UI Designer, Equity

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Create wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, and final UI specifications for features and enhancements across all CEM product domains, including equity plan administration, ESPP, batch processing, broker integrations, admin reporting, financial reporting, and participant experiences.

• Convert PRDs, user stories, and functional requirements into thoughtful interface designs that consider the complexities of equity compensation workflows.

• Design for the entire range of interaction patterns needed in an equity management SaaS platform, including data entry, inline editing, bulk operations, search and filtering, drill-down navigation, scheduled job monitoring, and export/print formatting.

• Rapidly iterate on designs based on feedback from UX Researchers, Product Managers, Engineering, and customer input, prioritizing evidence-informed refinement over assumptions.

• Collaborate with the UX Manager to develop and maintain a cohesive design system and component library for the CEM platform, ensuring visual and interaction consistency across all modules and domains.

• Design and document reusable UI components, such as form controls, data tables, navigation patterns, status indicators, modal dialogs, notification systems, and reporting layouts, complete with clear usage guidelines, states, and accessibility annotations.

• Define and refine the visual language of the CEM platform, including typography, color systems, spacing, iconography, and elevation, balancing brand alignment with the functional requirements of a data-heavy financial application.

• Maintain the design system as a dynamic resource, updating components as new patterns emerge and ensuring consistency as the platform expands across existing workstreams.

• Collaborate with UX Researchers to integrate research findings, usability test results, and customer feedback directly into design decisions.

• Engage in research sessions, including usability tests, customer interviews, and contextual inquiries, to gain firsthand empathy for how equity administrators, finance teams, and participants interact with the platform.

• Leverage research insights to guide design direction, validate design hypotheses, and enhance interfaces through iterative testing cycles.

• Utilize domain knowledge of equity compensation workflows to anticipate user expectations and design for scenarios that generic usability principles may not address.

• Collaborate with Product Managers across all CEM domains to comprehend feature requirements, business logic, and user workflows, translating complex specifications into clear, actionable interface designs.

• Deliver thorough design specifications and annotated mockups that provide engineering with clear guidance on layout, spacing, interaction behavior, component usage, states, error handling, and responsive breakpoints.

• Work closely with front-end engineering to ensure design intent is maintained during implementation, participating in sprint reviews, QA walkthroughs, and visual regression checks.

• Contribute to the platform modernization initiative by providing interface designs and interaction patterns that lay the visual and experiential groundwork for the next-generation architecture.

• Consistently apply accessible design practices, such as color contrast, keyboard navigation, focus management, screen reader compatibility, and meaningful labeling, across all interface work.

• Conduct design QA reviews of implemented features to identify visual discrepancies, interaction inconsistencies, and accessibility gaps prior to release.

• Establish and uphold design quality standards that reflect the expectations of a regulated financial services platform, where precision, clarity, and trust are vital to the user experience.

• Present design work to product leadership, engineering teams, and cross-functional stakeholders, articulating design rationale, trade-offs, and alignment with user research and product strategy.

• Create and maintain design documentation that fosters cross-functional understanding, including annotated flows, interaction specifications, and pattern usage guides.

• Participate in customer advisory sessions and feedback reviews as necessary, showcasing design concepts and collecting direct input on interface direction.

• Assist in Product Marketing materials by providing visual assets, feature screenshots, and UI previews for release communications, sales enablement, and competitive positioning.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of UI design experience, with a strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end interface design work across complex, data-intensive enterprise applications.

• At least 2 years of experience designing for financial services, fintech, equity compensation, or similarly regulated, data-heavy B2B SaaS platforms.

• Proven experience in creating and contributing to design systems and component libraries in production environments.

• Demonstrated ability to design for complex interaction patterns, including dense data tables, multi-step workflows, form-heavy interfaces, role-based views, and reporting outputs, while maintaining usability and visual clarity.

• Experience collaborating closely with UX researchers, integrating research findings into design iterations, and participating in usability testing.

• Strong background working with engineering teams in Agile environments, including delivering detailed design specifications and conducting design QA.

• Expert-level proficiency in Figma, encompassing component architecture, auto-layout, design tokens, prototyping, and design system management.

• Solid understanding of interaction design principles for enterprise applications, including information hierarchy, progressive disclosure, error prevention, data visualization, and task flow optimization.

• Comprehensive understanding of equity compensation concepts, such as stock options, RSUs, RSAs, ESPP, performance awards, vesting schedules, and participant transaction workflows, enabling the design of interfaces that reflect real-world equity administration tasks without requiring constant domain translation.

• Working knowledge of front-end implementation considerations, such as HTML/CSS capabilities and constraints, responsive behavior, and component-based architecture, sufficient to design technically feasible interfaces and communicate effectively with engineering.

• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and inclusive design practices.

• Understanding of data-dense UI patterns that are common in financial and enterprise applications, including sortable/filterable tables, dashboard layouts, period-based navigation, and export/print formatting.

• A Bachelor's degree in Visual Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, or a related field is required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance

• 401(k) matching

• Flexible work hours

• Paid time off

• Remote work options