Senior UI Designer

📌 Job Title: Senior UI Designer

📍 Location: Warsaw, Poland (Remote with occasional visits to the office - once per quarter)

🕒 Type: Full-time

📄 Contract Type: B2B (requires a registered sole proprietorship in Poland)

Sanoma Learning is the leading European learning company, serving over 20 million students in 11 countries. We offer printed and digital learning materials as well as digital learning and teaching platforms for primary, secondary, and vocational education. The development of our methodologies is based on deep teacher and student insight and really understanding their needs. By combining our educational technologies and pedagogical expertise, we create learning products and services with the highest learning impact. In our Technology organization, you will join the largest cross-cultural community of Sanoma Learning and contribute to the digital transformation and future of education in Europe.

📝About The Role

We are looking for a passionate UI Designer to join our team. This role focuses on designing and evolving the visual language, components, and interaction patterns that make up the Sanoma Learning designs. You will collaborate closely with frontend developers, and other designers to ensure the system is visually consistent, accessible, and easy to adopt.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reusable components, patterns, and layouts in Figma. Own and evolve the shared Figma libraries, including variants, tokens, and documentation.
• Ensure all components and patterns are accessible by design, following WCAG and inclusive design best practices.
• Collaborate with developers to translate design specifications into framework-agnostic Web Components.
• Provide clear documentation, guidelines, and usage examples for designers and developers.
• Partner with product designers to ensure the designs support their needs and real-world use cases.
• Participate in reviews and provide feedback on new component or pattern proposals.

Must-have Requirements

✅ Expert-level skills in Figma, including creating, maintaining, and scaling component libraries, variants, and design tokens.

✅ Proven experience designing component-based systems (design systems, style guides, or pattern libraries).

✅ Solid understanding of typography, color theory, spacing, and visual hierarchy.

✅ Strong knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG, WAI-ARIA) and ability to design inclusive, accessible UI patterns.

✅ Experience collaborating with accessibility specialists, QA, and developers to ensure accessible implementation.

✅ Ability to create clear, structured documentation for design system usage.

Strong collaboration and communication skills across disciplines.

✅ English proficiency: C1/C2 (both written and spoken communication).

Nice-to-have Requirements

💠 Experience working with Web Components or framework-agnostic design systems.

💠 Familiarity with design tokens and how they map to code.

💠 Motion design or micro-interaction skills.

💠 Knowledge of responsive design and multi-platform adaptations.

💠 Contribution to open-source or internal design system projects.

❤️ About Us

Nowa Era is the largest educational publishing company in Poland, offering modern and comprehensive materials covering all stages of education and all subjects, including foreign languages and a wide range of school cartography.

The Nowa Era Group’s offer also includes modern IT solutions, such as software supporting education management (VULCAN), as well as products for students with special educational needs, including the popular eduSensus series (formerly Young Digital Planet). Nowa Era is part of the Sanoma Learning group, headquartered in Helsinki. This allows us to benefit from advanced technological and operational structures supported by the Tech Hub, enabling us to implement innovative solutions and create modern educational products.

Interested?

Please submit your application: your CV and portfolio (online or in PDF). We are not looking for polished portfolios but rather raw cases that demonstrate your expertise.

After an initial screening and portfolio review, our interview process includes the following steps:

1️⃣ First technical interview

A video call to get to know you and your motivation

2️⃣Second interview with the product team

Practical challenge or case discussion to explore how you think and design

3️⃣Final conversation with the Director of UX