UX Design Lead is required for a dynamic educational resources company, located in Utrecht. The Senior UX designer with help our client create accessible, engaging products and services that are meaningful to teachers and learners. As part of the UX Design team and the Commercial & Back Office Segment, you design and validate user experiences for their digital solutions based on quantitative and qualitative data.

This opportunity can be remote within The Netherlands

Dutch speaking is required

What they are looking for:

• You bring significant experience in designing and developing solutions where you translate needs and complexity into a user-friendly interface that entices our users. You do this through your design thinking approach and that extra bit of magic sauce only you can bring to the table. For this you collaborate with your design, product & data colleagues.
• You work together with stakeholders to create the necessary vision, high-level roadmap to ensure long term strategic objectives are achieved.
• You determine, together with the development team and product manager of your segment, the scope of the functionalities you will improve or implement. You will do this based on spending time with end-users on a regular basis to truly understand their needs.
• You are curious and enjoy sharing acquired knowledge and insights with others. You enjoy collaborating with your colleagues and, by being aware of their needs, you find appropriate solutions to help them along and strengthen the design community.
• You’re comfortable in reporting on progress to senior management, and act as a strategic sparring partner for management.

Experience Required:

• 10+ years of experience as a UX Designer, with a proven track record of designing successful digital products, and 4+ years in managing people. A healthy dose of experience, and knowledge trump just about any degree you can throw at us here but A Bachelor's or Master’s degree related to Interaction Design/Human Computer Interaction (HCI) or a portfolio that demonstrates equivalent experience is a plus.
• We consider proficiency in user-centered design principles, practices, and methodologies as a given but we put extra value on specific skills you bring in relation to education. Demonstrating how you think, the problems you solved and how you solved them is what we’re interested in.
• Your solutions and design patterns may be used in other platforms within the same organization, so it's crucial to understand the context of your solution with regard to the other platforms. This means you can think of it in an abstract manner and, when it makes sense, build it with a certain modularity using our design system. You advocate and share these patterns to the design community and contribute them to our design system.
• You are a visionary that likes to drive design forward in your team, with ideas and provoking concepts that will push our platforms forward as well.
• You always prioritise the user and can properly support your design decisions towards the development team and business stakeholders. At the same time, you should be able to find the sweet spot between the user, business, and technological feasibility with the help of your product and tech peers.
• Easily work with the development team and ensure that your designs are clearly documented and communicated.
• You are a force in building out the design community together with your colleagues.
• You are well versed in leading design thinking workshops and design sprints.
• You are proficient in Figma and you will be working with and contributing to Pixel, our design system.
• You understand the importance of inclusive and accessible design and know how to articulate that.

This is an exciting opportunity for a UX Lead to join a dynamic educational resources company. If you are interested, please do apply with your up to date CV. Please only apply if you are located in either The Netherlands or Belgium and have Dutch speaking.