The Position
Savas Labs seeks a senior UX/UI design leader who leads with UX: product strategy, research, and data that show why a design decision is the right one. You use the best of modern tools to prototype rapidly and embrace the shrinking gap between design and production-ready code.
You’ll own client relationships, lead stakeholder workshops, and represent Savas in client presentations, prospect pitches, and conference talks.
Role Details
Reports to the Director of Design
Experience: 6+ years in design, including leading client work (agency or consultancy experience a plus)
Remote Location:
- LA
- Chicago
- Philadelphia
- Atlanta
Compensation
$110,000–$145,000, plus incentive compensation when you help bring in new client work
Responsibilities
Client Delivery
- Lead discovery and stakeholder workshops: user journey mapping, goal setting, requirements definition, and prioritization
- Plan and run user research, usability testing, and accessibility and UX audits, and pair what you learn with analytics to shape information architecture, user flows, and sitemaps
- Produce wireframes, high-fidelity visual design, UI systems, and production-ready prototypes
- Use AI across research, ideation, and execution: build repeatable workflows, check its output critically, and hold a high bar for quality
Design Leadership
- Lead client meetings: present and defend design decisions with the research and data behind them, speak to our capabilities, and field strategic and business questions on the spot
- Think like a product owner: shape the work and spot what the client needs before they ask
Agency Growth & Business Development
- Support business development with design approaches, estimates, proposals, and quick prototypes that help win work
- Build Savas’s voice: share what research and data show about design, in writing and at meetups and conferences
Professional Knowledge
- Usability: deep, practical fluency across web and app contexts
- Websites and apps: how CMSes, websites, and apps are built, and how to design within development constraints
- Accessibility: inclusive design and WCAG 2.2+ guidelines in practice
- Research and measurement: qualitative and quantitative research methods, usability testing, and analytics
Experience
- End-to-end design work across strategy, UX, and visual design on a range of project types, shown in your portfolio
- Using research and data to shape design decisions and to help clients and teammates see the reasoning behind them
- Leading client workshops, presentations, and stakeholder alignment on your own
- Using AI design and prototyping tools in shipped work, with a clear view of how AI has changed your process
- Working closely with developers through specs, documentation, and code-adjacent prototypes
Join the Savas team
Does this sound like you?
Send us an application and we'll be in touch within a couple of business days.
