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The College Board Senior Designer TERM in Denver, Colorado
Description: External Posting Role Title: Senior UX Designer
College Board - Division: Technology
Location: Remote
This is a full time, remote, fixed term position with duration of 1 year.
Please ensure you submit a portfolio , we are unable to consider your application without a supporting portfolio of your work.
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 gre
About the Opportunity
You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about research, UX and visual design. 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 servic
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,