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Cengage Group

User Experience Designer

🇺🇸 Remote - OH

🕑 Full-Time

💰 $67K - $87K

💻 Product Development

🗓️ August 3rd, 2025

Edtech.com's Summary

Cengage Group is hiring a User Experience Designer. The role involves crafting outstanding user experiences, collaborating with cross-functional teams, contributing to design systems, and conducting user research to continuously improve design solutions.

Highlights
  • Design and develop engaging user experiences for educational platforms.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement design solutions.
  • Contribute to and utilize internal design systems for consistency.
  • Conduct user research and testing to refine designs.
  • Proven experience with design systems and accessible design standards required.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills essential.
  • Minimum Associate's degree with 5+ years of relevant experience.
  • Portfolio demonstrating visual design, interaction design, and problem-solving approach required.
  • Work supports Cengage's Higher Education business serving over 10 million US students.
  • Compensation range: $67,000 to $87,100 USD base pay.

User Experience Designer Full Description

User Experience Designer (Remote)
Ohio, USA
United States
Full time

We believe in the power and joy of learning
At Cengage Group, our employees have a direct impact in helping students around the world discover the power and joy of learning. We are bonded by our shared purpose – driving innovation that helps millions of learners improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.   

Our culture values inclusion, engagement, and discovery
Our business is driven by our strong culture, and we know that creating an inclusive workplace is absolutely essential to the success of our company and our learners, as well as our individual well-being. We recognize the value of diverse perspectives in everything we do, and strive to ensure employees of all levels and backgrounds feel empowered to voice their ideas and bring their authentic selves to work. We achieve these priorities through programs, benefits, and initiatives that are integrated into the fabric of how we work every day. To learn more, please see https://www.cengagegroup.com/about/inclusion-and-belonging/.   

What you'll do here:
  • Craft and develop outstanding user experiences that delight our users
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build and implement flawless design solutions
  • Use and contribute to internal design systems, ensuring consistency across all platforms
  • Develop innovative experiences that redefine industry standards
  • Conduct user research and testing to iterate and improve designs   

Skills you will need here:
  • Proven experience with design systems and crafting cohesive user experiences
  • Strong proficiency in designing accessible solutions and meeting required standards
  • Outstanding collaboration and communication skills
  • Ability to determine user needs and successfully implement solutions
  • Ambitious approach and a drive to compete at a world-class level
  • Minimum Associate's degree with 5+ years of experience.
  • Portfolio of work that demonstrates not only strong visual and interaction design skills, but also showcases your design thinking, problem-solving approach, and the process behind your decisions    

Cengage Group's Higher Education business, Cengage, supports learning and student success by providing materials and digital solutions to faculty and students enrolled in two-year, four-year and vocational programs. We currently serve more than 10 million of the 18 million students in US higher ed. Setting a new standard of service for our customers, we deliver quality, easy-to-use course materials from textbooks and eBooks to courseware such as MindTap and WebAssign. In the US, we offer Cengage Unlimited and Cengage Unlimited for Institutions. We help instructors be better teachers, we help institutions solve problems and we empower students to leverage the power and joy of learning to transform lives.    

Cengage Group is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of race, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, age, veteran status, and any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.   

Cengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at accommodations.ta@cengage.com or at +1 (617) 289-7917.  
About Cengage Group
Cengage Group, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.  

Compensation
At Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.

The full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location.  Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.$67,000.00 - $87,100.00 USD