Lead UX/UI Designer

Accurate Background is looking for a Senior / Lead UX/UI Designer to design end-to-end experiences, conduct user research, and help define UX standards across the organization while mentoring a junior designer.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design: Work with Product Managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate complex problems into clear, intuitive experiences across our client portal (enterprise customers) and candidate portal (consumer users).
• Champion user research: Conduct interviews, build prototypes, usability testing, and other research methods to ground designs in customer insights and data.
• Establish standards: Build and maintain a design system, create reusable patterns, and define best practices that scale across teams.
• Shape process: Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate UX into our product development lifecycle (move from reactive screen design to proactive, strategic design involvement.).
• Lead and mentor: Provide guidance to a junior UX/UI designer, helping grow their skills while modeling best practices.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in UX/UI design, with a track record of delivering enterprise products.
• Demonstrated experience building design systems and setting UX/UI standards from the ground up.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver on data-informed web and mobile experience that balance user needs and business goals.
• Experience operating independently in complex, distributed organizations while maintaining a bias for action.
• Ability to effectively communicate the “WHY” of design to cross-functional leaders.
• Proficiency with modern design and collaboration tools.
• Prior experience managing designers is strongly preferred.
• Experience with AI based design tools strongly preferred.

Benefits

• Impact at scale: Your work will touch both enterprise customers and millions of candidates going through the hiring process.
• Build from the ground up: You will have the opportunity to define how UX/UI operates with an established, global business.
• Growth & mentorship: You’ll lead and mentor a designer, with future opportunities to expand your scope as the UX function grows.
• Medical, dental, and 401k benefits.