TheCollegeBoard Hiring for Senior UX Designer (Term) – REQ001357_43245530923_12-3175 at Boise, Idaho Full Time

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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

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– 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-cent