UX Designer

Client: Edtech

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