Senior UX Designer 

College Board – Division: Technology 

Location: Remote 

This is a fixed term position with duration of One year 

Please include a portfolio of your work in your application that shows examples of your experience leading design research initiatives, we are unable to consider applications without a portfolio link.

About the Team

The Design Team is a close-knit group of about 40 members with a passion for empowering students to plan for their future. The College Board is seeking a Senior UX/UI Designer who is passionate about research to help build our digital assessment ecosystem. You will be part of the Item Cloud Blue apps team which builds complex tools the Assessment Design & Development (AD&D) team uses to develop College Readiness Assessments (CRA) items. Our mission is to create the platform and systems that enable the authoring, reviewing, and management of test questions, answers, and related data. We highly value candor, curiosity, and collaboration. If you enjoy solving big problems and working with inspiring people, you will be a great addition to our team!

About the Opportunity

You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about research, UX and visual design. As a UX designer, you are independent in your support of a cross-functional team, You embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and you respect and value your project partners. You will be working alongside a diverse, cross-functional team in an agile environment. You have impressive communication and presentation abilities, enabling you to cultivate team unity, promote alignment, and skillfully conduct discussions with users and partners. You will be responsible for conducting research to understand user needs, behaviors, and motivations, and using that research to inform the design and accessibility of our products and services.

Design & Implementation (70%)  

• Identify target users and help build hypotheses around user needs for projects
• Own and lead Research (generative and evaluative) for your team/products
• Analyze business and technical requirements
• In addition to Research, collect other types of data to inform design decisions/solutions (e.g., surveys, analytics dashboards, accessibility reviews)
• Lead synthesis sessions with your team, following agile and lean methodologies
• Create user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways

• Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teams
• Partner with the Accessibility team to ensure designs are compliant
• Create and present concepts/deliverables to your working team and our stakeholders
• Conduct handoffs to developers through tools like Figma and Zeplin
• Work collaboratively with our Core Design team to ensure brand and pattern alignment

Strategy & Communication (20%)  

• Contribute to the overall design and UX strategy for our product designs, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our products
• Document and present UI and design updates to stakeholders and users
• Collaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experience
• Participate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are met
• Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers
• Advocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patterns

Project Management (10%)  

• Self-manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work
• Coordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts
• Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align our visual design approach with project goals, and the College Board brand

About You

You have

• A bachelor’s degree in a related field (computer science, interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience
• 5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience
• Documented experience in designing for large, content-rich websites and applications; proven solutions that met users’ needs; Experience designing enterprise products is a huge plus
• Extensive experience in information design and user scenarios
• Broad knowledge of digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet)
• Extensive experience with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews . Understanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisions
• Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus
• Strong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners; Self-managing, but also used to working within a team
• Highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independently, facing new challenges and thrive on opportunities to think creatively and come up with fresh approaches to tough business and operational problems
• Possess a ‘Product Design’ mindset, who owns the end-to-end design delivery: from strategy to comps
• Must be proficient in all industry-standard software and applications, such as Figma, FigJam, Miro, Zeplin, Jira, Confluence, etc.
• You are eligible to work for any employer in the USA

About Our Benefits and Compensation

College Board offers a competitive benefits and compensation program that attracts top talent looking to make a difference in education. As a self-sustaining non-profit, we believe in compensating employees equitably in relation to each other, their qualifications, their impact, and the relevant market.

The hiring range for a new employee in this position is $90,000 to $119.000 College Board differentiates salaries by location so where you live will narrow the portion of this range in which you can expect a salary.

Your salary will be carefully determined based on your location, relevant experience, the external labor market, and the pay of College Board employees in similar roles. College Board strives to provide our best offer up front based on this criteria.

Your salary is only one part of all that College Board offers, including but not limited to:

• A comprehensive package designed to support the well-being of employees and their families and promote education. Our robust benefits package includes health, dental, and vision insurance, generous paid time off, paid parental leave, fertility benefits, pet insurance, tuition assistance, retirement benefits, and more
• Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses, salary growth over time through market increases, and opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
• A job that matters, a team that cares, and a place to learn, innovate and thrive

You can expect to have transparent conversations about benefits and compensation with our recruiters throughout your application process.