[Hiring] Manager, UX Research Operations @Curriculum Associates

Role Description

The User Experience Research Team is seeking a UX Research Operations Manager to help with our mission of making classrooms a better place for students and teachers. Be part of the ongoing evolution of i-Ready by playing a pivotal role in helping the research process run smoothly and improve in efficiency.

The impact you’ll have:

• Manage end-to-end recruitment of educators and students for research studies: usability testing, 1:1 interviews, focus groups, surveys, co-design, pilots/betas
• Own relationships and logistics management with site and vendor partners
• Continuously evaluate research management tools and processes to ensure they are efficient, high quality, and scalable, and offer solutions to improve these tools and processes
• Collaborate on outreach for locating new in-person testing partner sites
• Develop new/maintain existing participant databases, templates, screeners, scheduling procedures
• Own onsite and remote study logistics

Qualifications

• You have 3-5 years of relevant work experience in research operations
• You’re a self-starter who can take an assignment and run with it, even expanding on it or helping to shape the request when appropriate
• You enjoy and excel at cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• You’re comfortable speaking up when you have questions and ideas
• You’re interested in the “why” behind problems and can think through a system
• You are adept with project management skills and working with databases/spreadsheets
• Experience securely managing personally identifiable information or information otherwise subject to regulatory considerations

Requirements

• Experience with K-12 education is a plus
• History of managing cross-time-zone collaboration across nationally distributed teams

Benefits

• Pay Range – This role’s range is $69,250-$118,250.
• Benefit eligible employees (and their families) are covered by medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance.
• Employees can enroll in our company’s 401k plan and receive an employer match.
• Employees have access to a flexible vacation and sick policy in addition to twelve paid holidays and a winter office closure between Christmas and New Year's.
• A number of additional perks and benefits.

Location

Remote with occasional travel to our company offices and/or school site visits.

Application Deadline

July 17, 2026. This is subject to close earlier if there is a high volume of applicants or a qualified hire is made.