[Hiring] Senior UX Research and Design Specialist @Cambium Learning Group

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior UX Research & Design Specialist with a dual passion for user advocacy and tangible web design. In this role, you will lead end-to-end qualitative and quantitative research cycles within our K-12 educational data and assessment platforms. Beyond traditional data synthesis, you possess a strong sense of visual and layout design, allowing you to translate raw researcher findings directly into clean, interactive, and tangible UI prototypes. You will act as a critical bridge between educator insights and production-ready web design.

Job Responsibilities

• Advanced User Research & Methodology
  • Execute End-to-End Research: Lead qualitative and quantitative research initiatives (focus groups, structured interviews, surveys, and usability testing) involving teachers, instructional coaches, and school administrators.
  • Conduct Market & Competitive Analysis: Perform targeted market and competitive research to evaluate industry trends, benchmark rival EdTech solutions, and identify strategic positioning opportunities for our platform features.
  • Drive Feedback Syntheses: Design and facilitate educator panels to capture nuanced workflows, translating feedback into clear product design opportunities.
  • Iterate and Track Perceptions: Build systematic, iterative research loops to measure shifts in user perception and long-term platform adoption.
  • Manage Diverse Recruitment: Orchestrate participant recruitment strategies across varied K-12 demographics (elementary, middle, and high school tenures).
• Tangible Web Design & Interactive Prototyping
  • Translate Insights into Mockups: Convert user pain points and research metrics into high-fidelity web designs, intuitive screen flows, and interactive layouts.
  • Bridge Design and Engineering: Collaborate directly with front-end web designers by delivering design specifications that map closely to web structure realities.
  • Refine Interface Hierarchy: Evaluate and rapidly iterate on layout sequences, visual hierarchies, UI text labeling, and main navigation structures.
• K-12 Assessment & Data Literacy
  • Demystify Student Data: Apply deep knowledge of K-12 grading architectures and standards-based reporting to build accessible teacher dashboards.
  • Align with Classroom Realities: Design specifically for time-constrained educators who need immediate visual data displays for student remediation and administrative groupings.
• Data Visualization & Web Usability
  • Apply Visualization Best Practices: Craft clean, visual progress bars, color-coded matrices, and grouping indicators tailored for non-technical users.
  • Enforce Digital Accessibility: Ensure all generated data visualizations and interface layouts meet inclusive, accessible design guidelines.

Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years of dedicated professional experience in UX research, interface design, or digital analytics architectures.
• Preferred Degrees: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, or a related behavioral/technology-focused discipline.
• Design Stack Literacy: Mastery of contemporary UI wireframing and prototyping ecosystems (e.g., Figma).
• Cross-Functional Communication: Proven ability to present research artifacts (personas, journey maps, insight decks) to technical development squads and leadership.

Requirements

• Classroom & Instructional Experience: Prior experience as a K-12 classroom teacher, instructional coach, or school-level educator, providing firsthand empathy for school schedules, administrative burdens, and classroom data usage.
• Front-End Development Frameworks: Functional technical understanding of front-end development, specifically the ability to read, interpret, and write HTML5 and CSS3 code to facilitate seamless developer handoffs.
• AI Tooling Efficiency: Demonstrated proficiency leveraging AI productivity systems and predictive tools to generate user scripts, synthesize large datasets, and build rapid UI prototypes.
• EdTech Domain Experience: Direct familiarity with standards-based grading metrics, formative assessment patterns, and large-scale district or state educational technology rollouts.
• Compliance Standards: Working familiarity with compliance rules governing K-12 web ecosystems, including WCAG accessibility benchmarks and FERPA privacy guardrails.

Benefits

• To apply for this opportunity, simply click on the “Apply” button and submit a cover letter and resume.
• An Equal Opportunity Employer.
• We are dedicated to fostering a culture that celebrates unique backgrounds, ideas, and experiences.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability.