Senior UX Research and Design Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead qualitative and quantitative research efforts, including focus groups, structured interviews, surveys, and usability testing, involving teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators.

• Conduct targeted market and competitive research to assess industry trends, benchmark rival EdTech solutions, and identify opportunities for strategic positioning.

• Design and facilitate educator panels, translating feedback into actionable product design opportunities.

• Establish iterative research loops to track changes in user perception and long-term platform adoption.

• Coordinate participant recruitment across elementary, middle, and high school demographics.

• Transform user pain points and research metrics into high-fidelity web designs, intuitive screen flows, and interactive layouts.

• Provide design specifications to front-end web designers, ensuring alignment between design and engineering.

• Assess and refine layout sequences, visual hierarchies, UI text labeling, and primary navigation structures.

• Utilize K-12 grading and standards-based reporting knowledge to create accessible teacher dashboards.

• Develop visual data representations for time-constrained educators supporting student remediation and administrative groupings.

• Create progress indicators, color-coded matrices, and grouping markers for non-technical users.

• Ensure that data visualizations and interface layouts comply with inclusive and accessible design guidelines.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of focused professional experience in UX research, interface design, or digital analytics architectures.

• Expertise in modern UI wireframing and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma).

• Proven track record of presenting research artifacts (personas, journey maps, insight decks) to technical development teams and leadership.

• Previous experience as a K-12 classroom teacher, instructional coach, or school-level educator is preferred.

• Functional technical understanding of front-end development with the ability to read, interpret, and write HTML5 and CSS3 code.

• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI productivity systems and predictive tools to create user scripts, synthesize large datasets, and develop rapid UI prototypes.

• Direct familiarity with standards-based grading metrics, formative assessment practices, and large-scale district or state educational technology implementations.

• Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards and FERPA privacy regulations.

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or a related behavioral/technology-focused field is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.

• Flexible work hours and remote work options.

• Supportive and inclusive work environment fostering innovation.