Sr Digital Product Designer

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Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior UX/UI Designer to design intuitive, accessible, and user-centered experiences for a complex enterprise application. This role will support a single strategic project and work closely with product owners, software engineers, business analysts, and research stakeholders throughout the full product development lifecycle.
The ideal candidate brings strong end-to-end UX/UI experience, from user research and workflow definition through prototyping, usability testing, and high-fidelity design. This individual will help establish consistent design patterns while balancing user needs, accessibility, business requirements, and technical feasibility.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with product owners, engineers, business analysts, and research stakeholders to understand user needs and translate requirements into effective digital experiences.
• Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, and usability testing to identify pain points and validate design decisions.
• Develop user journeys, workflows, information architecture, wireframes, and interactive prototypes.
• Create high-fidelity UI designs and detailed design specifications for engineering implementation.
• Use Figma and established design systems to create scalable, consistent, and reusable design patterns and components.
• Incorporate user feedback, analytics, and usability findings into iterative design improvements.
• Ensure designs meet accessibility standards, including WCAG guidelines and user-centered design best practices.
• Present design concepts and rationale to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate within an Agile product development environment and maintain close alignment with engineering throughout implementation.
• Balance usability, accessibility, business objectives, and technical constraints when making design recommendations.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional UX/UI design experience supporting complex web applications, enterprise software, or digital products.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating the full UX lifecycle, including user research, journey mapping, wire framing, prototyping, interaction design, and high-fidelity UI design.
• Advanced experience with Figma or comparable modern design and prototyping tools.
• Hands-on experience conducting user interviews, usability testing, and iterative design validation.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and WCAG accessibility standards.
• Experience working within Agile, cross-functional product teams alongside product managers, engineers, analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to clearly explain design rationale to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing AI-powered, conversational, or agentic user experiences, including chat interfaces and human-AI interactions.
• Experience designing data-intensive applications, analytics platforms, research platforms, or scientific software.
• Experience with in healthcare, life sciences, biomedical research, or other regulated industries.
• Strong understanding of design systems and experience creating reusable UI patterns and components.
• Experience leveraging analytics and user behavior data to guide design decisions.
• Familiarity with generative AI concepts and how users interact with AI assistants.

Nice to Have

• Experience with service design, process design, or workflow optimization.
• Knowledge of biomedical or clinical research workflows.
• Experience collaborating across distributed teams within large enterprise organizations.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to effectively collaborate with front-end development teams; hands-on coding is not required.

Please apply through this online posting or by visiting our Job Board at Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $41 - $78 per hour based on qualifications and experience.