Senior UX Designer
Remote • Posted 11 hours ago • Updated 11 hours ago

Accylerate
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Skills
- UX Design
- Product Design
- Edtech
- CMS
- Figma
Summary
Client: College Board
Title: Senior UX Designer
Duration: Long Term
Location: 100% Remote
About the Opportunity
· As a Senior UX Designer on the Create team, you will help shape the future of College Board’s assessment authoring ecosystem.
· You’ll design tools that support educators, subject-matter experts, reviewers, and operational teams as they create and manage high-quality assessments.
· In this role, you’ll work in an interdisciplinary environment where design, product, and engineering collaborate closely throughout the software development lifecycle.
· You’ll balance user needs, technical constraints, and business goals while advocating for usability, accessibility, and coherence across a growing platform.
· This role emphasizes systems thinking, research-driven design, and end-to-end ownership of the user experience from discovery and strategy through execution and delivery.
In This Role, You Will:
Design & Implementation (70%)
· Develop a deep understanding of users, their workflows, and their needs through research and ongoing partnership
· Identify target users and form hypotheses around user needs and behaviors
· Own and lead generative and evaluative research for your products
· Analyze business, technical, and operational requirements to inform design solutions
· Collect and synthesize multiple data sources (e.g., research, surveys, analytics, accessibility reviews)
· Facilitate synthesis and alignment sessions using agile and lean methodologies
· Create user journeys, service maps, and flows that capture current and future states
· Produce wireframes, interactive prototypes, visual designs, and detailed specifications
· Partner with Accessibility specialists to ensure inclusive, compliant experiences
· Present design concepts, rationale, and outcomes to product teams and stakeholders
· Conduct design handoffs to engineering using tools such as Figma
· Collaborate with other designers to align on shared patterns, systems, and standards
Strategy & Communication (20%)
· Contribute to UX and product strategy across the assessment authoring ecosystem
· Help evolve shared patterns and systems to support consistency across tools and platforms
· Clearly document and communicate design decisions and tradeoffs
· Actively participate in agile ceremonies, advocating for user needs and design quality
· Champion a culture of user empathy, curiosity, and continuous learning
· Advocate for effective, lightweight design processes that work in an embedded model
Project Management (10%)
· Independently manage priorities and scope across multiple initiatives
· Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure timely delivery
· Foster strong collaboration across disciplines to align outcomes with product goals and College Board’s mission
About You
· You are comfortable being embedded within a highly technical product team
· You thrive in close partnership with engineers and product managers
· You bring a strong point of view while remaining open to feedback and iteration
· You have a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end UX ownership and systems thinking
· You hold a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience
· You have 5+ years of relevant UX or product design experience
· You have experience designing complex, content-rich applications or platforms
· You excel in information architecture, workflow design, and interaction patterns
· You are fluent in user-centered research methods and applying insights to design
· You understand accessibility and inclusive design principles
· Familiarity with front-end technologies and data modeling is a plus
- Dice Id: 91140042
- Position Id: 8855957
- Posted 11 hours ago
Company Info
About Accylerate
Accylerate is an agile, woman-owned small business navigating a unique niche at the intersection of government, technology, and talent. We’re honored to have debuted in the Top 1/3rd of the 2024 Inc. 5000 list of America’s Fastest-Growing Companies! Our mission is simple: to help Government Agencies and Non-Profits succeed by pairing emerging technologies with specialized professionals who bring them to life. From cloud migration and cybersecurity to AI-driven insights and data modernization, we deliver tailored solutions and specialized talent that help Government agencies and Non-Profits achieve mission success. We consistently deliver measurable impact through data-driven decision-making, automation, and innovation at scale.
Headquartered in the Washington, D.C. metro area with a nationwide footprint, Accylerate is built on relationships, trust, and impact. Our team connects Government agencies and Non- Profit organizations with the right professionals and emerging technologies to accelerate transformation and mission success. With Accylerate, you don’t just gain a technology services firm — you gain a strategic ally committed to delivering secure, scalable, and future-ready solutions, powered by the right experts at the right time.
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