Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HR Acuity provides employee relations case management and investigation software for organizations. The Lead UX Designer will set the product UX strategy, lead and develop a team of designers and a researcher, maintain the design system, and remain hands-on with high-impact design work. The role also partners with research, product management, and engineering to deliver accessible, user-centered product experiences.
Responsibilities
- Set and communicate the overall UX design strategy for the product, aligning it with the company vision and product roadmap
- Maintain HR Acuity's Design System in tight collaboration with engineering — components, patterns, tokens, guidelines, and documentation — and drive its adoption across design and engineering
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of three UX Designers and one UX Researcher, setting clear expectations, giving thoughtful feedback, and supporting their development
- Stay hands-on: personally design wireframes, mockups, interaction specs, and functional prototypes for high-impact and complex work
- Deeply understand the needs of our customers — their ER professionals, managers, and employees — and translate those needs into user-centric designs
- Partner with the UX Researcher to plan and act on concept and usability testing, turning customer feedback into design decisions
- Establish and uphold UX standards, review the team's work, and ensure consistency and quality across every product offering
- Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to develop new products and features, from early concept through delivery
- Present design work and rationale to stakeholders and leadership, using day-in-the-life stories to bring the experience to life
- Balance short-term fixes with the long-term design vision, making pragmatic trade-offs without losing sight of the roadmap
- Champion accessibility and inclusive design across the product, and own the relationship with our accessibility vendor
- Keep current with competitor products, design tooling, and industry trends, including emerging AI-assisted design capabilities
Skills
- * 8+ years of UX or product design experience, including 2+ years leading, mentoring, or managing designers, ideally in a B2B SaaS platform environment
- * Proven experience building, deploying, and maintaining a design system at scale, and driving its adoption across cross-functional teams
- * Expert-level proficiency with Figma, including hands-on experience with Figma's AI tools and a point of view on how AI can accelerate the design workflow
- * Demonstrable experience designing for complex workflows in B2B or B2C SaaS products, across web, native, and mobile-first approaches
- * Strong command of user-centric design strategy, UX principles, interaction design, and usability techniques
- * Experience partnering with UX research — or running research yourself — to inform and validate design decisions
- * A track record of setting design direction and standards in an agile, fast-moving environment
- * Excellent communication, storytelling, and data-presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
- * Strong attention to detail paired with the judgment to know when to prioritize speed
- * A collaborative, humble leadership style that lifts up the people around you
- * Comfortable working in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, dynamic environment
- * A creative problem-solver who brings a clear point of view and a bias toward shipping
- *This is a remote opportunity - must be US based*
Benefits
- The flexibility of a fully remote role, with a collaborative team culture that doesn't depend on being in one place
- Modern tooling and the latitude to bring AI-assisted design workflows into how the team works
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans
- FSA or HSA options
- 401K plan that matches your contributions
- Paid leave for various life events, such as sickness, disability, or parenthood
- #Allin Shares Program
- Company paid holidays
- Birthday day off
- Closed 4th of July week and December holiday week
- 8 hours of volunteer time
- Half day summer Fridays and half day first Fridays, based upon business needs
- Unlimited PTO policy
- Referral bonuses for qualified candidates
- Employee assistance program
- Remote work environment that fosters collaboration and creativity
- Onboarding and mentorship from managers and peers
- Manager training
- Leadership training
- Industry training
- Health and wellness benefits
- Life and disability insurance coverages
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