The College Board · 23 hours ago
Senior Designer
New York, NY
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$90K/yr - $119K/yr
5+ years exp
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Responsibilities
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 CoDE 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
Qualification
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Required
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.
Advanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, responsiveness, accessibility, branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design.
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.
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.
A portfolio of your work is required with your application.
Preferred
Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus.
Benefits
Health, dental, and vision insurance
Generous paid time off
Paid parental leave
Fertility benefits
Pet insurance
Tuition assistance
Retirement benefits
Recognition of exceptional performance through annual bonuses
Salary growth over time through market increases
Opportunities for merit raises and promotions based on increased scope of responsibility
Four weeks of paid time off
A generous retirement savings plan
Tuition reimbursement
Ongoing professional development and training
Company
The College Board
College Board is a non-profit organization that clears a path for all students to own their future through the Advanced Placement Program, the SAT, Official SAT Practice on Khan Academy, BigFuture, and more.
1,001-5,000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
David Coleman
Chief Executive Officer
Daniela Berger Pollack
Chief Financial Officer
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