Senior Product Designer, UI - Virtual

Our Story

At Alight, we believe a company’s success starts with its people. Alight embraces values that come directly from our people – purposeful, human, united and growth-minded – reflecting our inclusive culture and promise that our clients expect. We are passionate about connecting purpose with impact. Alight empowers clients to build a healthier and more financially secure workforce by unifying the benefits ecosystem across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management.

With a comprehensive total rewards package, Alight offers programs and plans that support your mind, body, wallet, and life. Benefits include health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One. Additionally, Alight colleagues enjoy wellbeing programs, retirement plans with contribution matching, generous time off, parental leave, continuing education, and career growth opportunities – all within a thriving global organization.

So that you can be your best at work and home, we consider flexible working arrangements wherever possible. Alight has been a leader in the flexible workspace and “Top 100 Company for Remote Jobs” 6 years in a row.

• Lead the end-to-end design process for strategic product initiatives within an AI-enabled Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC).
• Translate user needs, business goals, and product requirements into scalable experience frameworks, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and production-ready designs.

• Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Delivery, and Enablement teams to guide AI-assisted product design workflows.
• Provide clear design direction and human oversight that helps shape product strategy, ensuring every experience is aligned with product goals.
• Iterate on design concepts and AI-generated outputs to ensure experiences are intuitive, accessible, scalable and consistent across products and workflows.

• Own and evolve the design system, ensuring it serves as the foundation for both human and AI-generated experiences.
• Ensure UI components and interaction patterns are consistent, reusable and easy for engineering teams to implement across products and workflows.
• Champion accessibility by adhering to WCAG 2.1 AA standards and supporting semantic structure, clear interaction patterns, accessible keyboard and focus behavior, readable content hierarchy, sufficient contrast, and inclusive usability throughout the user experience.

• Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Research, and Content teams by proactively identifying design opportunities, clarifying ambiguous requirements, and surfacing risks early.
• Partner with Product Managers to shape product strategy, collaborate with Engineering to ensure design fidelity and technical feasibility, and work closely with Research to identify gaps, validate solutions, and translate insights into product decisions.

• Leverage AI to accelerate ideation, exploration and delivery while providing human oversight necessary to ensure thoughtful, high-quality user experiences.
• Review AI-developed experiences to ensure alignment with user needs, UX best practices, accessibility and design system standards.
• Establish quality controls that ensure AI enhances design outcomes without compromising trust and usability.

• Lead design critiques, establish quality standards, advocate for user-centered decision making.
• Coach team members on human and AI-assisted design methodologies.
• Foster a culture where human creativity, design expertise, and responsible AI work together to deliver exceptional user experiences at scale

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