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Senior Product Designer / UX-UI Lead
Location: Orange County, CA (currently remote, transitioning to onsite in Irvine)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Compensation: Up to $185,000 base salary + equity opportunity + comprehensive benefits (NO C2C, NO SPONSORSHIP, NO 1099)
About the Opportunity
Our client is an innovative technology company building next-generation digital experiences for a rapidly growing customer base. They are seeking a Senior Product Designer / UX-UI Lead to drive the vision, strategy, and execution of mobile and digital product experiences across a scalable, multi-brand platform ecosystem.
This is a highly visible position that offers the opportunity to influence product strategy, improve customer journeys, mature an existing design system, and help shape the future of several consumer-facing applications from the ground up.
The ideal candidate combines strong UX thinking, exceptional visual design skills, and deep expertise in creating scalable design systems for mobile-first products.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end UX and UI design for native iOS and Android applications.
- Transform product concepts and business requirements into intuitive, elegant, and production-ready experiences.
- Own and evolve a scalable design system, including components, variants, typography, spacing, accessibility standards, and documentation.
- Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, user flows, wireframes, and developer-ready specifications in Figma.
- Design reusable frameworks that support multiple branded customer experiences while maintaining consistency and usability.
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, QA, Analytics, and executive stakeholders to bring new initiatives to market.
- Conduct usability testing, gather customer insights, and validate design decisions using data and research.
- Participate in design reviews, implementation reviews, and design QA through release cycles.
- Mentor and provide guidance to junior designers while helping establish design best practices across the organization.
Key Initiatives
This individual will play a critical role in several strategic initiatives, including:
- Redesigning a flagship mobile application from the ground up.
- Enhancing personalization and AI-driven customer experiences.
- Expanding a scalable multi-brand digital platform.
- Improving consistency across mobile and web customer journeys.
- Building more sophisticated design systems and component libraries that support long-term growth and scale.
Required Qualifications
- 7+ years of Product Design, UX/UI Design, or Digital Product Design experience.
- Strong portfolio demonstrating polished, consumer-facing mobile applications.
- Advanced expertise in Figma, including:
- Auto Layout
- Components
- Variants
- Design libraries
- Prototyping
- Design systems
- Deep understanding of native iOS and Android design patterns and best practices.
- Experience creating or significantly maturing enterprise-grade design systems.
- Strong UX architecture and interaction design capabilities.
- Ability to create build-ready designs and collaborate closely with engineering teams.
- Demonstrated success designing complex user journeys such as onboarding, account management, subscriptions, payments, billing, support, or self-service experiences.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing mobile-first subscription products.
- Background in telecommunications, communications technology, fintech, SaaS, or digital consumer platforms.
- Experience supporting white-label, multi-tenant, or multi-brand product environments.
- Familiarity with AI-powered customer experiences and conversational interfaces.
- Experience working with activation, payments, recurring billing, or self-service account management workflows.
Tools & Technologies
- Figma & FigJam (Expert)
- Adobe Creative Cloud (Photoshop & Illustrator)
- Product Analytics Platforms (Amplitude, Mixpanel, GA4, or similar)
- User Research & Testing Platforms (Maze, UserTesting, Lookback, or similar)
- Jira, Linear, or equivalent project management tools
- Accessibility standards, design tokens, and developer handoff workflows
What Makes Someone Successful in This Role
The strongest candidates will have experience:
- Designing sophisticated mobile applications at scale.
- Building reusable component libraries and scalable design systems.
- Working within subscription-based or customer account management ecosystems.
- Delivering clean, simple, and highly polished user experiences.
- Translating ambiguous ideas into thoughtful, production-ready solutions.
- Balancing user needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Thinking in systems rather than individual screens.
Portfolio Requirements
Please include a portfolio showcasing:
- Native mobile application design work
- End-to-end UX thinking and problem solving
- Design system ownership and component architecture
- High-fidelity visual design and interaction design
- Examples demonstrating scalability across multiple products, brands, or platforms
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, ancestry, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, or military or veteran status. We consider all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws, including the California Fair Chance Act, City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
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