UI/UX Designer

Description

Movement changes lives — and for nearly 50 years, Balanced Body has led the world in Pilates equipment and education, pairing mindful movement with world-class engineering. From our solar-powered headquarters in Sacramento, we manufacture premium equipment that helps people feel better and move more freely.

What You'll Do

• Design Execution — Craft polished, high-fidelity mockups and interactive prototypes in Figma with clean user flows, strong visual hierarchy, and refined aesthetics.
  • Ecommerce Experience Design — Design and optimize PDPs, collection pages, navigation, merchandising, and conversion-focused landing pages, meeting WCAG 2.1/2.2 AA accessibility and responsive design standards.
    • Analytics & Iteration — Dig into analytics, heatmaps, and session recordings to spot friction points, form hypotheses, and drive iterative UX improvements.
      • UX Writing & Microcopy — Own the words that guide the journey: CTAs, error messages, modals, onboarding, and tooltips.
    • Design Implementation — Manage the look and feel of our web properties, customizing responsive layouts in WordPress and Shopify to match approved Figma prototypes and design systems.
  • Continuous UX Research — Run ongoing user research, usability testing, and heuristic evaluations to keep our platforms grounded in UX best practice.
• Cross-Functional Balancing — Act as creative consultant across marketing, development, and SEO — making agile adjustments without compromising design integrity.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years in a dedicated UI/UX or Product Design role, comfortable owning timelines and major deliverables independently.
• Education: Bachelor's in a design field (Interaction Design, Visual Communication, Graphic Design, HCI).
• Portfolio: End-to-end product thinking — UX workflows, interaction design, responsive structures, and refined final execution. A trained eye for type, color, and hierarchy is a must.
• Systems Thinking: Deep understanding of component-based design systems, mobile-first design, and adapting high-fidelity work across breakpoints.
• Tools: Expert in Figma (auto-layout, variants, design tokens); strong in Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator).
• CMS Fluency: Experience managing the presentation layer in WordPress (Gutenberg/Elementor) and Shopify (theme config, app integrations).
• Front-End Literacy: Foundational HTML5, CSS3/SCSS, and responsive layout knowledge — enough to collaborate fluently with developers.
• Nice-to-Haves: Experience designing localized, multi-language, culturally-tailored interfaces for global audiences; Awareness of how visual and layout choices affect SEO, page speed, and Core Web Vitals; Experience using AI tools (Claude Code, Cursor, Figma Make) to speed up design workflows and component drafting.

Benefits

• Competitive Compensation And Excellent Benefits Including:
  • Medical, Dental & Vision
  • 401(k) plan & Match!
  • Life, AD&D and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Paid time off and holidays
• Balanced Body is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to workforce diversity.
• NO AGENCY CALLS!

Salary Description

• 80,000-95,000