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About the Role

As a Senior Admissions Test Content Specialist, you will play an important role in helping higher education programs better understand applicants’ human skills. You will work alongside researchers, assessment specialists, and fellow content experts to build the assessments that applicants complete and institutions rely on for admissions decisions. Your work will involve using language, critical thinking, and judgment to ensure assessments are clear, balanced, and fair for high-stakes admissions decisions. Beyond writing and reviewing content, you will own recurring content workflows to maintain assessment accuracy and consistency, coordinating review cycles and making decisions that balance evidence, quality, and fairness.

Responsibilities

Transform individual pieces of content into complete admissions assessments.
Evaluate language, identify inconsistencies, and balance competing considerations.
Refine wording to remove ambiguity.
Review how scenarios work together across an entire assessment.
Identify gaps and improve supporting resources.
Prepare new content for future test cycles.
Explore new tools, including AI, to improve assessment building processes.
Compile complete Casper assessments in partnership with a reviewer.
Balance content, timing, and assessment objectives.
Refine language and structure for clarity, consistency, and accessibility.
Apply thoughtful judgment when categorizing scenarios and connecting them to human skills.
Coordinate recurring review workflows.
Bring together perspectives from colleagues and subject matter experts.
Ensure supporting materials are accurate, consistent, and ready for use.
Develop and refine supporting content and documentation.
Explore opportunities to improve work processes, including using AI.
Collaborate with researchers, writers, reviewers, and production specialists.

Requirements

Professional fluency in English and French.
Experience working with language through professional experience where language mattered.
Experience in an environment where judgment mattered.
Experience weighing competing considerations and applying frameworks or guidelines consistently.
Experience making careful decisions where there isn’t always a single obvious answer.
Experience managing work where accuracy and consistency were critical.
Experience producing reliable, high-quality work while balancing competing priorities and recurring responsibilities.
Experience using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Copilot) in daily workflow for research, organization, idea exploration, writing improvement, or reducing repetitive work.
Experience developing the judgment to know when AI is helping, needs direction, or when human thinking should lead.
Enjoy exploring new technology and experimenting with better ways of working.
Thoughtful judgment: Enjoy working through complex questions, are energized by nuance, curious about different perspectives, and resist jumping to easy conclusions.
Curiosity: Naturally investigate inconsistencies, look for patterns, and enjoy understanding why something works before deciding how it could work better.
Perspective-taking: Able to anticipate how different people might interpret language, experience a scenario, or respond to an assessment.
Collaboration & Feedback: Enjoy discussing ideas, giving and receiving feedback, and improving thinking through conversations.
Organization & Reliability: Able to manage recurring work, balance multiple priorities, and consistently follow through on commitments.
Adaptability: Enjoy learning, evolving, and improving work methods; quick to adapt to shifting priorities, changing processes, and new challenges.

Skills

Written communication skills
Precision
Clarity
Consistency
Minimizing ambiguity
Critical thinking
Judgment
Analytical thinking
Language
Editorial decisions
AI tools
Technology exploration

Location

Canada

Work Type

Fully remote

Experience Level

Senior

Salary/Compensations

$75,000 - $85,000 CAD

Benefits

$3,000 annual learning budget
Employee stock options
Up to six weeks per year to work internationally
Self-directed vacation (most teammates take 4–6 weeks annually)
Monthly Acuity Days (a collective Friday off)
Two-week company-wide closure each December
Health benefits from day one for you and your dependents
2% GRSP matching program
16-week parental leave top-up beyond EI

About the Company

Acuity Insights builds products that help higher education institutions make better decisions about people, from admissions through to development.
Our work is grounded in a simple idea: that people are more than their grades, and that potential can be understood and developed, not just measured.
Our Casper situational judgment test (SJT), created by researchers at McMaster University, has been completed by over 1 million applicants and is one of the most widely used open-response SJTs in higher education, backed by nearly 20 years of research.
We are evolving our products to better connect assessment, insight, and development, helping institutions not just identify potential, but actively support its growth over time.
We are building toward a more connected ecosystem across assessment, education, and learner development.
We are a remote-first team of 135+ people who care deeply about our work and about each other.
Our culture is intentionally designed, prioritizing trust, flexibility, and a sustainable pace.
Acuity Insights has been named one of Canada’s Top Small & Medium Employers for the second consecutive year.

Equal Opportunity

We review every application carefully. Whether you apply directly, are referred, or connect through a recruiter or hiring manager, you’ll receive equal consideration.
A diversity of perspectives makes us stronger.
We know that better assessments are built by teams with diverse perspectives and lived experiences.