Senior UX Designer

Overview

Placement Type: Temporary

Salary: $63-70 Hourly

Start Date: Feb 17, 2026

Aquent is proud to partner with a leading organization dedicated to advancing educational opportunities and empowering learners nationwide. This innovative client builds the foundational tools, platforms, and systems that power content creation and management at scale, supporting a vast network of educators, subject‑matter experts, and operational teams. If you're a visionary UX professional eager to make a profound impact on the future of educational content creation, this is your chance to drive user experience from strategy to execution, transforming complex systems into intuitive and accessible platforms that will directly influence how educational materials are developed and delivered.

In this pivotal role, you will help shape the future of advanced content development platforms. You'll design sophisticated tools that empower educators, subject‑matter experts, reviewers, and operational teams as they create and manage high‑quality educational content. This is an interdisciplinary environment where design, product, and engineering collaborate closely throughout the software development lifecycle. You will balance user needs, technical constraints, and business goals while advocating for usability, accessibility, and coherence across a growing platform.

This position emphasizes systems thinking, research‑driven design, and end‑to‑end ownership of the user experience from discovery and strategy through execution and delivery.

• Develop a deep understanding of users, their workflows, and their needs through research and ongoing partnership.
• Identify target users and form hypotheses around user needs and behaviors.
• Own and lead generative and evaluative research for your products.
• Analyze business, technical, and operational requirements to inform design solutions.
• Collect and synthesize multiple data sources (e.g., research, surveys, analytics, accessibility reviews).
• Facilitate synthesis and alignment sessions using agile and lean methodologies.
• Create user journeys, service maps, and flows that capture current and future states.
• Produce wireframes, interactive prototypes, visual designs, and detailed specifications.
• Partner with Accessibility specialists to ensure inclusive, compliant experiences.
• Present design concepts, rationale, and outcomes to product teams and stakeholders.
• Conduct design handoffs to engineering using appropriate tools.
• Collaborate with other designers to align on shared patterns, systems, and standards.
• Contribute to UX and product strategy across complex content creation and management systems.
• Help evolve shared patterns and systems to support consistency across tools and platforms.
• Clearly document and communicate design decisions and tradeoffs.
• Actively participate in agile ceremonies, advocating for user needs and design quality.
• Champion a culture of user empathy, curiosity, and continuous learning.
• Advocate for effective, lightweight design processes that work in an embedded model.
• Independently manage priorities and scope across multiple initiatives.
• Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure timely delivery.
• Foster strong collaboration across disciplines to align outcomes with product goals and the organization's mission.

You are a proactive, empathetic, and skilled designer who thrives in a collaborative, fast‑paced environment. Your ability to translate complex problems into elegant solutions will be key to your success.

• Comfortable being embedded within a highly technical product team.
• Thrive in close partnership with engineers and product managers.
• Bring a strong point of view while remaining open to feedback and iteration.
• A portfolio demonstrating end‑to‑end UX ownership and systems thinking.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of relevant UX or product design experience.
• Experience designing complex, content‑rich applications or platforms.
• Excel in information architecture, workflow design, and interaction patterns.
• Fluent in user‑centered research methods and…