Senior UX Designer

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