User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer (Part time) – (£28,500-£32,000) 0.5 FTE – Perm – Hybrid, London UK

Join us and be part of a mission-driven, independent publisher. You’ll work with a diverse group of people who share a passion for empowering researchers, educators, and institutions to shape the future.

About Sage:

Sage  is a global academic publisher of books, journals, and library resources with a growing range of technologies to enable discovery, access, and engagement. Believing that research and education are critical in shaping society, Sara Miller McCune founded Sage in 1965. Today, we are controlled by a group of trustees charged with maintaining our independence and mission indefinitely.  

Our guaranteed independence means we’re free to: 

• Do more – supporting an equitable academic future, furthering disciplines that drive social change, and helping social and behavioural science make an impact 

• Work together – building lasting relationships, championing diverse perspectives, and co-creating resources to transform teaching and learning 

• Think long-term – experimenting, taking risks, and investing in new ideas 

About our Team:

• You will report into the User Experience Team. We’re a small, collaborative group of researchers, designers and analysts focused on the end-to-end experience of our products: from discovery and access to navigation, engagement and conversion. Our mission is to support the building of bridges to knowledge by making those bridges useful, usable, discoverable and accessible. 

• While you’ll report into the UX Team, day-to-day you will work closely with the product team delivering the website for Corwin, our brand of resources and services for training and practicing educators. 

Could you be our new User Experience Designer? Are you?

• Experienced with standard research methods such as user testing, interviews, focus groups, card sorting and competitor analysis. 

• Able to effectively communicate design decisions and tell the story of the design, bringing along your diverse group of stakeholders with you. 

• Able to draw insights from qualitative and quantitative data to inform designs. 

• Skilled in information architecture, with a knack for representing complex information with clarity. 

• Passionate about web accessibility with a track record of designing inclusive and accessible experiences. 

• Able to work quickly and efficiently to create desktop and mobile wireframes in at least one rapid prototyping tool, quickly revising and iterating on your work if necessary. 

• As you’ll be working with teams in the Pacific time zone, you will be required to attend late meetings once or twice a week.

Your new role:

• You will be working closely with our Corwin team on the main e-commerce site through which we sell books, events and other services to educators.

• Lead on critical design discovery work, including capturing, documenting and communicating user needs. Clearly communicate outcomes with standard tools of the trade, such as user flows, affinity maps and personas. 

• Collaborate with fellow team members to craft a vision for the user experience that meets business and user goals, and work with wider stakeholders to bring them on board. 

• Deliver strong concepts, from initial sketches to flows, wireframes and interactive prototypes, quickly iterating on designs. 

• Seek early feedback from stakeholders to ensure that your designs work within any constraints set by branding, systems, standards and technology. 

• Work with users to solicit feedback on design work, including user testing of prototypes. 

• Hand over to visual designers and developers, leaving them with a solid understanding of the design decisions taken and remaining on hand to co-create solutions to any problems that arise downstream. 

• Conduct acceptance testing to ensure that the developed product lives up to the experience as designed. 

Overview of benefits:

• 25 days holiday excluding bank holidays full-time/pro-rated for part-time roles

• 2 additional ’floating days’ of personal leave, in recognition that each of us has cultural, religious, or family commitments that fall at times when the company is not closed.

• Life assurance

• Income protection

• Access to Sage books and journals

• Tuition scheme and support for pursuing professional qualifications

• Hybrid working arrangements - In office 20% of contracted hours. We work flexibly and most staff can choose to work from home for up to 80% of their contracted hours.

Other benefits, which may change include:

• Sage lunches held weekly in the office

• Variety of snacks and beverages available in the office

• Home working allowance

• Travel insurance

• Healthy lifestyle reimbursement

• Access to the Company doctor

• Access to Company loans (season ticket loan, rental deposit loan, cycle loan)

• Anniversary trip

If you have a disability and need any support during the application process, please contact humanresources@sagepub.co.uk. We will respond to any requests for support in a timely manner. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply.

A cover letter is important to us, this offers the hiring manager valuable insights into how your skill set aligns with the role, what unique contributions you can bring to the team and why you are interested in this position. Therefore, when applying for this role online, please upload your cover letter and CV as one document.

Applications without a cover letter may regrettably not be reviewed.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

At Sage we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team that is representative of all sections of society and to sustaining a culture that celebrates difference, encourages authenticity, and creates a deep sense of belonging. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, disability, sex or gender identity, sexual orientation, colour, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief as creating value through diversity is what makes us strong.  As a business and as an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we're open to flexible working arrangements where appropriate.

Deadline 16th March 2025