UX Lead & Design Manager

Atrius® is a team of innovative and ambitious people creating cutting‑edge cloud applications that collect, analyze, and mobilize data to make buildings more efficient, sustainable, and easier to navigate. From the world’s largest airports and enterprise campuses to cutting‑edge venues, building owners and operators leverage Atrius technology to optimize energy resources, reach their sustainability goals, and deliver digital precision over physical spaces.

Atrius is part of Acuity Intelligent Spaces, a division of Acuity Inc. revolutionizing spaces to sense, think, and act.

Acuity Inc. (NYSE: AYI) is a market‑leading industrial technology company. We use technology to solve problems in spaces, light and more things to come. Through our two business segments, Acuity Brands Lighting (ABL) and Acuity Intelligent Spaces (AIS), we design, manufacture, and bring to market products and services that make a valuable difference in people’s lives.

We achieve growth through the development of innovative new products and services, including lighting, lighting controls, building management solutions, and an audio, video and control platform. We focus on customer outcomes and drive growth and productivity to increase market share and deliver superior returns. We look to aggressively deploy capital to grow the business and to enter attractive new verticals.

Acuity Inc. is based in Atlanta, Georgia, with operations across North America, Europe and Asia. The Company is powered by approximately 13,000 dedicated and talented associates. Visit us at  .

As the UX Lead and Design Manager, you will shape the next generation of indoor mapping and way finding experiences, guiding how travelers and visitors discover spaces, understand context, and navigate with ease. You’ll define high‑impact design strategy, lead hands‑on product design, and mentor a team working across complex, multi‑modal solutions that span maps, routing, POI search, accessibility, localization, and spatial data visualization.

You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Cartography teams to bring clarity, cohesion, and innovation to every touchpoint in the Atrius Wayfinder solutions.

As the UX Lead and Design Manager for Atrius Wayfinder, you will own the end‑to‑end UX for our indoor maps and navigation solutions. You’ll frame spatial experience challenges, lead design sprints, produce prototypes, validate solutions with users, and deliver high‑fidelity UI and interaction patterns for web, mobile SDKs, kiosk interfaces, and venue management tools. Your work will directly influence accessibility (WCAG 2.2), multi-language localization, Blue Dot indoor positioning UX, routing clarity, and map layer usability.

You will also lead designers working on cartography aligned interfaces, spatial data tools, and venue management workflows—ensuring cohesive, scalable, and brand‑flexible solutions.

• Lead the UX vision for indoor navigation and mapping experiences across devices (mobile SDK, web, kiosk, VMS interfaces, smart watches etc.).
• Drive concept development, prototyping, usability testing, and design execution for spatial interfaces including POI search, routing states, accessible paths, multilingual map labeling, and real‑time data overlays (e.g., flight status, wait times).
• Define and evolve a multi‑modal design system that supports maps, navigation UI, spatial visualization, and modular venue management components.
• Manage and mentor UX/UI designers on the Wayfinder team, providing regular feedback, career development guidance, and performance evaluations.
• Partner closely with Product Managers, Engineering, and the Cartography team to ensure UX quality and technical feasibility.
• Advocate for accessibility, inclusive design, and WCAG compliant flows, especially for airports and public venues.
• Lead UX discovery around spatial interaction patterns, Blue Dot indoor positioning experiences, AR way finding exploration, and multimodal routing.
• Contribute to broader AIS spatial experience initiatives and innovation programs focused on faster feature delivery, multi‑modal cohesion, and performance…