Senior UX​/UI Designer

This is an in-person position in Chapel Hill, NC or Santa Fe, NM.

Lead the design vision for our FLOW-3D product family, used by engineers and scientists worldwide to solve critical challenges in aerospace, manufacturing, civil engineering, and biotechnology. As our first Senior UX/UI Designer, you’ll define our design strategy, establish world-class standards, and shape how thousands of technical professionals interact with our industry-leading simulation platform.

• Define and champion the long-term UX/UI vision that positions FLOW-3D as the most intuitive and visually sophisticated CFD platform in the industry
• Transform complex simulation workflows into elegant, intuitive experiences that reduce learning curves and accelerate user productivity across our global customer base
• Build a user research practice that delivers continuous strategic insights, directly influencing product roadmap priorities and business decisions

• Establish comprehensive design standards and UI patterns that embody Flow Science’s brand identity and ensure consistency across the entire product family
• Elevate our visual design language to reflect our position as the industry leader, creating polished interfaces that inspire confidence and professionalism
• Design sophisticated visual systems that balance aesthetic refinement with the functional density required by power users performing complex technical work

• Shape product strategy as a key voice in leadership discussions, ensuring user needs and design excellence drive roadmap decisions
• Build and scale our design culture by establishing processes, methodologies, and standards that will support future team growth
• Mentor and educate the organization on user-centered design principles, elevating design maturity across product, engineering, and leadership teams
• Partner strategically with engineering leadership to balance design vision with technical constraints and implementation realities

You’ve established yourself as a strategic design leader through substantial achievements:

• Led design for multiple technical B2B products from concept through launch, delivering measurable improvements in user satisfaction, efficiency, and business outcomes
• Established design strategies and systems that influenced product direction and created lasting organizational value
• Built user research programs that generated actionable insights and drove strategic product decisions at the leadership level
• Designed sophisticated information architectures for complex technical systems, organizing dense parameter sets, advanced features, and multi-step workflows into elegant, navigable structures
• Created comprehensive design systems with detailed specifications that scaled across products and enabled consistent implementation
• Developed a portfolio that demonstrates strategic thinking, design excellence, and quantifiable impact on users and business metrics

• Master complex technical domains rapidly, engaging in substantive discussions with engineers about workflow requirements, system constraints, and domain-specific concepts
• Understand technical systems deeply, whether CFD, FEA, CAD, or other engineering tools, well enough to make informed design decisions about mesh generation, solver parameters, or post-processing workflows
• Communicate design vision and rationale persuasively to technical stakeholders, earning credibility through both design expertise and technical acumen

• Expert-level proficiency in industry-standard design tools (Figma, Adobe XD, or equivalent) with mastery of both rapid prototyping and production-ready design workflows
• Exceptional visual design skills with sophisticated understanding of typography, color systems, layout principles, and visual hierarchy in technical contexts
• Proven ability to establish design functions from scratch, working autonomously while building alignment across diverse stakeholders
• Strong advocacy and presentation skills with ability to influence product strategy and defend design decisions at executive levels
• Deep knowledge of accessibility standards,…