Designer - Senior

About the role

Location: Austin, Texas. Job Type: Contract. We are seeking an experienced UX/Product Designer to join our MarTech Planning and Enablement Team and design intuitive, scalable authoring experiences within Sanity Studio. The role involves partnering with cross-functional teams to simplify complex content workflows, translate business needs into effective UX solutions, and enhance platform adoption and efficiency. The ideal candidate has strong experience in enterprise product design, CMS platforms, content authoring, and end-to-end content workflows.

Responsibilities

• Drive the design of intuitive content authoring, editing, review, approval, and publishing experiences within Sanity Studio.
• Develop user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that support product development and stakeholder alignment.
• Define authoring interaction patterns, UX standards, and design principles that enable scalable and consistent content operations.
• Balance business objectives, user needs, governance requirements, and technical constraints to deliver effective solutions.
• Partner with experience and design system teams to translate approved client-facing patterns and components into effective authoring controls, previews, guardrails, and workflows within Sanity Studio.
• Partner with content strategists, marketers, UX designers, and platform teams to understand content creation, design system, and publishing requirements.
• Design authoring experiences that support content models, metadata, taxonomy, governance, localization, and content reuse.
• Streamline workflows to reduce manual effort, improve usability, and enable efficient content operations at scale.
• Establish scalable authoring patterns that support platform growth and evolving business needs.
• Conduct discovery activities to understand user needs, workflow challenges, and operational pain points.
• Leverage user feedback, analytics, research findings, and usability testing to inform design decisions.
• Validate concepts and prototypes with stakeholders and end users.
• Use qualitative and quantitative inputs to continuously improve platform usability and adoption.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Content Strategists, Engineers, Architects, and Design peers throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure authoring interface designs are feasible, scalable, and aligned with platform capabilities.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align on requirements, workflows, and user experience decisions.
• Advocate for user-centered design and content first thinking while balancing delivery timelines and business priorities.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Product Design, UX Design,