Freelance Product Designer

Freelance Product Designer (contract to end of March 2027)

Help us design beautifully simple products that support teachers to change children’s lives.

Oak National Academy is looking for an experienced Freelance Product Designer to work with our design team on a 9-month contract, starting as soon as possible.

You’ll work closely with our Principal Product Designer and cross-functional product squads to design accessible, intuitive digital experiences used by teachers and pupils across the UK. This role is well-suited to a designer who enjoys working at pace, collaborating with others, and designing for large, diverse user bases.

🔧 What You’ll Be Doing

Create UI/UX designs that adapt to different screen sizes based on user insights and direction from our Principal Product Designer.

• These designs will focus on creating accessible, easy-to-use products for end users.
• Review pull requests and ensure designs are implemented accurately and on-brand. 
• Work with cross-functional and product-oriented squads to implement your designs.

🌱 What We’re Looking For

• 3+ years of product and feature design experience in digital products and services.
• Experience as a Product Designer with demonstrable knowledge of best practices for user experience design and user interface technology for mobile and desktop devices.
• Demonstrated experience working with highly accessible design systems that support a large user base.
• Highly capable of using the latest product design tools, including Figma, Figma Make, and Claude Design.

Next steps

You’ll answer some questions – a few quick admin ones and two discipline-related ones, including an example from your portfolio of a relevant past project. After the job closes, your answers will go through our sifting process: all answers will be anonymised and randomised, then reviewed by a panel of reviewers.

If you are shortlisted, we’ll invite you to a remote Zoom interview. 

We are experiencing really good responses to our job adverts. This may lead us to closing the role early, so if you are considering applying, please get your application in early to avoid missing out.