UI/UX Designer
Zigabyte
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • Alabama • 🇺🇸 United States
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About the role
- Lead the end-to-end modernization of a large-scale mainframe UI.
- Develop the design vision, principles, and roadmap for the modernization effort.
- Analyze, deconstruct, and reimagine 750 legacy screens, grouping workflows into coherent user journeys.
- Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and usability validations to inform design decisions.
- Create wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, and supporting documentation.
- Build or refine a scalable design system to support consistent and efficient delivery.
- Partner with engineers to ensure technical feasibility and alignment with modernization constraints.
- Define Agile-ready design stories, estimates, sequencing, and acceptance criteria.
- Participate in PI Planning, Sprint Planning, Refinements, and Reviews as the program’s design authority.
- Provide leadership, guidance, and feedback to the team throughout the modernization cycle.
- Identify risks early and recommend mitigation strategies to maintain schedule integrity.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in UI/UX design, including lead-level responsibility.
- Demonstrated success modernizing legacy or mainframe applications, ideally at scale (300+ screens).
- Strong understanding of design considerations for systems interacting with COBOL or other mainframe workflows.
- Experience building and governing enterprise-level design systems.
- Ability to break complex design work into Agile-friendly increments and partner effectively with engineering teams.
- Strong portfolio showing workflow redesign, information hierarchy, and transformation of outdated interfaces.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven success facilitating workshops, gathering requirements, and leading consensus-building discussions.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
UI/UX designwireframingprototypinghigh-fidelity designdesign system developmentAgile methodologiesstakeholder interviewsusability validationlegacy application modernizationinformation hierarchy
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationfacilitationproblem-solvingfeedback provisionrisk identificationconsensus-buildingguidancepresentation skills