Senior UX Designer

Description

Senior UX Designer

What You’ll Do

As a Senior UX Designer, you’ll play a key role in driving thoughtful, customer-centered design across our digital experiences. You will:

• Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and other designers to define and deliver high-impact design solutions.
• Take initiative to identify vague or complex customer problems and carry solutions through from concept to launch.
• Develop and execute end-to-end design processes, including research, ideation, wireframing, prototyping, user testing, and iteration.
• Apply best practices in UX and visual design to create elegant, accessible, and inclusive user experiences.
• Regularly communicate design progress, plans, and decisions with peers, stakeholders, and leadership.
• Facilitate collaborative design activities such as design critiques, workshops, and sprint planning.
• Define success criteria for your design work and track performance post-launch.
• Identify areas for process improvement and advocate for ways to streamline design and development workflows.
• Mentor and support peers by providing thoughtful, constructive feedback and sharing design knowledge.

What We’re Looking For

Must-Haves:

• 4+ years of experience in UX design, product design, or interaction design roles.
• Strong portfolio showcasing end-to-end product design work, including research, UX strategy, and final design deliverables.
• Ability to drive design projects independently, while knowing when to seek input or alignment.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Sketch, or similar.
• Strong communication and storytelling skills to clearly explain design rationale to cross-functional partners.
• Demonstrated ability to balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
• Comfortable conducting and synthesizing both qualitative and quantitative user research.
• Ability to effectively manage and prioritize work in a collaborative, Agile environment.
• Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity, with an understanding of relevant standards (e.g., WCAG).

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience working on B2B SaaS or enterprise products.
• Familiarity with design systems and contributing to their evolution.
• Understanding of HTML/CSS and how design translates to development.
• Experience working within fast-paced, cross-functional teams.
• Passion for mentoring others and elevating team design practices.
• Active engagement in DEI learning and applying inclusive practices to design.

Compensation

_For roles with compensation ranges:

_In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the monthly base salary range for this position is 369,400 - 554,100 gross RON, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses. If you are hired at Payscale, your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. In addition to those factors – we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider any internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that the range mentioned above is the full base salary range for the role. Hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical in order to allow for future & continued salary growth. We also offer a generous compensation and benefits package (more information on benefits listed below).

About Payscale

As the industry leader in compensation management, Payscale is on a mission to help job seekers, employees, and businesses get pay right and to make sustainable fair pay a reality. Empowering more than 65% of the Fortune 500, Payscale provides a combination of diverse and dynamic data sources, experienced compensation services, and scalable software to enable organizations such as Angel City Football Club, Panasonic, Mars Global, eBay, American Airlines and PetSmart to make fair and appropriate pay decisions.

Pay is powerful. To learn more, visit www.payscale.com.

Location

Payscale Romania has an employee centric hybrid model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person in our office for the moments that matter.

In our hybrid model, employees can work from the location that works best for them when not in the office.

When you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment and workspace requirements:

• High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal.
• Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc.

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year) we take the time to gather in larger groups for in-person events. Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.

Benefits And Perks

All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:

• Respect every individual, work as a team
• Be Customer first, customer centric
• Have a Bias towards action
• Commit to excellence (we give our best everyday)
• Make Data driven decisions

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:

• Monthly company All Hands meetings
• Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs
• Access to continued learning & development opportunities
• Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth
• A growing network of Employee Resource Groups
• Company sponsored volunteer hours
• And more!

Our More Standard Benefits

• 15 paid Romania public holidays + 2 additional Payscale holidays (Global Mental Health Day & US Independence Day)
• 25 paid days of additional leave
• Supplemental medical covered by Payscale for employees
• Employees can add supplemental for family/spouse/dependents at their own expense
• Additional days of per RO Labor Code that are not included in holidays & additional leave days

Equal Opportunity Employer:

We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs.

We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you.

If you have a disability or impairment and need assistance with the application process, please email [email protected] for support.

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