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AHEAD · 1 month ago

Senior UI/UX Designer

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$150K/yr - $180K/yr

AHEAD is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer with strong systems thinking skills to establish and maintain a scalable design system. The role involves collaborating across disciplines and utilizing a technical mindset to solve user problems while creating intuitive user experiences and high-quality designs.

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Responsibilities

Build, maintain, and evolve a design system that supports consistency, scalability, and efficient cross team collaboration

Translate complex workflows and requirements into intuitive user experiences

Partner with product, engineering, and data teams to deliver end to end experiences

Create user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high fidelity designs that align with product goals

Skilled at driving alignment with leadership by iterating live on calls, capturing feedback in real time, and translating input into clear, convergent design decisions

Conduct user research, analyze findings, and incorporate insights into the design process

Work closely with engineers to ensure high quality implementation and provide necessary specifications

Explore new design and AI tools that can improve workflow and design outcomes

Ability to pivot in a dynamic environment and operate effectively in a fast paced, forward thinking team

Ability to set standards and establish best practices, not only follow existing ones

Be a continuous learner excited about advancing their craft

Qualification

Design system creationInteraction designVisual designTechnical fluencyFigma proficiencyAI tools experimentationAccessibility standards knowledgeFront end programming knowledgeCollaboration skillsCommunication skillsProblem solving skills

Required

Strong systems thinking skills and experience creating or contributing to a design system

Solid understanding of interaction design, information architecture, and visual design

Technical fluency and ability to work effectively with engineers

Ability to simplify complexity and communicate design decisions clearly

Interest in experimenting with AI powered tools to enhance design and research processes

Excellent collaboration, communication, and problem solving skills

Proficient with Figma, including advanced features such as design tokens, variables, and auto layout, with the ability to create structured components and document them for cross team use