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Apricot

Senior UX/UI Lead

Apricot

Lead UX/UI Designer mentoring a remote team. Designing user-facing features for a technology company in a remote setting.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Lead, mentor, and guide a team of 2 UI/UX designers, reviewing their work to ensure consistency, quality, and alignment with product goals.
  • Own the UX/UI design process for user-facing features, working closely with Product Managers through implementation and iteration.
  • Drive design excellence as we evolve our interface to accommodate growing feature sets and optimize experiences across all screen sizes and devices.
  • Collaborate closely with the VP of Product and Product Managers to translate user needs and business requirements into elegant design solutions.
  • Develop and maintain design systems that support consistency, accessibility (including WCAG compliance), and scalability across the platform.
  • Design for complex, data-heavy workflows while balancing speed, accuracy, and user confidence considerations.
  • Create handoff-ready designs with clear documentation of states, edge cases, and interactive behaviors.
  • Champion user-centered design practices across the organization and advocate for design excellence.
  • Support product-led growth initiatives by designing self-serve, freemium experiences that drive user engagement and conversion.
  • Work cross-functionally with engineering, QA, and product teams to ensure timely and high-quality implementation of designs.
  • Design AI-assisted features with consideration for system transparency, confidence communication, and handling of bulk actions and large datasets.
  • Help scale our design capacity and accelerate our release velocity while maintaining our high user satisfaction and retention rates.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • At least 5 years of UX/UI design experience, with a minimum of 2 years in a leadership or senior design role.
  • Strong experience designing for SaaS products with self-serve, freemium models and product-led growth strategies.
  • Proven track record of leading design teams and mentoring designers to produce high-quality work.
  • Deep understanding of upgrade triggers, user onboarding flows, and conversion optimization in self-serve products.
  • Experience designing within existing design systems and evolving products with established user bases.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating work on complex, data-heavy products with multiple user segments.
  • Experience with responsive design and creating solutions that work seamlessly across various screen sizes and devices.
  • Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and designing inclusive experiences.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills with ability to work cross-functionally.
  • Strong cultural fit with demonstrated commitment to teamwork, collaboration, and building positive team dynamics.
  • Experience designing for AI-assisted or intelligent features is a plus.
  • Familiarity with systematic review processes or academic research workflows is a plus but not required.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • This is a remote position.

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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designUI designSaaS designresponsive designdesign systemsaccessibility (WCAG)user onboarding flowsconversion optimizationAI-assisted designdata-heavy product design
Soft Skills
leadershipmentoringcommunicationcollaborationteamworkdesign advocacyuser-centered designcross-functional collaborationproblem-solvingpositive team dynamics