Production Editor - Design Services (UK) bei Pearson

Job title: Production Editor
Business unit: UK Assessment & Qualifications
Location: London/Hellaby
Report to: Typesetting Manager

About Pearson

Pearson is a global education company with 150 years of publishing expertise and leading digital technology, supporting learning anywhere and in any form. We are accelerating growth in digital learning, education services, and emerging markets to address major global education challenges. Our strengths include exceptional people, strong educational partnerships, technological innovation, and worldwide reach. We believe education empowers individuals, unlocks potential, and builds connected communities. At the heart of our ecosystem, Assessment & Qualifications is our largest business by revenue and reach, delivering assessments that enable learners to demonstrate knowledge from school through to professional careers.

About the Role

To process, typeset, and deliver high-stakes assessment materials for our qualification markets. This involves transforming content into high-quality, accessible print and digital deliverables. The role requires managing content through its lifecycle in our workflow systems and providing excellent customer service to support the content team throughout the production process. If you’re a detail-oriented editor with a passion for technology and a desire to help shape the future of content production at Pearson, we’d love to hear from you.

Key Responsibilities

Design and delivery of GQ and VQ high stakes assessment material

•    Process and typeset high-quality assessment material from structured content sources (XML, AsciiDoc) and traditional formats.
•    Utilise Adobe InDesign for complex typesetting, ensuring the accurate application of automated and manual styling.
•    Produce final, accessible deliverables in PDF and HTML formats, adhering to strict quality and security standards.
•    Manage workflow and tasks efficiently within Jira.
•    Build and maintain effective working relationships with Assessment and Product team colleagues.

Asset creation & management

•    Undertake the creation of digital assets (e.g., illustrations, graphics) using Adobe Illustrator, ensuring they adhere to house styles and company guidelines for future re-use.
•    Champion and implement accessibility best practices in the creation of all assets.

Supplier management

Supporting the Typesetting Manager and Senior Typesetters by:

•    Reviewing materials produced by suppliers to ensure they meet house style, accessibility, and new technical workflow guidelines.
•    Create and contribute to training materials for suppliers on our evolving tools and processes.

Additional/lateral responsibilities

•    Contribute to cross-department work and initiatives as required.
•    Champion process improvement by actively engaging with our "content as code" philosophy.
•    Identify opportunities for automation in the typesetting and content transformation process.
•    Collaborate on evolving our structured content workflows and tooling.

 Key requirements (skills & experience)

Core

•    Willingness to take ownership of projects and see tasks through to completion.
•    Excellent communication skills (including a high level of competence with written and spoken English).
•    Meticulous attention to detail, thoroughness, and accuracy.
•    Strategic thinking and the ability to build strong working relationships.

Design & Accessibility

•    Excellent technical design skills, with strong typography skills and an eye for layout.
•    A strong advocate for and practitioner of accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG) in both print and digital formats.
•    Experience with/or understanding of Modified Large Print and/or Interactive modifications for print and digital content.

Technical

•    Expert knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite, particularly InDesign, Acrobat Pro, and Illustrator.
•    Experience with workflow management tools, specifically Jira.
•    Experience with, or a strong aptitude for learning, structured content formats (e.g., XML, AsciiDoc) and working within IDEs (e.g., VS Code).
•    Comfort using command-line tools for content processing and transformation.
•    A solid understanding of HTML and CSS is essential for producing accessible digital deliverables.

Customer Service Skills

•    Able to take on delegated duties outside of the day-to-day.
•    Ability to provide exceptional support and guidance to the content team during submission and return of work.
•    Strong interpersonal skills to build effective relationships with Content Production Managers and other stakeholders.

Our Expanding Capabilities
The Design Services team is growing and investing in new tools, skills, and ways of working to deliver high-quality assessment materials faster and more effectively. We’re combining the best of design expertise with modern technology to improve efficiency, accessibility, and consistency across all outputs. The successful candidate will be part of this growth, helping to shape new approaches, support innovation, and ensure that our content continues to meet the highest standards for learners and educators alike.

Skills & experience we’re looking for

• University degree, undergraduate, A- Levels related to vacancy preferred.
• Strong typographic and layout skills, with exceptional attention to detail.
• Advanced user of Adobe Creative Cloud (InDesign, Illustrator, Acrobat Pro).
• Comfortable working with structured content and code-adjacent tools (XML/AsciiDoc, VS Code, basic command-line processing).
• Solid understanding of HTML/CSS and accessibility requirements for digital deliverables.
• Excellent communication skills, able to support internal teams and collaborate effectively with suppliers.
• Experience with Modified Large Print and interactive modifications is a strong advantage.

Your benefits and rewards  

At Pearson, we offer a range of benefits, which include:

• 25 Days annual leave (increasing by 1 day with every year of continuous service up to 30 days); annual leave trading, +/- 5 days Annual Bonus  
• Private Pension plan scheme where we pay in double what you contribute, up to 16% depending on your age
• Private medical and dental care insurance options, plus free eye tests  
• Stock/share purchase options  
• Maternity, paternity, and family care leave as well as flexible working policies  
• An employee wellbeing assistance programme  
• Cycle to work program, volunteering days, gym membership concessions in selected office locations, along with retail and leisure discounts  

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