Senior Manager, User Experience

11 hours, 11 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Design and User Experience
Appfire

Appfire

Appfire specializes in providing enterprise collaboration software solutions that enhance workflow and productivity for teams using platforms like Atlassian, Microsoft, and Salesforce, while also offering tools for IT service management and agile work ...

Internet Software & Services
251-1K
$149M raised

Description

  • Lead designers and report directly to the VP of Product Management.
  • Set the craft bar for design critique, research review, prototyping, interaction quality, and accessibility.
  • Coach the team on Jobs to be Done methods and turn interview findings into backlog-ready job stories.
  • Define AI UX principles, guardrails, and pattern libraries for agentic and ML-powered experiences.
  • Create evaluation approaches to test whether UX patterns work and are trustworthy.
  • Improve handoff standards, technical documentation, and collaboration between UX, Engineering, and Product.
  • Drive research standards, methods, tooling, sampling rigor, and bias-aware practice.
  • Own Design Ops and Research Ops, including tooling, templates, participant recruitment, and scalable processes.
  • Shape the design system strategy with Engineering so consistency is built into the workflow.
  • Hire, onboard, develop, and evaluate UX team members while stewarding the career framework.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of substantial UX experience with depth in both user research and product design.
  • At least 5 years managing designers and/or researchers directly.
  • Hands-on Jobs to be Done experience, including switch interviews and job story creation.
  • Experience designing or leading design for AI- or ML-powered features.
  • Deep knowledge of research methods, including interviewing, surveys, usability testing, ethnographic work, and mixed-method study design.
  • Strong interaction design, information architecture, and prototyping skills.
  • Experience defining outcome-based UX metrics and using them to influence a roadmap.
  • Strong understanding of Agile design-to-engineering handoffs.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, cross-functional problems.
  • B2B or enterprise SaaS experience, ideally in developer- or IT-adjacent products.
  • Experience in the Atlassian ecosystem or a comparable platform ecosystem (preferred).
  • Experience scaling a design system or research repository from scratch (preferred).
  • Experience building or rewriting a UX career framework and leveling criteria (preferred).
  • Background contributing to an accessibility conformance program (preferred).

Benefits

  • Company equity for every team member.
  • 26 paid vacation days annually.
  • One fully paid Wellness Day each month.
  • 24 hours of paid volunteer time.
  • 3 fully paid volunteering days each year through Appfire Town.
  • Fully covered Luxmed private healthcare plan, with optional partner coverage and upgrades.
  • UNUM life insurance fully paid by Appfire.
  • MyBenefit platform with 150 PLN per month for multisport, shopping, restaurants, or entertainment.
  • Lunch card with 300 PLN monthly for groceries or dining out.
  • 200 PLN net monthly home office allowance for remote work costs.
  • Access to Appfire University for continuous learning and professional development.

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