Description & Requirements
Maximus is currently seeking a Senior Digital UX Designer to lead user experience and interface design across key applications. In this role, you’ll shape intuitive workflows, modernize legacy tools, and translate UX concepts into implementation‑ready designs for React-based user interfaces.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
- Create wireframes, high fidelity comps, clickable prototypes, and style guides to be handed off to developers.
- Work closely with the development team and help guide software engineers.
- Design prototypes while closely adhering to style guides.
- Discover user needs, collect feedback, and present findings to stakeholders.
- Collaborate with product managers and other designers to define, prioritize, and solve problems
- Conduct usability and user tests.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions, and features.
- Oversees moderately complex specific projects and processes.
- May coach and review the work of lower level professionals.
- Translates UX designs into implementation‑ready assets for React-based user interfaces, defining component behaviors, states, and interaction patterns.
- Partners with frontend engineers to validate UI feasibility, ensure accurate design implementation, and support iterative refinement during development.
- Conducts UX research, including usability testing, user interviews, heuristic reviews, and workflow assessments, to inform design decisions.
- Performs analysis of legacy application workflows and interfaces, recommending and implementing incremental UX improvements within technical constraints.
- Develops and maintains design system elements, style guides, and reusable UI patterns that support consistency across digital products.
- Synthesizes qualitative and quantitative user insights into clear findings, presenting results and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Collaborates with product managers, engineering teams, and business partners to clarify requirements, define user problems, and prioritize design solutions.
- Supports Agile ceremonies and cross‑functional planning activities, providing design input throughout the product lifecycle.
Provides mentorship and design guidance to junior team members as needed.
- Bachelor's Degree in Design, Computer Science, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, or Informatics.
- 5-7 years of relevant professional experience required.
Job‑Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, Human‑Computer Interaction (HCI), Graphic Design, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.- 5+ years of UX/UI design experience supporting digital products or web applications.
- Demonstrated experience designing interfaces that integrate with React UI component libraries or other component‑based frontend frameworks.
- Proficiency in industry design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar platforms.
- 3+ years of experience conducting usability tests, user research, or experience analysis activities.
- 3+ years of experience creating wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design specifications for development teams.
- Demonstrated ability to modernize or enhance legacy application workflows through incremental UX improvements.
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles, accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG), and user‑centered design methodologies.
- Experience collaborating within Agile environments and participating in cross‑functional product development activities.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey design rationale to technical and non‑technical audiences.
Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience working directly with React teams or contributing to React component library documentation.- Familiarity with HTML/CSS structures and how design decisions affect front‑end implementation (no coding required).
- Experience contributing to or managing design systems, pattern libraries, or UI documentation frameworks.
- Background modernizing enterprise or mission‑critical legacy applications.
- Experience with analytics tools (e.g., Hotjar, GA, FullStory) to inform UX decision‑making.
- Knowledge of accessibility compliance workflows and inclusive design standards.
- Experience mentoring junior designers or reviewing design deliverables for quality and consistency.