Senior User Experience Designer

Education changes lives. But tech hasn’t lived up to its promise for the more than 1 billion students in school around the world — at least not yet. At Kognity, we’re here to change that.

We’re a 125-person EdTech scale-up powering learning in 120+ countries. Our intelligent platform replaces traditional textbooks and combines rich, interactive pedagogy with smart AI and data to help students and teachers thrive — from international schools to US high schools.

Why Kognity is the place to be:

• ✨ Educational Innovation – Build AI-driven solutions that actually make learning better.

• 🌍 Global Reach – Our platform supports educators and learners in over 120 countries.

• 🤝 Driven Culture – Work with brilliant, hard-working people who care deeply about what they do.

• 📈 Real Growth – In every role at Kognity, you will be expected to grow.

What you’ll do:

• 📊 Design and deliver seamless user experiences by driving the end-to-end design flow (Discovery, Solution Design and Evaluation.)

• 🧑‍🏫 Play a key role in revolutionizing our design function; Design system, Information Architecture, metrics, Content & Typography guidelines, and Design principles.

• 🌐 Conduct research to truly understand our users and inform wider product decisions; interviewing, prototyping, workshops, and validation.

What we’re looking for:

• 💻  A track record of successfully designing and delivering customer-facing digital products.

• 🌐 UX research experience; Proficiency in user research techniques, qualitative/quantitative data, user testing, interviewing and consolidating.

• 🚀 Visual & Interaction Design; Experience using typography, icons, illustrations, buttons, colours, and layouts to create visually appealing interfaces.

• 🧑‍💻 Technical Skills: You’ll need to be well-versed in UX tools and technologies; examples include Figma, MixPanel, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Interview process

• 📞 Discovery Call with a Recruiter: A friendly chat with a Recruiter to explore if the role is your perfect match.

• 🌟 Hiring manager discussion - a talk with the VP of Product and Design to discuss the role in more detail.

• 🤝 Portfolio discussion: A 30-minute discussion based on two of your recent projects with our design team.

• 💡 Case study collab: A 90-minute collaborative design task with the team.

• 🌟 Values Interview: Share your journey by engaging in a lively discussion about your experiences, aligning them with the heartbeat of our company values. 

Our Values

• 🏅 We take ownership – We take initiative and act with self-leadership. We don’t wait for someone else to solve problems we see.

• 🤖 We leverage AI – We apply AI to enhance creativity, decisions, and execution to allow for impact maximization.

• 💡 We drive customer value – Success for our customers drives our progress. We create value for them in everything we do.

• 🗣️ We are transparent – We are radically transparent with opinions and feedback, and we share information widely.

• 💙 We take care of ourselves and each other – We work hard and passionately, but also prioritise our own well-being, and that of our colleagues.

Benefits 

• 🏢 Truly hybrid – Work from our Stockholm office when you like

• 📈 ITP Pension Plan – With Nordnet

• 💪 Wellness budget – 5,000 SEK/year to spend on health-related services

• 🌴 30 vacation days – Paid, every year

• 🤒 Sick leave – Full pay from day one

Every qualified person will be evaluated regardless of age, gender, identity, nationality, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability status or religion. We’re committed to building a diverse, inclusive team and welcome people of all backgrounds, experiences, perspectives, and abilities.

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