Product Designer (Maternity Cover) at Oxford Abstracts

Product Designer (Maternity Cover)

We’re looking for an experienced Product Designer to join our team and own the design process from discovery through to delivery.

Contract: Fixed Term, part-time

Level: Mid to Senior

Duration: 2.5 days a week for 12 months

Start date: End of April 2026

Location: Fully remote

Timezone requirement: GMT +/-2 hours 

Salary: £30,000 to £45,000 (based on a 2.5-day working week, depending on experience)

Application deadline: 1st March

About Oxford Abstracts 🚀

Oxford Abstracts is a world leader in academic conference software, helping the world to share groundbreaking ideas and powering over 2,000 conferences globally each year.

At Oxford Abstracts, our mission is simple: to enable anyone to expertly manage and create exceptional academic conferences.

With over 20 years of experience, Oxford Abstracts has evolved into a dedicated global team of 18. 

We understand the unique needs of academic conference organisers, and we’re committed to helping them deliver successful, engaging events.

To find out more about the company and the team, please take a look at our Careers Page - https://oxfordabstracts.com/careers/

Our values 🏡

• Empowerment: We empower our clients by providing intuitive tools that simplify conference management, and empower our employees by fostering a culture of autonomy and growth.
• Transparency: We build trust with our clients through clear communication and honest practices, and we maintain an open workplace where every team member's voice is heard.
• Client Focused Innovation: Our clients inspire our innovative solutions, ensuring we meet their evolving needs, while our employees stay at the forefront of innovation, continually advancing their skills and contributing fresh ideas.
• Expertise: We provide industry-leading expertise to our clients, helping them become expert organisers, and we invest in our employees' professional development to ensure they continue to excel in their field.

What you will do at Oxford Abstracts💻

• Contribute to overall strategy and decision-making around product and design direction.
• Continue to improve the quality of user experience and design at Oxford Abstracts.
• Create, collaborate, and iterate on flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity visuals.
• Support in planning, running and analysing user research in partnership with our researcher. 
• Work closely with our product manager and engineering team to ship impactful features.
• Support the delivery of existing designs through development.
• Document decisions, processes, and learnings to ensure a smooth handover.

Some projects that you could work on 🎨

We’re building a product that aims to be the only tool needed to run an academic conference, which means the work is varied and always evolving. Some of the projects you could work on include:

• Improving the usability of our program builder
• Extending existing user types and permissions
• Modernising legacy features
• Designing solutions in response to roadmap priorities and user needs

What you’ll need ✅

• 5+ years of product design experience
• A portfolio showcasing product design work
• The ability to take ownership of end-to-end design processes
• Experience using Figma
• Excellent communication skills
• A love of problem-solving
• The ability to balance customer needs, business impact, and technical feasibility
• A collaborative mindset and confidence working in cross-functional teams
• Availability to work UK hours

Nice to haves ✨

• Experience working in a remote environment
• Experience working as the sole designer within a small team
• Familiarity with Tailwind UI

Benefits 💛

(based on a 2.5-day working week)

• 15 days holiday a year (including bank holidays)
• Work from home budget
• Fully remote
• Flexible working hours and days
• Additional pension benefits for those employed on the UK payroll

Hiring process 🤝

• Stage 1: Application form with CV and portfolio
• Stage 2: Introduction call (30 minutes)
• Stage 3: Portfolio case study presentation (1 hour)
• Stage 4: Final interview (1 hour)