Senior UX Designer

We’re looking for a Senior UX Designer with a passion for creating accessible, intuitive, and impactful digital experiences. In this role, you’ll lead the design of user-centered solutions for our SaaS platform, collaborating cross-functionally to ensure our products are not only beautiful and usable—but inclusive for all.

Responsibilities

Discovery

• Participate in user research including internal and external interviews, discussions with customer advisory boards, and other direct research activities to inform new and derivative interaction concepts.
• Offer interaction concepts to stakeholders and end-users for feedback, selection, and refinement.
• Evaluate existing workflows to help determine where improvements are needed, using research tools such as summative testing, expert evaluation, shadowing, and the like.

Design

• Design features, patterns, interfaces, and workflows using a user-centered approach.
• Find design solutions that are easy to use, bring clarity to complex workflows, reduce training time for end-users, and are considerate of user priorities and pain points. 
• Work with Product and Engineering teams throughout the development cycle to define, document, and communicate software form and behavior. 
• Deliver design assets including interactive prototypes and development-ready UX and UI specifications.
• Work with Engineering teams to improve interactions and design elements during development, and to release consistent and easy to use features.
• Help negotiate design and implementation details to achieve good experiences in a timely and straightforward manner, keeping an eye on scope.

User Testing

• Conduct usability testing as you design. Plan and run testing sessions, evaluate and document results, and iterate based on your findings.

Standards and Compliance

• Assist in writing and maintaining UX documentation including pattern libraries and style guides.
• Make use of and extend existing patterns to foster rapid development while improving overall experience quality.
• Work with Product, Engineering, QA, and other teams to deliver software that’s accessible to everyone, in terms of practical accessibility as well as WCAG compliance.

Requirements 

• 6+ years of UX design experience for enterprise software or web applications.
• Proficiency with industry-standard design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD).
• Strong portfolio showcasing UX strategy, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and accessibility-forward designs.
• A demonstrated ability to articulate the rationale for design decisions.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills.
• Great attention to detail, conceptual thinking, and adaptability.
• Able to work well independently and with teams.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.
• Familiarity with accessibility testing tools like Axe, Wave, or Lighthouse.
• Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Experience delivering designs that scale and segment elegantly—designs which can be released incrementally, repeated across features, and resized based on product needs.
• Experience with responsive design and designing for mobile.
• Experience in academic administration, research administration, or on a research team.

Benefits

• Competitive Medical Benefits (PPO + HSA available)
• Vision, Dental, Short-Term Disability fully covered by Cayuse
• Unlimited PTO + Holidays + Flexible Work Schedule
• Remote Work Stipend
• Equal Paid Parental Leave
• 401k with Employer Matching
• Quarterly Wellness Reimbursement
• Remote Work Environment, supporting the Ultimate Employee Experience 

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