Senior User Experience Designer

About Ontra

Ontra is the global leader in AI legal tech for private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from 1M+ contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra's private markets technology platform streamlines and optimizes critical legal and compliance workflows across the full fund lifecycle. Ontra’s purpose-built solutions automate contracts, streamline obligation management, digitize entity management, and surface insights. Trusted by more than 800 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors - including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide - Ontra helps firms focus on what’s important to them.

Our Culture

Ontra is a remote-first company that values the power of connection. We find innovative ways to stay connected, both virtually and in person. By promoting ownership, inspiring creativity, and championing collaboration, Ontra enables you to shape your impact and growth. Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our technology; it’s embedded in our culture, and AI plays a crucial role in everything we do.

Our culture is one where belonging is the cornerstone of every interaction, rooted in acceptance and respect for all. Our commitment to inclusion begins at the application process, ensuring a fair and equitable hiring experience that values the unique contributions you bring from day one.

About the Role

Ontra is seeking a Senior UX Designer reporting to our Director, UX.

To foster team connection and collaboration, this role requires being present in either our Santa Barbara or San Francisco office up to once per quarter for team meetings and off-sites. As such, we are only considering candidates who are currently based in California.

We’re looking for someone excited to champion user insights and drive value by exploring user behavior and feedback, masterfully demo and understand product facets within the Ontra ecosystem, strategically prioritize innovative features while staying ahead of industry trends, and lead a team in delivering seamless, well-designed user experiences.

If you are a highly empathetic Senior User Experience Designer who thrives on user-focused design and collaborates seamlessly with multidisciplinary teams, we'd love to get to know you!

What You’ll Do

• User Research and Insight Gathering: Lead efforts to analyze user behavior and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities for enhancing customer value.
• Product Mastery: Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the product, its features, and value propositions, while understanding its relationship with the broader Ontra ecosystem.
• Strategic Collaboration: Advocate for and contribute to setting and achieving OKRs, prioritize new features and improvements, and maintain awareness of competitor and industry trends to inform product decisions.
• Team Leadership: Empower and guide team members to deliver exceptional user experiences, ensuring alignment on customer problems to solve and celebrating team achievements.
• UX Design and Innovation: Utilize the design system effectively to streamline UI, leverage AI for optimizing task efficiency, and engage in rapid prototyping for quick iteration and validation.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Build strong relationships with teams across Customer Success, Marketing, and Sales to ensure cohesive and consistent user experiences.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: 5+ years in user experience design.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to understand and focus on the rationale and outcomes behind design work.
• User Research: Experience in conducting user research, leading calls, and utilizing qualitative and quantitative data to guide UX decisions.
• Prototyping Skills: Proficiency in creating prototypes, with experience in tools such as Figma, Axure, or similar platforms being an advantage.
• Systematic Design: Ability to design with a component library and usability best practices in mind.
• User-Centered Focus: Emphasis on creating simple, intuitive, and easy-to-use experiences rather than focusing on flashy, creative UI.
• Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an agile environment, with flexibility and ability to collaborate across various teams.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Strategic Design Partner: Collaborate with an empowered product team to directly influence the product's strategic direction.
• High IQ, high EQ: Partner with high-performing colleagues who are a joy to work with.
• AI Everywhere: You’ll build products with AI at their core, inventing experiences and capabilities that have never before been possible.
• Career Growth: We intentionally develop our teammates and often promote from within. A significant portion of the design team has advanced within Ontra.
• Remote Work: An engaging remote culture with regular team meetups.

Pay Transparency

Ontra takes individual candidate location, experience, and skills into consideration when determining compensation. The base pay range is listed below. Additionally, all positions are eligible for unit-based equity grants.

Some positions may be eligible for additional compensation, such as commission or other variable compensation structures, which is not included in the below base pay range.

If you are selected to participate in our interview process, your Talent Acquisition Partner will share more details about the total compensation package for the role.

Base Pay Range

$163,000—$228,000 USD

Hiring Locations

We currently hire exclusively in the locations listed below. Select jobs may have more specific location requirements due to business needs.

United States

_Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington

_APAC

_Hong Kong

_EMEA

_United Kingdom

_Benefits Snapshot

• Remote-first working policy, with office hubs in SF, NYC, Santa Barbara, and London
• Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
• Paid flexible time off policy
• Paid parental leave and benefits
• Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
• Company-sponsored LinkedIn Learning accounts, department budgets for professional development, and robust onboarding program
• Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance

Travel

Occasional travel is required for Ontra employees, including typically at least twice per year to attend team and larger group off-sites for in-person collaboration. For some roles, additional travel may be required based on the requirements of the role and business need.

Inclusivity

Ontra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Ontra will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact people@ontra.ai.

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_Note on Employment Verification: All employees hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in their particular location.

__Note to External Agencies: We are not accepting any blind submissions or resumes/CVs from recruitment agencies. Any candidates sent to Ontra will NOT be accepted or considered as a submission without a signed agreement in place.

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