Senior UX Designer
Opus1.io
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Define and drive the end-to-end information architecture and user journey mapping for our products.
- Standardize and streamline our existing design systems, consolidating legacy approaches into a cohesive, scalable framework.
- Interview users, lead usability testing, and advocate for iterative design improvements based on user and stakeholder feedback. Establish and lead user research and usability interview practices.
- Translate user research findings into actionable design solutions, creating wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs primarily using Figma.
- Lead usability testing and advocate for iterative design improvements based on user and stakeholder feedback.
- Identify high value areas of the application that are not intuitive and, in tandem with PM prioritization and Engineering feasibility, recommend frictionless workflows to improve adoption.
- Manage and mentor contractors (and, in the future, additional ICs), ensuring quality and consistency across all user touchpoints.
- Collaborate closely with Product Management, Engineering, Customer Success, and Marketing to ensure seamless handoffs, prioritized user needs, and stakeholder alignment.
- Design for both non-technical users and sophisticated administrators in the performing arts space, developing experiences for web and mobile applications.
Requirements
- 7+ years of UX design experience with at least 3 years successfully leading design initiatives or projects as a senior or lead IC.
- Demonstrated expertise in information architecture, user journey mapping, and design system standardization for SaaS or B2B2C products.
- Proven ability to create and implement user research and usability testing programs from the ground up.
- Mastery of Figma and familiarity with other design and prototyping tools.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to effectively collaborate across disciplines and levels of seniority.
- Experience mentoring or managing other designers or contractors, with a willingness to take on more formal leadership as the function grows.
- Passion for the performing arts or experience in education/creative industries is a plus.
- Must be based in the US and comfortable working fully remote
Benefits
- Impact and ownership: You’ll play a defining role in how thousands of owners, managers, educators, students, and parents experience Opus1
- Rapid growth: We’re scaling fast, which means constant opportunities to take on new challenges and shape the future of the product
- Culture of trust: Work with a transparent, thoughtful leadership team that values autonomy and alignment over bureaucracy
- Creative mission: Help empower the next generation of musicians, singers, and dancers with technology that supports their passion.
- Fully remote: Work from anywhere in the U.S., with a distributed team that values flexibility and outcomes
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
UX designinformation architectureuser journey mappingdesign system standardizationuser researchusability testingwireframingprototypinghigh-fidelity designSaaS
Soft skills
communicationcollaborationmentoringleadershipadvocacystakeholder alignmentiterative designuser advocacyproblem-solvingteam management