Senior UX Designer

Pay Range: $60 - $70/hr. (The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications)

Profile: Seek a senior UX designer that loves working with content management systems and all related – user experience research and making content easy to find and absorb. Ideal background is Edtech and/or content management system design.

Must Have:

• Accessibility and inclusive design principles
• Complex, content-rich applications or platforms
• End-to-end UX ownership and systems thinking
• Information architecture, workflow design, and interaction patterns
• User-Cantered research methods and applying insights to design
• UX Design

Nice To Have:

• EdTech
• front-end technologies and data modeling

About the Opportunity:

• As a Senior UX Designer on the Create team, you will help shape the future of Client’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 Client’s mission

Qualifications:

• 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
• You are a clear, thoughtful communicator who collaborates effectively across disciplines
• You are adaptable, curious, and energized by complex, ambiguous problem spaces
• You bring a product design mindset, owning design from strategy through delivery