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at The College Board in Topeka, Kansas, United StatesJob Description 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 applicationthat 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 createthe 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 $119.000College 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.
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