Senior Product Designer

Role Overview

• 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