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UX Designer
Salary: £39,900 – £51,900
Location: Cambridge, UK – Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full-time (35 hours per week)
Would you like to shape accessible digital products that make a meaningful difference to teaching, learning and assessment around the world?
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
Join our Digital Products and Services team as a UX Designer and help deliver user-centred products and services informed by customer insight and evidence-based design. You'll lead research and design activities, collaborate across disciplines, and have opportunities to connect directly with teachers and learners through research activities and school visits.
About The Role
As a UX Designer, you will lead research and design activities on small to medium-complexity projects, taking ownership of solutions from discovery through to delivery. Working closely with colleagues across Product Management, Technology, UX Research and Design, you will define problems, explore opportunities and deliver experiences that balance user needs, business objectives and technical constraints.
You will be accountable for ensuring that customer insight informs product decisions and that your work results in accessible, inclusive and engaging experiences. You will clearly communicate your design rationale, support effective implementation and review delivered solutions to help maintain a high-quality user experience.
Additional responsibilities and accountabilities include:
- Lead user research, discovery and design activities to create evidence-based digital experiences that meet customer, business and technical needs.
- Design accessible and inclusive user experiences across the product lifecycle, from initial concepts and prototypes through to delivery and review.
- Collaborate with Product, Engineering and Design colleagues to deliver high-quality solutions and drive continuous improvement.
- Create and communicate design artefacts, insights and recommendations that support effective decision-making and implementation.
- Contribute to the development of end-to-end customer journeys and strategic design initiatives across teaching, learning and assessment experiences.
- Support a collaborative design culture through design critiques, knowledge sharing, mentoring and the promotion of accessibility and user-centred design practices.
This position has been classified as a hybrid role, requiring the selected candidate to typically spend 40-60% of their time collaborating and connecting face-to-face at their dedicated location. Aside from our hybrid principles, other flexible working requests will be considered from the first day of employment, including other work arrangements should you require adjustments due to a disability or long-term health condition.
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About You
You will have practical experience applying user-centred design principles and methods to digital products or services. You will be able to plan and conduct qualitative research, translate customer insight into effective design solutions and take ownership of UX activities across the product lifecycle. You will be confident using Figma and modern design tools. This includes strong proficiency with Auto Layout, Variables, Component Properties and Interactive Components. You will understand interaction design, accessibility and inclusive design principles, and be able to balance user needs with business goals and technical considerations.
You will also bring:
- Strong communication, storytelling and presentation skills.
- Experience facilitating workshops and engaging stakeholders.
- The ability to communicate design intent and evidence-based recommendations clearly.
- Confidence giving and receiving constructive feedback through design critiques.
- Strong organisational, time-management and project-management skills.
- The ability to collaborate effectively across Product, Technology, Research and Design disciplines.
If you meet the above minimum requirements, we encourage you to apply. Your application will be even stronger if you can also demonstrate the following desirable criteria:
- Experience creating customer journeys, service blueprints, ecosystem maps or service flows.
- A systems-thinking approach and an understanding of how experiences connect across products and services.
- Appreciation of Agile product development practices.
- Experience working with geographically distributed teams or designing for users across different markets and contexts.
- Experience designing for audiences with varied needs, contexts and levels of digital literacy.
For a detailed job description, please refer to the link at the bottom of the advert on our careers site.
We are a Disability Confident (DC) employer that is committed to equality and inclusion ensuring our recruitment process is accessible to all. The DC scheme's Offer of an Interview commitment applies to applicants who opt in, and disclose a disability or a long-term health condition, and who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. In instances where interviewing all qualifying candidates is not practicable and/or appropriate, we prioritise those who best meet the minimum criteria, as we would for applicants who do not have a disability or long-term health condition.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is an approved UK employer for the sponsorship of eligible roles and applicants under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please refer to the gov.uk website for guidance to understand your own eligibility based on the role you are applying for.
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Rewards And Benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We aim to support candidates by making our interview process clear and transparent. The closing date for all applications will be 16 October 2026. We will review applications on an ongoing basis, and shortlisted candidates can expect interviews to take place from the week commencing 26 October 2026.
If you are shortlisted and progressed through the stages, you can expect:
- First stage virtual interview via MS Teams.
- Final stage interview: in-person at our offices in Cambridge.
If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process due to a disability or a long-term health condition, there will be an opportunity for you to inform us via the online application form. We will do our best to accommodate your needs.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
We are committed to an equitable recruitment process. As such, applications must be submitted via our official online application procedure. Please refrain from sending your CV directly to our recruiters. If you experience technical difficulties or require additional support with submitting your online application, contact the Recruiter.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You will belong to a collaborative team that is exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
Cambridge University Press & Assessment is committed to being a place where anyone can enjoy a successful career, where it is safe to speak up, and where we learn continuously to improve together. We welcome applications from all candidates, regardless of demographic characteristics (age, disability, educational attainment, ethnicity, gender, marital status, neurodiversity, religion, sex, gender identity and sexual identity), cultural, or social class/background.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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