Senior Product Designer
The College Board
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $95,000 - $130,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- As a Senior Product Designer at the College Board, you are a highly skilled, thoughtful, and user-centered practitioner with a passion for designing products and experiences that meet real user needs.
- You will facilitate product discovery, shape design strategy, and guide solutions from concept through delivery.
- You will work across one or more cross-functional teams and products, helping to connect the dots between research, design, engineering, and organization mission.
- You are confident working independently on features, while also seeking feedback and alignment with teammates and design leadership.
- You are an advocate for users and inclusive design.
- As a creative problem solver, you identify patterns across large systems and balance the big picture with hands-on execution— bringing clarity to complex challenges while staying focused on impact.
- Your responsibilities will span early-stage discovery, end-to-end product design, usability testing, accessibility, and the creation of design artifacts that support high-quality implementation.
- You will also contribute to our design culture through mentorship, continuous learning, and collaborative design practices.
Requirements
- A portfolio of your work included in your application.
- A Bachelor’s degree in a related field (interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, computer science, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience.
- 3–7 years of experience in product or service design.
- A product design mindset and experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications, including strong skills in creating and communicating design artifacts, such as user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs.
- Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to reframe challenges and translate insights into actionable design direction.
- Strong skills in information design, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI design, with fluency in tools like Figma (preferred), Miro, and Dovetail.
- Experience applying generative and evaluative research methods, along with facilitation skills to lead workshops and co-creation sessions.
- A strong understanding of design systems, responsive design, and accessibility standards, including designing for web and native mobile platforms.
- Comfortable discussing technical constraints and collaborating with engineers to ensure design feasibility (experience with front-end technologies is a plus).
- A commitment to inclusive, ethical, and user-centered design, with the ability to write and test content using plain language principles.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with a user advocacy mindset and the ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams.
- Curiosity and adaptability— you’re self-motivated, continuously learning, and excited by emerging tools and trends, including generative AI.
- The ability to travel at a minimum of 3-5 times a year to College Board offices or on behalf of College Board business (including but not limited to traveling to client/user sites to engage with stakeholders).
- Authorization to work in the United States.
Benefits
- Annual bonuses and opportunities for merit-based raises and promotions
- A mission-driven workplace where your impact matters
- A team that invests in your development and success
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
product designuser flowswireframesprototypeshigh-fidelity UI designdesign thinkinghuman-centered methodologiesinformation designdesign systemsresponsive design
Soft Skills
user advocacycollaborationcommunicationcreative problem solvingcuriosityadaptabilitymentorshipfacilitationcontinuous learningindependent work