Principal UX Design Lead

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Job Title: Principal UX Design Lead
Location: Remote
Compensation: $150,000–$180,000 base salary 
Employment Type: Full-Time, Direct Hire

About the Role

We’re partnering with a high-growth, global financial technology company that helps businesses manage payments, spend, and complex financial workflows across several lines of business, to find a Principal UX Design Lead for its enterprise product design team.

This is a newly created role sitting above a small, growing design team, and it’s intentionally built to be both a leader and a hands-on contributor. You’ll set UX vision and standards for a data-rich, multi-product enterprise platform, coach and grow two designers on staff, and stay directly involved in shipping design work yourself.

The organization is in the middle of significant transformation: rapid growth through acquisition, an evolving delivery methodology, and a strong, forward-leaning investment in AI across the product and engineering org. This role plays a central part in connecting the design process, from early concept through clickable prototype, directly into that AI-accelerated delivery pipeline.

What You’ll Do

• Own UX strategy and design standards across a complex, data-dense enterprise platform spanning multiple product lines.

• Coach and mentor a team of two designers (one senior, one advancing toward a senior level), with room for the team to grow further.

• Stay hands-on: personally design and prototype for high-priority initiatives alongside your team — this is not a pure management role.

• Champion a shift from static, screen-by-screen handoffs to fast, clickable prototyping — modeled on a design-sprint style approach — so engineering receives a validated, interactive prototype instead of a written spec.

• Own and evolve the company’s design system and component library, partnering closely with engineering (Figma to React) to keep it consistent and scalable.

• Partner with product and engineering leadership to front-load design and user validation before development starts, reducing rework and last-minute, “just-in-time” design requests.

• Help define how the design system and prototyping process feed directly into AI-assisted code generation as the organization matures its AI-driven delivery model.

• Present design direction, tradeoffs, and rationale directly to senior and executive stakeholders.

• Bring a point of view on in-app guidance and product analytics tooling (e.g., Pendo or similar) to inform design and onboarding decisions.

What We’re Looking For

Required Qualifications

• 7–10+ years of UX/product design experience, including senior-level work on complex, data-rich B2B or enterprise products.

• A strong portfolio you can walk through in detail — this is the primary way design craft will be evaluated.

• 2–3+ years of experience directly leading, coaching, or managing designers.

• Proven ability to work confidently with, and present design rationale to, executive stakeholders.

• Hands-on experience with Figma in a team environment where engineering builds in React.

• Experience building or significantly maturing a design system and component library.

• Demonstrated experience running fast, clickable prototyping (rather than static comps) to align product, design, and engineering before development starts.

• Comfort operating in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment — priorities, org structure, and process here shift often.

• Strong interest in how AI is changing design and product delivery, and how design work can feed directly into AI-assisted development.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Pendo, or a comparable product analytics/in-app guidance tool (e.g., WalkMe, Mixpanel).

• Background in fintech, payments, or another complex, highly regulated B2B software environment.

• Experience designing data-heavy, grid-based enterprise interfaces.

• Experience working on a fully remote, distributed product and design team.

Team & Culture

This is a fast-paced, high-change environment — the team is actively working to increase its shipping cadence and is comfortable with ongoing shifts in priorities, structure, and process. Culturally, the team is professional but informal: casual day-to-day interaction, with real structure and accountability.

Why This Role

• Join a large, global company with multiple lines of business — strong performance here can open doors to growth well beyond this team.

• Set the UX direction for a major enterprise platform used to manage complex, high-volume financial workflows.

• Get in early on a design org that’s actively being built out and invested in — this role has real influence over its future shape and standards.

• Work at a company that is genuinely AI-forward, with design positioned as a key part of how AI accelerates delivery.

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Gravity IT Resources is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.