Lead UX Designer

Datacor, Inc.

Lead UX Designer crafting intuitive product experiences for Datacor's engineering software solutions for process manufacturing industry. Collaborating with engineers to bring designs from concept to execution.

Posted 6/11/2026full-timeRemote • 🇺🇸 United StatesSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Conceptualize and design product solutions that balance visionary thinking, craftsmanship, efficiency, and business potential.
Meticulously craft new product features — from initial ideas and user experiences to polished, pixel-perfect designs.
Lead projects end to end, collaborating with engineers to bring concepts from vision to deployment.
Work hand-in-hand with product managers to understand customer and user needs, using this data and intuition to scope design work aligned with the product roadmap.
Serve as a mentor to junior designers, providing guidance and feedback in support of their growth.
Establish and steward local, product specific design systems, defining core components, patterns, and guidelines that create consistency, quality, and scalability as our products and teams grow.
Expand product design operations, ensuring processes are efficient, collaborative, and aligned with team and product objectives.
Understand customer needs, exploring and advocating for user experiences that effectively solve their problems

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of product design experience, with the ability to run projects independently from start to finish
Degree in engineering or a related technical field, or equivalent experienced working closely with engineering-driven projects
Experience designing and building great products using Figma
Experience with enterprise level business-to-business products with a product-led, SaaS environment
Ability to develop, scale, and socialize design systems within organizations, with a demonstrated ability to craft lean, implementation documentation
Ability to untangle ambiguous concepts, leveraging intuition and experience
Ability to balance design excellence with business impact, considering practicality and speed without getting caught up in unnecessary complexity or overly abstract solutions
Strong communication skills to share opinions and invite alternative perspectives, including listening to feedback and collaborating with stakeholders
Experience with large language modules and prompt-to-design tools such as Figma Make
An enthusiasm for AI-enabled workflows
An understanding of code and interest in engineering/technical systems

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Paid time off
Flexible work hours
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

product designdesign systemsuser experience designlean documentationlarge language modelsprompt-to-design toolsFigmaSaaSengineering principlesproject management

Soft Skills

communicationmentorshipcollaborationproblem-solvingvisionary thinkingcraftsmanshipefficiencybusiness acumenfeedbackintuitive thinking