Senior UX Designer

Salary: $156,249.6 - 162,489.6 per year Requirements:

• We are looking for 7+ years of experience in product design, UX design, service design, or a closely related field.
• We need 3+ years of experience focused on content-first authoring in headless CMS environments.
• We require proven experience designing enterprise applications, workflow-driven platforms, or content management solutions.
• We want a strong portfolio that demonstrates end-to-end product design across complex business challenges.
• We need expertise in user-centered design methods, interaction design, information architecture, and usability principles.
• We are seeking the ability to translate complex business requirements into intuitive, scalable user experiences.
• We value strong systems thinking and problem-solving skills.
• We need excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management abilities.
• We expect experience working in Agile product development environments.

• We will have you design intuitive content authoring, editing, review, approval, and publishing experiences within Sanity Studio.
• You will create user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs to support product development and stakeholder alignment.
• You will define authoring interaction patterns, UX standards, and design principles that support scalable and consistent content operations.
• You will balance business goals, user needs, governance requirements, and technical limitations to deliver effective solutions.
• You will partner with experience and design system teams to turn approved client-facing patterns and components into authoring controls, previews, guardrails, and workflows within Sanity Studio.
• You will collaborate with content strategists, marketers, UX designers, and platform teams to understand content creation, design system, and publishing needs.
• You will design authoring experiences that support content models, metadata, taxonomy, governance, localization, and content reuse.
• You will streamline workflows to reduce manual effort, improve usability, and enable efficient content operations at scale.
• You will establish scalable authoring patterns that support platform growth and changing business needs.
• You will conduct discovery activities to understand user needs, workflow issues, and operational pain points.
• You will use user feedback, analytics, research findings, and usability testing to guide design decisions.
• You will validate concepts and prototypes with stakeholders and end users.
• You will apply qualitative and quantitative inputs to continuously improve platform usability and adoption.
• You will partner closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Content Strategists, Engineers, Architects, and design peers across the product lifecycle.
• You will work with development teams to ensure authoring interface designs are feasible, scalable, and aligned with platform capabilities.
• You will facilitate workshops and working sessions to align on requirements, workflows, and user experience decisions.
• You will advocate for user-centered design and content-first thinking while balancing delivery timelines and business priorities.

• CMS
• Support
• UX UI Design

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We are based in Austin, Texas and hiring for a contract role with a compensation range of $75.12 to $78.12 per hour. The position sits on our MarTech Planning and Enablement Team, where we focus on designing intuitive, scalable authoring experiences within Sanity Studio and improving platform adoption and efficiency. As part of Cella, a randstad digital company, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that may include medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, life insurance, short-term disability, and a 401K plan, with benefits subject to eligibility. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants of all abilities, and the posting is open for thirty days.

last updated 38 week of 2026