Senior UX Designer

About The Role 🌟🖌🔧

We are looking for a creative, strategic, and empathetic Senior UX Designer to be the driving force behind user experience at Cardata. As the foundation of the UX team, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the design culture, establishing scalable processes, and driving innovation across our platform. Beyond research and design, you will build a foundation for future growth by developing our design system and aligning closely with Product and Engineering teams.

If you are passionate about crafting intuitive user experiences, thrive in scale-up environments, and enjoy building systems from the ground up, we want to hear from you!

What You’ll Do 📊🛠️🕵️

• User Research & Workflow Mapping
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative user research, including interviews, surveys, shadowing, and usage analytics to understand workflows and pain points.
• Analyze findings to determine efficient, flexible, and consistent workflows that address user needs.
• Create design artifacts (user journeys, personas, storyboards, etc.) to communicate design concepts and strategies.
• Design Creation
• Translate research insights into polished, high-fidelity designs using Figma and similar tools.
• Continuously refine ideas and designs by incorporating user feedback through usability testing, prototypes, and other interactive solutions. 
• Inspire internal and external stakeholders by presenting futuristic innovative ideas.
• Design System & Style Guide Development
• Evaluate, choose, and implement an industry-leading design system framework (such as Material UI, Ant Design, Chakra UI, or Tailwind CSS).
• Maximize design and developer productivity by building a component library (in Storybook or similar tool).
• Populate both the design system and style guide with content, including typography, colour schemes, iconography, and component guidelines.
• Ensure designs adhere to accessibility standards (WCAG guidelines) and support scalability across future platform iterations.
• Asset Preparation & Delivery
• Partner with developers to ensure smooth handoff and implementation of design assets.
• Deliver all design assets, including annotated screens, style guides, workflows, and component libraries, ensuring the development team has everything needed for rapid implementation.
• Collaboration & Testing
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Product, Development, and Marketing to align design goals with business objectives.
• Help plan and execute beta testing to validate design effectiveness, iterating based on feedback to improve usability and satisfaction.

What You’ll Bring 👨‍🎓📝🌐

• 5+ years in a combined UX and UI design role, focusing on SaaS platforms, enterprise applications, and/or large-scale platform redesigns.
• Expertise in creating and/or maintaining scalable design systems and style guides for SaaS platforms.
• Strong portfolio showcasing impactful UX design projects and case studies.
• Research & Design: Expertise in user research methodologies, workflow mapping, wireframing, and prototyping.
• Design Tools: Strong proficiency in Figma. Knowledge of Storybook (or similar platform) for creating and managing high-fidelity designs.
• Technical Proficiency: Experience creating components using Material UI, Tailwind CSS or other responsive design frameworks.
• Collaboration: Strong communication and trustworthiness to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams.
• Presentation Skills: Strong storytelling and presentation abilities.
• Leadership: Experience mentoring or leading design teams/projects.
• Driven and results oriented: Comfortable with fast-paced, iterative development cycles and enjoys the collaborative energy of a growing start-up.

Bonus Points If You Have 🏆✨🎯

• Track record of multi-persona research and design in B2B or B2B2C environments.
• Proven experience with compliance-heavy or data-driven applications. 
• Familiarity with accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for enterprise platforms.
• Ability to travel domestically and internationally 2-4 times a year.

***Required*** Share a link to your portfolio or past projects so we can see how you bring ideas to life.