Lead UX Designer

About Insightsoftware Insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions that enable finance and data teams to make timely, data‑driven decisions. Our solutions span FP&A, Controllership, and Data & Analytics. Lead UX Designer – Certent Equity Management (CEM) Reporting to the UX Manager, Equity, the Lead UX Designer owns complex workflow design, contributes to the CEM design system, and drives design quality across the platform through close partnership with Product Management and Engineering. This role is a hands‑on design leadership position that translates research findings and product requirements into interaction models, validated prototypes, and production‑ready design specifications while establishing tools, standards, and practices that govern design delivery as the team scales. Key Responsibilities Discovery & Research Lead heuristic evaluations of the current CEM platform, documenting usability, accessibility, workflow, and consistency issues across core functional domains and synthesizing findings into actionable design priorities. Translate qualitative and quantitative research findings into workflow models, interaction patterns, and validated design directions. Partner in stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiry sessions, and customer collaboration activities, ensuring research translates directly into design output. Design System Partnership Establish, govern, and evolve the CEM design system, including branded component variants, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards consistently across all design output. Collaborate with the UX Manager and Engineering to add new components, patterns, and documentation to the design system as new workflows surface. Maintain design file hygiene and Figma library alignment to support clean handoff and reduce implementation ambiguity. Participate in design system reviews, providing interaction design input on component behavior, states, and accessibility. Interaction Design & Prototyping Own end‑to‑end UX design for high‑complexity CEM workflows from concept through validated prototype to production‑ready specification. Produce interaction models, annotated wireframes, high‑fidelity prototypes, and design specifications sufficient for engineering implementation without loss of intent. Lead iterative design reviews with Product, Engineering, and senior stakeholders, communicating design rationale clearly and incorporating feedback. Participate in sprint reviews and QA walkthroughs for high‑impact features, evaluating alignment with design intent and flagging gaps. Lean UX & Dual‑Track Delivery Operate within a Lean UX model paired closely with engineering, running design discovery ahead of delivery sprints to provide just‑in‑time designs that are validated before engineering commitment. Define and maintain a clear MVP design scope with Product Management, establishing success metrics that enable a ship‑and‑measure approach for lower‑risk features. Contribute to post‑delivery UX evaluation using application analytics to assess adoption, identify friction points, and inform the next iteration. Balance design thoroughness with delivery velocity, knowing when to invest in deeper exploration and when to move quickly with a testable design hypothesis. AI‑Assisted Design & Development Enablement Leverage AI prototyping tools to accelerate design exploration, concept validation, and the generation of design artifacts across the product development lifecycle. Collaborate with Product and Engineering to evaluate AI‑generated UI and production‑ready code against design system standards and accessibility requirements, ensuring output meets quality bars before release. Design Operations & Practice Building Partner with the UX Manager to establish design delivery processes, file organization standards, handoff conventions, and quality gates that support consistent, high‑quality output as the team scales. Contribute to the CEM design repository, maintaining organized Figma libraries, component documentation, and reusable pattern documentation. Required Qualifications 8+ years of UX design experience, with progressive responsibility in complex workflow design across enterprise SaaS applications. Demonstrated experience owning or major‑contributing to a design system in a production SaaS environment. Proven ability to produce high‑fidelity interaction designs and prototypes for dense, data‑intensive enterprise applications, with a portfolio showing mastery of information hierarchy, workflow efficiency, and accessibility. Experience in a Lean UX or dual‑track agile delivery model, validating with users iteratively, and delivering just‑in‑time specifications. Strong cross‑functional collaboration skills with Product Management and Engineering, including discovery contribution, requirement shaping, and design rationale communication. Expert‑level proficiency in Figma (component architecture, auto‑layout, variables, library governance) for multi‑designer environments. Working familiarity with WCAG2.1AA accessibility standards and the practical application of accessible design patterns. Comfort with developer handoff tools and practices to collaborate on front‑end implementation with reduced ambiguity. Experience with component libraries, designing within constraints, and collaborating on implementation trade‑offs. Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human‑Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, Information Science, or related field (or equivalent professional experience). Preferred Qualifications Designing for financial services, enterprise resource planning (ERP), or similarly complex B2B SaaS platforms with high‑stakes data and regulatory context. Building a design system from scratch or near‑scratch in a greenfield initiative, including defining contribution models and governance frameworks. Using AI‑assisted tools for prototyping, research synthesis, and design exploration (e.g., Cursor, Lovable) or modern IDEs. Leading UX discovery for platform modernization or migration programs, directly informing next‑generation product architecture. Familiarity with product analytics or behavioral instrumentation tools used for post‑release UX evaluation and iteration. Experience in a high‑growth, fast‑paced SaaS company where design quality and delivery velocity must be balanced simultaneously. Compensation Salary range (United States): $139,000.00 – $174,000.00 USD per annum. Bonus and commission structures apply as detailed for non‑sales and sales roles respectively. Compensation will be determined based on skills, experience, and qualifications. Equality & Diversity Statement All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. At insightsoftware, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal‑opportunity workplace. 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