Lead UX Designer

About Insightsoftware

Insightsoftware is a global provider of reporting, analytics, and performance management solutions that enable finance and data teams to make timely, data‑driven decisions. Our solutions span FP&A, Controllership, and Data & Analytics.

Reporting to the UX Manager, Equity, the Lead UX Designer owns complex workflow design, contributes to the CEM design system, and drives design quality across the platform through close partnership with Product Management and Engineering. This role is a hands‑on design leadership position that translates research findings and product requirements into interaction models, validated prototypes, and production‑ready design specifications while establishing tools, standards, and practices that govern design delivery as the team scales.

• Discovery & Research
  • Lead heuristic evaluations of the current CEM platform, documenting usability, accessibility, workflow, and consistency issues across core functional domains and synthesizing findings into actionable design priorities.
  • Translate qualitative and quantitative research findings into workflow models, interaction patterns, and validated design directions.
  • Partner in stakeholder interviews, contextual inquiry sessions, and customer collaboration activities, ensuring research translates directly into design output.
• Design System Partnership
  • Establish, govern, and evolve the CEM design system, including branded component variants, interaction patterns, and accessibility standards consistently across all design output.
  • Collaborate with the UX Manager and Engineering to add new components, patterns, and documentation to the design system as new workflows surface.
  • Maintain design file hygiene and Figma library alignment to support clean handoff and reduce implementation ambiguity.
  • Participate in design system reviews, providing interaction design input on component behavior, states, and accessibility.
• Interaction Design & Prototyping
  • Own end‑to‑end UX design for high‑complexity CEM workflows from concept through validated prototype to production‑ready specification.
  • Produce interaction models, annotated wireframes, high‑fidelity prototypes, and design specifications sufficient for engineering implementation without loss of intent.
  • Lead iterative design reviews with Product, Engineering, and senior stakeholders, communicating design rationale clearly and incorporating feedback.
  • Participate in sprint reviews and QA walkthroughs for high‑impact features, evaluating alignment with design intent and flagging gaps.
• Lean UX & Dual‑Track Delivery
  • Operate within a Lean UX model paired closely with engineering, running design discovery ahead of delivery sprints to provide just‑in‑time designs that are validated before engineering commitment.
  • Define and maintain a clear MVP design scope with Product Management, establishing success metrics that enable a ship‑and‑measure approach for lower‑risk features.
  • Contribute to post‑delivery UX evaluation using application analytics to assess adoption, identify friction points, and inform the next iteration.
  • Balance design thoroughness with delivery velocity, knowing when to invest in deeper exploration and when to move quickly with a testable design hypothesis.
• AI‑Assisted Design & Development Enablement
  • Leverage AI prototyping tools to accelerate design exploration, concept validation, and the generation of design artifacts across the product development lifecycle.
  • Collaborate with Product and Engineering to evaluate AI‑generated UI and production‑ready code against design system standards and accessibility requirements, ensuring output meets quality bars before release.
• Design Operations & Practice Building
  • Partner with the UX Manager to establish design delivery processes, file organization standards, handoff conventions, and quality gates that support consistent, high‑quality output as the team scales.
  • Contribute to the CEM design repository, maintaining organized Figma libraries, component documentation, and reusable pattern documentation.

• 8+ years of UX design experience, with progressive…