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UX Designer

Hammerspace β€’ Redwood City, CA πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

$130,000 - $170,000 Full-time Senior

Design intuitive, accessible, and scalable user interfaces for complex, data-rich applications used by a diverse range of enterprise users, translating user needs and business requirements into effective design strategies.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the UX design of product features from concept to deliveryβ€”producing wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and detailed design specifications.
  • Translate technical and business requirements into intuitive user experiences that support complex workflows, data visualizations, and role-based interfaces.
  • Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to define user problems, propose design solutions, and iterate based on feedback.
  • Conduct user research, usability testing, and heuristic evaluations to validate design decisions and improve overall user workflows.
  • Design interfaces that comply with Section 508 and WCAG accessibility standards, ensuring usability for individuals with disabilities.
  • Champion user-centered design principles across the organization and ensure accessibility and usability remain central to our product strategy.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Cognitive Science, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of UX design experience, including at least 3 years working on enterprise or storage software platforms.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating UX work for complex applications, with a focus on usability, information architecture, and accessibility.
  • Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or Axure.
  • Familiarity with frontend development fundamentals (HTML, CSS, ARIA roles) to ensure design feasibility and accessibility.
  • Proven ability to plan and execute user research, usability testing, and stakeholder interviews.

Key Skills

  • Experience in the storage software domain.
  • Experience designing dashboards, administrative interfaces, reporting tools, or permission based UIs.
  • Hands-on experience designing for Section 508 and WCAG 2.1 standards, including the use of accessibility evaluation tools such as axe, WAVE, or Lighthouse.

Benefits

  • Broad range of health plans for medical, dental, vision, life and disability.
  • 401k plans and flexible time off.

About Hammerspace

Hammerspace obliterates data access delays for AI and high-performance computing. Its Data Platform delivers a high-throughput, low-latency parallel global file system unifying data from edge to core to multi-cloud, accessible via pNFS, NFSv3, SMB and S3 standards.

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