JOB REQUIREMENTS: 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 great addition to our team! 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 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 ***** APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: Apply Online: https://www.aplitrak.com/?adid=YmJnZW5lcmljLjc2ODk5Ljg3NzBAY29sb VnZWJvYXJkY29tcC5hcGxpdHJhay5jb20