Senior User Experience Specialist

Senior User Experience Specialist

Company:

The Boeing Company

The Boeing Company is currently seeking a Senior User Experience Specialist to join the team in Seattle, WA or Tukwila, WA. 

We are seeking a Senior UX Specialist who specializes in training authoring and publishing workflows for commercial airline flight crews (pilots, flight attendants) and maintenance personnel. The ideal candidate combines user-centered design and human factors expertise with hands-on experience producing, packaging, and deploying instructor-led and digital training assets that meet regulatory, safety, and operational requirements.

Position Responsibilities:

• Lead end-to-end authoring and publishing of training materials for flight crews and maintenance crews: eLearning modules, interactive procedures, job aids, simulator scenario packages, and classroom materials

• Translate operational procedures, technical manuals, and SME inputs into structured instructional content ready for LMS delivery and in-simulator consumption

• Perform functional analysis and task modeling to derive learning objectives, performance criteria, and traceability between operational tasks and training artifacts

• Manage content pipelines: source control/versioning, content management systems, single-source publishing, and multi-format output (SCORM, xAPI, PDF, mobile-friendly HTML5)

• Develop and maintain reusable learning object libraries, templates, and style guides that ensure consistency, compliance, and rapid assembly of new training packages

• Integrate training content with simulator systems and courseware scheduling; coordinate with simulation engineers to ensure scenario fidelity and interoperability

• Lead quality assurance for published content: accessibility checks, compatibility testing across browsers/devices, LMS upload/manifest validation, and acceptance testing in training environments

• Collaborate with instructional designers, SMEs, regulatory specialists, and operations to ensure that published training meets regulatory standards (FAA, EASA, ICAO where applicable) and operator policies

• Define deployment and post-deployment processes: release notes, version rollbacks, learner notification, and metrics collection for continuous improvement

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 5+ years of experience with UX Design

• 5+ years of experience with performing research and analysis on processes, applications, systems and data to identify functional requirements for application or system design

• 5+ years of experience in the fields of Aerospace, Human Factor, UxD, Computer Science, Business Psychology, Economics, Entrepreneurship, or Innovation Management

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work or military experience

• Experience working with SaaS solutions, content authoring tools, learning experience platforms and learning management systems

• Experience with UX tools (e.g. Figma, Invision, Sketch, etc.)

• Experience with performing functional analysis on complex business processes to inform the design of training content authoring solutions

• Experience with technical publications standards (S1000D, DITA, etc.) or structured authoring practices

• Experience working within the aerospace industry, airline industry, or similar industry

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana, cocaine, opioids, amphetamines, PCP, and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing, we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract, engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.  

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Summary pay range: $138,550 – $187,450

Language Requirements:

Not Applicable

Education:

Not Applicable

Relocation:

Relocation assistance is not a negotiable benefit for this position.

Export Control Requirement:

This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.

Safety Sensitive:

This is not a Safety Sensitive Position.

Security Clearance:

This position does not require a Security Clearance.

Visa Sponsorship:

Employer will not sponsor applicants for employment visa status.

Contingent Upon Award Program

This position is not contingent upon program award

Shift:

Shift 1 (United States of America)

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