Lead UI/UX Designer

As a Lead User Interface & User Experience (UI/UX) Designer at Corcentric, you will join a collaborative team within an ambitious, entrepreneurial global organization. You will drive the effort to unify and transform the UI/UX experiences for Corcentric's best-in-class software suites to help finance and procurement professionals optimize their business functions and outcomes. As a capable and motivated individual, you will lead efforts to make design the centerpiece in creating useful, usable, and desirable products, operating as a peer and partner with Product Management and Engineering.

We believe our business-to-business (B2B) software solutions should be designed and developed with the same care, craft and contemporary human-centered practices as consumer software. This hands-on leader will manage a team of UI/UX Designer, presenting a clear vision of customer personas and their business needs through strong peer collaboration, thoughtful planning and coordination across teams, taming complexity for our users, and leading the full range of design practice, from up-front research, insights, and strategy, through to ideation, prototyping, testing, and delivery of final designs.

This key position reports to the SVP, Product Management within our Product Management team. We're a dedicated, down-to-earth group in a growing organization offering plenty of opportunity. We look forward to adding you into the mix!

As a Lead UI/UX Designer, you'll be responsible for:

• Leading a team in the design and re-design of product experiences across our Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offerings
• Understanding customer needs and driving the evolution of the product by translating business requirements into software product functionality
• Actively monitoring and analyzing trends, leading user experience research of targeted users of our solutions, their behaviors, and requirements to improve their experience
• Engaging with customers and internal stakeholders to establish feedback loops and drive a customer-focused approach to evolving legacy designs into new design system
• Define UI/UX methodology and principles, present work and articulate strategy and design decisions to senior leadership
• Driving innovation, with your design savvy and deep understanding of user needs and behaviors
• Contributing to product vision, roadmap, requirements, and project plans with Product Managers and Engineers
• Communicating expectations within the design team for standards of quality by establishing a vision, providing creative direction, and critiques
• Defining and executing the UI/UX roadmap, balancing needs and priorities across multiple product streams
• Illustrating design options using storyboards, process flows, prototypes, and sitemaps along with thorough research and analyses as well as potential updates to the design system
• Decomposing functionality of existing products, and documenting specifications to create the next generation, unified functionality
• Leveraging product analytics tools to improve product experience and understand opportunities to improve product/feature adoption
• Acting as a cross-functional leader & motivator to remove organizational roadblocks and foster a fun, creative, outcome-driven team environment
• Effectively driving the hiring, professional development, and ongoing management of the design team

Requirements

You'll need to have:

• Senior-level experience as a UX/UI designer, artist, or creative resource for a technology company, getting into the weeds and being the UI/UX go-to expert
• Professional experience managing a team, with excellent leadership skills
• A strong digital portfolio that demonstrates a solid understanding of product strategy, user experience, visual design excellence, along with showcasing your experience with prototyping tools (please include with application)
• Substantial familiarity with enterprise application interfaces
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• A track record of taking ownership, providing cross-functional leadership and making smart business decisions
• Proficiency in a variety of design/prototyping tools such as Axure, Sketch, Figma, UXPin or similar
• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design, as well as strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Undergraduate degree in technical or design related field including human-computer interaction (HCI) or equivalent professional experience.

(We want to make sure you're set up to succeed, and we view these as the critical skills you'll need to achieve great things at Corcentric!)

It's great if you also have:

• A Master's in degree user experience (UX), human-computer interaction (HCI) or similar formal UX training or certification
• Psychology-relevant formal training or educational focus

(PsstDon't worry if you don't check all these boxeswe view this as helpful experience that can shorten ramp-up time!)

About Us

Corcentric is a global provider of business spend management and revenue management software and services for mid-market and Fortune 1000 businesses. Corcentric delivers software, advisory services, and payments focused on reducing costs, optimizing working capital, and unlocking revenue.

We achieve success by exemplifying our core values in the way we work, communicate, and collaborate:

• Do the Right Thing
• Embrace + Drive Change
• Be Empowered
• Be Relentlessly Focused on the Customer

Benefits

At Corcentric, we know that the hard work of our employees is what drives the success of our organization. We care about who you are and what you value, both inside and outside of work.

Within our organization, you will have the opportunity to work with smart, collaborative team members and approachable leaders. Our down-to-earth, solutions-oriented culture means you'll have the opportunity to get hands-on with interesting work projects and be able to draw a short line from your contributions to business impacts. We prioritize professional development and encourage cross-functional promotional opportunities to enable you to reach your career goals. We have been in business for over 25 years and are thrilled to be actively growing and scaling our teams accordingly - it's an exciting environment and a great time to join.

We also recognize the importance of work-life balance; you have personal priorities, passions, and goals you're pursuing, independent of your day job. In support of this, we are proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to our full-time team members, including paid time off, health insurance programs available from the first of the month following your start date (no extended waiting period to be eligible), paid maternity leave, company-paid disability & life insurance, and a 401k program.

Our roles require routine use of standard office equipment, such as computers, keyboards, printers, phones, and filing cabinets. You may need to type, reach, and lift office materials of a reasonable weight. Travel may also be required based on job responsibilities and business needs.

Corcentric does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.