grounded in Socratic principles, critical thinking, and pedagogical rigor.