Principal User Experience Designer

Position Responsibilities

• System ‑ level UX architecture
• Define and evolve information architecture, navigation models, and application shells for complex, data ‑ dense enterprise products.
• Establish durable UX foundations that engineering can build on while supporting future change.
• Own, define and drive the UX strategy for a feature or products based on solid Design Thinking and rationale
• AI ‑ first experience design
• Design AI experiences that are embedded, contextual, and workflow driven, not just simple addon experiences like chat.
• Define and apply established guardrails (explainability, progressive disclosure, human-in-the-loop), leveraging company standards and user-centered design principals to concrete product designs.
• Vibe coded prototyping
• Experienced using modern AI coding tools to build working, high-fidelity prototypes. Translate ideas into executable UX and support engineers directly, rather than static mock-ups which require re-implementation.
• Design system leadership
• Able to apply and contribute enhancements to design systems. Working with owners to maintain the cross-product design system, setting standards for component and patterns, source of truth governance, and integration with modern build & AI tools.
• Ensure consistency between design intent and implemented UI.
• Research ‑ driven decision making
• Lead or deeply engage in user research, competitive analysis, and validation. Synthesize large, complex inputs into clear UX direction that product and engineering can act on.
• Product Team Collaboration
• Work as a peer partner in teams including Product Management, Engineering, and User Experience. Participate in AI ‑ assisted software development lifecycles where UX is part of generation, verification, and outcome measurement.
• Enablement and influence
• Enable other designers and teams through documentation, examples, training, and working artifacts. Confidently represent UX in leadership and executive contexts.

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of professional UX/product design experience, with at least 5 years in enterprise software contexts.
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise‑scale, complex systems (ERP, platforms, or similarly complex domains).
• Experience leading the design process, acting as the driver and owner for work planning and organization, strategic design approach via work decomposition and planning and stakeholder management
• Proven ability to operate across strategy, architecture, research, and execution.
• Hands‑on comfort with modern prototyping and AI‑assisted workflows.
• Strong systems thinking; able to reason about scale, consistency, and evolution.
• Trusted partner to senior product and engineering leaders.

Career Interests

• Software Development/Design

Compensation Info

The U.S. salary range for this position is $86,500.00-$152,500.00. This range is subject to change as Deltek takes a number of factors into consideration when determining individual base pay, such as location, job-related knowledge, skills and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including incentive compensation and equity.

Benefits and perks

• Healthcare benefits
• 401(k) plan and company match
• Paid vacation time and holidays
• Well-living programs
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement

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