Senior UX/UI Designer - Wordwall

About the Role

We’re seeking a strategic and hands-on Senior UX Designer to join our growing product team. This role includes but also goes beyond design execution; you will lead the end-to-end UX workflow. This includes reframing ambiguous requests into solvable design challenges, and using data to inform and validate design strategies (for example by running user studies). You are experienced with all phases of product & UX design and development, and adjust your decision-making accordingly.

Partnering deeply with PMs and engineers, you will lead design initiatives across functions, resolve cross-team UX conflicts, and anticipate delivery risks to maintain high quality under pressure. You are able to articulate and defend design decisions to any audience, directly linking your design direction to user outcomes and broader business goals.

You’ll proactively evolve our design systems and processes when existing ones break down, and raise the team's overall visual and interaction craft through thoughtful critique and leadership.

Key Responsibilities

1. Design Execution & Strategy

• Own the design process from concept through hand-off to engineering, ensuring usable, intuitive, consistent, and scalable solutions across all devices and user types
• Participate in design iterations, rapid prototyping, design QA, and cross-functional retrospectives
• Reframe ambiguous product requests into solvable, strategic design challenges
• Independently plan, execute, and report on user research, utilising both qualitative insights and quantitative data to inform and validate design
• Take ownership of specific design domains and projects (e.g. a core product area, design system, branding, or accessibility)

2. Design Process, Systems & Mentorship

• Proactively standardise and evolve our component-based design system in Figma
• Maintain documentation for design libraries, processes, and brand guidelines to ensure consistency and efficiency across the organisation
• Raise the team's overall UX craft by actively reviewing work and providing feedback

3. Cross-functional Leadership & Collaboration

• Collaborate closely with Product Managers and Engineering leads to shape product strategy, influence the overarching UX vision, and anticipate delivery risks
• Work directly with engineers to ensure accurate implementation of your designs
• Navigate and resolve cross-team UX tradeoffs and conflicts, adjusting your approach and decision-making based on the different phases of product and UX design.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience designing digital products or SaaS applications, with at least 2 years experience as a senior designer
• Strong interaction design skills and deep unders