UX Designer, Specialist

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of strategic design and usability choices for Astrea.

• Establish principles, patterns, and guidelines applicable to all squads.

• Lead the comprehensive product redesign process, encompassing vision, concept, information architecture, interaction patterns, and a phased delivery plan.

• Convert product strategy into design direction and articulate rationale and compromises to executives, GPMs, PMs, and Engineering.

• Serve as the owner of the design system, managing strategy, component architecture, documentation, governance, roadmap, and adoption metrics.

• Collaborate with Engineering to ensure the design system's seamless implementation in code, utilizing Figma as the definitive source and ensuring clear handoffs.

• Integrate accessibility and usability considerations into components and workflows.

• Coordinate cross-functional initiatives with squad designers by planning workstreams, allocating tasks, reviewing deliverables, and ensuring consistency.

• Engage hands-on with critical workflows, prototypes, and high-fidelity user interfaces.

• Conduct research, usability testing, and both qualitative and quantitative validation.

• Lead workshops, alignment sessions, ideation, and prioritization activities across squads.

• Facilitate critiques and design reviews.

• Mentor designers and assist GPMs with technical insights.

• Contribute to design recruitment processes, including evaluating case studies and conducting technical interviews.

• Act as a resource for incorporating AI into the design process and advocate for best practices.

• Define experience patterns for AI-driven features in Astrea, such as assistants and automation tools.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design or a related discipline.

• Extensive experience in Product Design/UX at a senior level or higher.

• Proven ability to technically manage design projects for established digital products.

• Experience in building or enhancing design systems, including tokens, components, documentation, governance, and adoption strategies.

• Advanced understanding of UX/UI principles, including information architecture, interaction design, visual hierarchy, usability heuristics, and accessibility standards.

• Experience in research and validation methods, including interviews, usability testing, and data analysis.

• Capacity to influence decisions without formal authority and present to stakeholders at various levels, including executives.

• Experience in mentoring designers and leading critiques or design reviews.

• Advanced proficiency in Figma, covering components, variables, libraries, and prototyping capabilities.

• Familiarity with AI tools in the design process, such as Lovable, Replit, and Figma AI or similar platforms.

• Close collaboration with Engineering and an understanding of how components are transformed into code.

• A portfolio that showcases decision-making rationale and impact.

• Preferred: experience with Claude Code or code-based prototyping.

• Preferred: experience in redesigning a live product with a large user base and delivering incremental improvements on a legacy system.

• Preferred: experience in designing AI-enhanced experiences.

• Preferred: experience in B2B SaaS or vertical products; familiarity with the legal market.

• Preferred: experience in facilitating Design Sprints and stakeholder workshops.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meal/Food Allowance: R$1,300 per month on a flexible benefits card, with no payroll deduction.

• Home Office Allowance: R$135 per month, with no payroll deduction.

• Health Insurance: Nationwide Bradesco plan.

• Dental Insurance: SulAmérica plan.

• Life Insurance.

• Extended parental leave, including for adoption, same-sex couples, and single-parent families.

• Childcare assistance for children up to 5 years old.

• Gympass/Wellhub.

• Conexa Saúde, offering 2 free psychological consultations and 2 free nutritional consultations monthly.

• Guapeco: nationwide pet health insurance with reimbursements of up to 100%.

• Partnership with a language school, providing discounts on English and Spanish courses.

• Profit-Sharing and Results-Based Bonus (PLR).

• Relax Week: business days off between Christmas and New Year’s Day.

• Workstation Allowance of R$2,400.

• Company-provided laptop.

• Birthday day off.

• Great Place to Work certification.

• A culture of feedback, professional development guilds, an Individual Development Plan (IDP) during onboarding, Aurum Talks, OKR transparency, commemorative events, performance reviews, and development programs.