Senior UX|UI Designer (Contract)

Position: Senior UX/UI Designer (Contract)

Mode: Contract

Location: Remote

Team: College Board – Design, Technology

About the Team

The Design team is a close-knit group of about 40 members with a passion for empowering students. The College Board is looking for an entrepreneurial, Senior UX/UI Designer to help build the future of our K12 and College Readiness and Assessment (CRA) ecosystem. The designer in this role will partner with the design lead and work in close collaboration with product owners, ensuring that our visions and strategies are perfectly aligned. In addition to the product owners, our design team maintains a synergistic relationship with the content, technology, and accessibility teams. This collaboration is central to our workflow, enabling us to create solutions that are not only technologically advanced but also rich in content and user experience.

About the opportunity

As our Senior UX/UI Designer, you'll work closely with our design team, product leads, and engineering partners to develop creative solutions that meet business goals and user needs. You'll have the opportunity to learn about our global design system and contribute to its growth. Additionally, you'll play a vital role in maintaining a consistent College Board digital testing and reporting brand across various channels, helping us reach our audience effectively.

About You

You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research. You embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and you respect and value your project partners. Through research and discovery, you stay informed about your end users and leverage data to enhance usability, accessibility, and overall product quality.

You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research. You embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and you respect and value your project partners. Through research and discovery, you stay informed about your end users and leverage data to enhance usability, accessibility, and overall product quality.

In this role, you will:

Support Design, Research, and Implementation (60%)

• Support Design Research (generative and evaluative) initiatives for your team/products
• Analyze business and technical requirements, 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 and Design Standards teams to ensure designs are compliant and ensure brand and pattern alignment
• Create and present concepts/deliverables to your working team and our stakeholders
• Collaborate with developers through tools like Figma and Zeplin

Contribute to Product Design Strategy and Stakeholder Communication (30%)

• Contribute to the overall UX/UI design strategy, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our products
• Document and present 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

Self-manage projects and timelines efficiently (10%)

• 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

• As a UX/UI product designer, you are independent in your support of a cross-functional team and you possess a ‘Product Design’ mindset, owning the end-to-end design delivery: from strategy to comps.
• Advanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, responsiveness, accessibility, branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design.
• 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.
• You are detailed oriented and passionate about visual design, UX, and research and have extensive experience in information design and user scenarios, digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet).
• 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.

Anticipated Pay Range: $60-$68 per hr (Depending on experience)

About the College Board

We are a mission-focused, not-for-profit membership organization that believes in promoting innovation, equity, and excellence for generations of students. Our members include more than 6,000 of the world’s leading colleges, schools, and other educational organizations. We have over 1,600 employees in offices across the continental U.S. and Puerto Rico.

We are advocates for children and parents; we empower teachers and educators, and we are a strong presence in thousands of schools and communities across the country through programs and services - the SAT, Advanced Placement (AP®) and Pre-AP are just a few. Our work falls broadly into four categories: College Readiness, College Connection & Success, Student Opportunities, and Advocacy.

Named by Fast Company as one of the most innovative education companies, the College Board is a mission-focused organization. This job requires a strong focus on improving educational opportunities and outcomes, particularly for disadvantaged students, in the context of a competitive business environment.

Mission

Our mission is to clear a path for all students to own their future.

Selected candidates will be employed as a contingent worker of nextSource which is College Board’s Managed Staffing Solutions Provider unless role is listed as “direct hire”. nextSource is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure and life experiences. Or for any other reason. nextSource is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at talent@nextSource.com