Senior Associate, UX/UI & Web Development

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Associate with strong UX/UI instincts and hands-on front-end experience to help shape and maintain HarbourVest’s digital presence. The role will support the transition to a new web content management system and then focus on maintaining and improving the site.

Responsibilities

• Build and refine user experiences across the firm's digital touchpoints, including the public website, campaign landing pages, thought leadership content, digital reports, and email templates.
• Develop high-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes using Figma and Adobe CC.
• Collaborate with external design agencies to ensure designs align with HarbourVest’s brand and meet client expectations.
• Support the ongoing evolution of HarbourVest’s design system, ensuring new pages and components follow established patterns and preparing clear documentation and build specs for component-based development.
• Handle front-end updates using HTML, CSS/SASS, and JavaScript within a component-based CMS environment, ensuring the site is performant, responsive, and consistent across devices.
• Work closely with IT and external development partners to ensure designs are feasible and well-implemented.
• Collaborate with Marketing, Content, Marketing Operations, Events, and Compliance/Legal, clearly explaining design decisions and rationale to both technical and non-technical executive leaders.

Requirements

• Demonstrated experience designing for our highly professional audience.
• A balance of visual polish with restraint, translating sophisticated, data-heavy concepts into clear, credible digital experiences.
• Attention to detail, especially when working on high-visibility, client-facing content.
• Communicate design decisions clearly to a range of executive leaders.
• Stay organized when handling overlapping design, build, and QA workstreams.
• Bring a practical, productive approach to moving work forward.
• Look for ways to simplify handoffs, improve repeatability, and reduce friction throughout the development process.

Qualifications

• Consistent track record in UX/UI and digital design, ideally within financial or professional services.
• Bachelor’s degree in design, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• A portfolio that demonstrates UX thinking, polished visual design, web and CMS work, and design system experience.

Skills and Approach

• Balance thoughtful design with practical delivery in a highly regulated industry.
• Communicate design decisions clearly to a range of executive leaders.
• Stay organized when handling overlapping design, build, and QA workstreams.
• Bring a practical, productive approach to moving work forward.
• Look for ways to simplify handoffs, improve repeatability, and reduce friction throughout the development process.
• Good judgment and decision-making.
• User-centered approach.
• Planning and process orientation.
• Collaboration and relationship-building.

Pay

Base Salary Range: $110,000.00 - $ 115,000.00

This USD base salary range represents only one component of total compensation for this role and is provided in accordance with local requirements. This role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus, which is determined based on individual and overall firm performance. In addition to salary and bonus, total compensation may include eligibility for long-term reward programs and a comprehensive total rewards package that may include retirement, health, insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs.

Please note the posted ranges do not apply outside the U.S. and should not be converted to other currencies as a proxy for compensation in other countries.