User Experience Designer III

About the role

The UX Design Lead Senior is responsible for leading hands-on design execution and strategic design direction across complex platform initiatives. This role combines user-centered design, research, and cross-functional leadership to help upgrade and improve enterprise applications, with a strong focus on dashboard efficiency, usability, and platform consistency.

Responsibilities

• UX Strategy & Design Leadership: Lead the creation of concepts, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, user interface designs, and detailed specifications to support project goals and timelines
• Design Standards & Visual Guidance: Independently create, update, and apply user interface and visual design guidelines and standards while ensuring consistency with enterprise design principles
• User Research & Experience Evaluation: Provide UX expertise throughout product definition and evaluation by leveraging user research, testing, interviews, market insights, and other inputs to improve usability and effectiveness
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with product, engineering, and leadership teams to shape design strategies, challenge assumptions, align on priorities, and support platform branding and user adoption
• Team Process & Mentorship: Help organize design team processes, mentor junior designers, review usability activities and deliverables, and advocate for user experience best practices across the organization

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a design professional with deep knowledge of UX and at least one area of specialization
• Strong experience with Figma
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and explain design rationale clearly
• Experience leading complex user experience activities, including user research, usability testing, interaction design, and visual design
• Bachelor’s degree in psychology, user experience, design, human-computer interaction, or a related discipline, or equivalent work experience
• Portfolio demonstrating recent, complex design work across enterprise, B2B, internal, or consumer-facing systems

Preferred Experience

• Strong user research background with the ability to translate findings into actionable design improvements
• Experience mentoring junior designers and helping shape team practices
• Advanced degree

Benefits

Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.