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Ascensus

UX Strategist

Ascensus

UX Strategist leading design strategy for web, mobile, and AI at Ascensus. Collaborating across various teams to drive user-centered design and innovative solutions.

Posted 6/26/2026full-timeRemote • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorLeadWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Shape the long-term user experience vision for web, mobile, and AI experiences that help millions of people achieve their financial goals
  • Use design thinking techniques and foster strong collaboration across business, product, design, analytics, and technology to translate business strategy, client insights, and market trends into actionable UX direction for product teams
  • Solve complex, large-scale problems and create experiences our clients love and that drive results for the business
  • Lead the UX discipline and drive culture and process improvements
  • Use creative and technical problem-solving skills to guide UX strategy
  • Drive UX strategy, principles, and north-star experiences for the most complex, program-level initiatives
  • Present experience vision, strategy, and recommendations to leadership and senior stakeholders to guide execution and decision making
  • Partner with leadership across Product, IT, and Analytics to deeply understand core business and user goals to identify new opportunities
  • Provide the vision and ensure the necessary alignment to translate those opportunities into concrete, outcome-focused solutions
  • Partner with UX research for discovery work, research synthesis, journey mapping, service design, and opportunity framing
  • Guide teams in prioritizing user needs, accessibility, and long-term experience value
  • Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to inform strategy
  • Lead experience and design reviews, providing strategic direction, actionable feedback, and quality oversight for designers to ensure alignment to experience vision and standards
  • Build strong, collaborative relationships across design, business, development, and analytics teams
  • Manage expectations within the team and with clients

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience in a creative or technical field
  • Graduate degree preferred
  • Minimum 10 - 15 years of experience or equivalent combination of experience and education
  • Portfolio demonstrating extensive experience solving the most complex UX problems and designing thoughtful, innovative web and mobile experiences for large-scale clients
  • Exceptional collaboration skills
  • High degree of creativity, empathy, and passion
  • Stellar communication skills (storytelling, visualization, use of qualitative and quantitative data) to enlist support for initiatives and ignite enthusiasm to execute
  • Able to drive clarity on the largest and most difficult projects
  • Expert in Design Thinking, Agile, and Lean methodologies
  • Highly proficient in the use of design and prototyping software (Figma)
  • Knowledgeable about AI enablement for UX
  • Deep knowledge about web, mobile, and AI UX patterns, best practices, and emerging technologies
  • Understanding of HTML/CSS
  • Excellent organizational skills
  • Able to switch between tasks across projects
  • Able to give and receive feedback and interpret critique to enhance project outcomes

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid time off

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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designDesign ThinkingAgile methodologyLean methodologyHTMLCSSprototypinguser experience strategyjourney mappingservice design
Soft Skills
collaborationcreativityempathycommunicationstorytellingvisualizationorganizational skillsfeedback interpretationproblem-solvingtask switching