Overview

Job title: UX Designer

Salary: £39,700 - £51,550

Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (at least 2 days per week in the office)

Contract: Permanent, Full-time (35 hours per week)

We\'re looking for a UX Designer who is passionate about creating intuitive, customer-centred experiences and thrives on turning complex problems into simple, elegant solutions. In this role, you will support and lead the research and design process on focused projects, ensuring that every solution aligns with our design principles and standards. You'll apply user-centred design thinking, craft thoughtful interactions and visuals, and validate ideas through research and usability testing. As a collaborative team player, you\'ll contribute to a positive and curious environment where ideas are shared openly, and design decisions are communicated clearly across teams.

We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.

About The Role

As a confident, inquisitive UX Designer, you will bring clarity and creativity to every project, turning complex problems into simple, customer-centred solutions. You\'ll lead research and design on focused initiatives, ensure your work aligns with our design principles and system standards, and collaborate across teams to deliver experiences that are consistent, engaging, and loved by our users.

You\'ll be able to:

• Advocate for the customer voice - support building research plans and customer engagement to define the problem space.
• Independently facilitate user interviews and testing.
• Synthesise user findings and present recommendations.
• Own the solution for a project, ensuring it fits in with the wider product and UX strategy.
• Develop wireframes, mid-fi and hi-fi designs.

About You

A passionate, motivated individual who has an interest in educational products and services. You must have strong time and project management skills and be able to communicate and present clearly and effectively. You will have a considerable understanding of user-centred design, accessibility principles and service design.

If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.

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

We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.

Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.

We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being September 30th, 2025. Interviews are scheduled to take place on the week commencing October 6th.

Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.

Why join us

Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You\'ll belong to a collaborative team that\'s 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\'s 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.