Lead UX/UI Designer

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We’re looking for a Senior / Lead UX/UI Designer to bring human-centered design into the core of how we build products. This role is a mix of hand-on and strategic.

You’ll design end-to-end experiences, conduct user research, and help define and maintain UX standards across the organization. You’ll also manage and mentor a junior designer while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders.

This is a high-impact opportunity to establish UX as a core competency at Accurate.

What You’ll Do

• Own end-to-end design: Work with Product Managers, engineers, and stakholders 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.

What we are looking for

• 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.

Why join us

• 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.

The annual base salary for this position ranges from $81,700 - $122,650. Pay will vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and relevant education and training. This position may also be eligible for an annual performance-based bonus, commission, or other variable pay plan. The Company also offers a full range of benefits, including medical, dental, and 401k. Your recruiter can share more details about the specific compensation package during the hiring process.