Senior Design Engineer: End-to-End Prototyping for Enterprise UX

Pearson; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Pearson is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to take product concepts from first sketch to interactive prototype and production-quality interfaces. You will design in Figma, code, and validate with real enterprise clients, with no handoff, ensuring a cohesive user experience.

This senior IC role requires strong front-end craft, accessibility expertise, and the ability to work across design, research, and engineering in a flexible, fast-paced UK hybrid team.

Qualifications

• Experience spanning product design and front-end engineering.
• Strong front-end craft: TypeScript/JavaScript, React and CSS.
• Solid design skills across typography, layout, color, interaction and motion.
• Fluency with Figma and AI-assisted workflows.
• Experience designing for complex, integration-rich enterprise environments.
• Knowledge of WCAG accessibility and practical application.

Responsibilities

• Prototype new product concepts in code (React/TypeScript or similar).
• Design and build the user-facing layer end to end: interaction design, IA, visual design and front-end code.
• Make composed products feel like one product by stitching together Pearson and third-party systems.
• Establish lightweight design foundations with patterns and components.
• Plan and run validation with usability sessions and prototypes as research instruments.
• Ship accessible by default, with WCAG conformance as a baseline.
• Flex between coding, research, facilitation, or design as the bet requires.

Skills

TypeScript/JavaScript

React

Design craft

Figma

WCAG accessibility

AI tools

Complex systems design

Communication

Tools

CSS

LTI/SCORM/xAPI

Job description

Pearson is seeking a Senior Design Engineer to take product concepts from first sketch to interactive prototype and production-quality interfaces. You will design in Figma, code, and validate with real enterprise clients, with no handoff, ensuring a cohesive user experience.

This senior IC role requires strong front-end craft, accessibility expertise, and the ability to work across design, research, and engineering in a flexible, fast-paced UK hybrid team.