Senior UX Designer

📄Description

• •Act as the authoritative voice on UX and UI for the software projects you support, across web, mobile, desktop, internet and intranet platforms.
• •Set direction for user-centered design activities — usability studies, personas, journey maps, concept testing — and coach teams on running them well.
• •Analyze research results and present findings and recommendations to stakeholders and project teams, connecting design decisions to user and business outcomes.
• •Mentor other designers, run critiques, and raise the bar on craft across the team.
• •Develop and evangelize UX best practices, and make sure they land in the products we build.
• •Keep the UX team ahead of product needs, finding new ways to support a constantly evolving set of requirements.
• •Use agentic coding tools (such as Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) to build functional, interactive UI prototypes that teams can click through, test with users, and hand to engineering.
• •Move from concept to wireframe to working prototype, gathering feedback from peers, developers and stakeholders along the way.
• •Read and reason about front-end code well enough to make realistic design decisions, scope trade-offs with engineers, and produce prototypes that reflect what will actually ship.
• •Contribute to and help maintain the corporate design system used across platforms, including its coded components.
• •Design within WWT’s Blue Steel design system by default — reuse existing components, patterns and tokens before creating anything new, and make sure what you ship is consistent with the rest of the portfolio.
• •Know when a new component is genuinely needed, and contribute it back to the system properly: documented, accessible, tokenized and ready for engineering to consume.
• •Work fluently with Figma libraries, components, variants, auto layout and variables so designs stay maintainable as they scale across web and mobile.
• •Partner with engineering to keep the design system and the coded component library in sync, so what is designed and what is built stay the same thing.
• •Advocate for system adoption across teams, and help other designers work within it rather than around it.
• •Figma — the primary design environment: high-fidelity UI, component libraries, variables, prototyping, and FigJam for workshops, journey maps and collaborative sense-making.
• •Adobe Creative Cloud — Illustrator, Photoshop for illustration, imagery and work that sits outside Figma.
• •Agentic coding tools (ie. Claude Code) — to move from Figma to a running prototype quickly.
• •Research and analytics tools — for usability testing, session review and behavioral data that informs design decisions.
• •Participate in design, analysis and testing of software in an environment that uses both custom-developed and third-party purchased tools.
• •Apply in-depth knowledge of WCAG and accessibility guidelines and standards from the first sketch, not as a final check.
• •Ensure final graphics and layouts are visually appealing and on brand, and stay invested in a project until completion.
• •Prepare rough drafts, present ideas early, and share work in progress.
• •Maintain proficiency with the design and research software used at WWT, including Figma and Adobe tools.
• •Produce design files that other people can pick up — well-structured, named, and built from shared components.
• •Be self-motivated: ask questions and find creative solutions to business problems.
• •Deliver work on time and meet deadlines.
• •Enjoy collaboration, with a preference for face-to-face communication, and be open to giving and receiving feedback.
• •Take complex ideas and communicate them clearly and concisely.
• •Distill ambiguous customer requests into concrete requirements.
• •Display leadership qualities — influence without authority, and represent design in rooms where decisions get made.
• •Exhibit a passion for design and learn continually, including staying current with AI-assisted design and development tooling.
• •Communicate with excellent presentation and public speaking skills, and advocate clearly for the user experience.
• •Minimum 5 years of professional UX and UI design experience, including senior or lead responsibility on shipped software.
• •Excellent design skills: typography, layout, color theory.
• •Demonstrated ability to use agentic coding tools to produce working UI prototypes.
• •Proven experience designing for both web and mobile.
• •Ability to conduct user research and testing, run heuristic evaluations, recognize usability patterns and promote best practices.
• •Ability to take an idea from concept to wireframe to final prototype, incorporating feedback throughout.
• •Expert-level Figma skills, including component libraries, variants, auto layout, variables and prototyping.
• •Proven experience designing within an established design system — and contributing components back to one.
• •Working knowledge of how design systems are built, governed and adopted.
• •Health and Wellbeing: Health (Medical & Prescription), Dental, and Vision Care, Onsite Health Centers (MO & IL), Employee Assistance Program, Wellness program
• •Financial Benefits: Competitive Pay, Profit Sharing, 401k Plan with Company Matching, Life and Disability Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Tuition Reimbursement
• •Paid Time Off: PTO & Holidays, Parental Leave, Medical Leave, Military Leave, Bereavement, Day of Caring
• •Additional Perks: Family Planning Benefits, Nursing Mothers Benefits, Voluntary Legal, Voluntary Supplemental Accident/Illness/Hospital, Voluntary ID Theft, Pet Insurance, Employee Discount Program