Senior Manager, User Experience

11 hours, 20 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Product Management
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 and uphold the craft standard for design critique, research review, prototyping, interaction quality, and accessibility.
  • Coach the team in Jobs to be Done methods and translate research findings into job stories the team can use.
  • Define interaction patterns, principles, guardrails, and evaluation methods for AI-driven UX.
  • Build a reusable pattern library for AI capabilities and help teams test whether patterns work.
  • Strengthen the relationship with Engineering and Product through clear handoff standards, technical documentation, and trade-off decisions.
  • Define research standards, methods, and tooling, with attention to sampling, bias, and methodological limits.
  • Own Design Operations and Research Operations, including tooling, templates, participant recruitment, and scalable processes.
  • Help steer the design system strategy with Engineering so consistency is easier to achieve.
  • Hire, onboard, evaluate, and grow the UX team while extending the UX career framework.

Requirements

  • Minimum 5 years of substantial UX experience with depth in both user research and product design.
  • At least 5 years of direct management experience with designers and/or researchers.
  • Hands-on Jobs to be Done experience, including switch interviews and job story creation.
  • Hands-on experience designing or leading AI- or ML-powered features.
  • Deep command of research methods, including interviewing, surveys, testing, ethnographic work, and mixed-method study design.
  • Strong design craft in information architecture, interaction design, and prototyping.
  • Experience defining outcome-based UX metrics and using them to influence a roadmap.
  • Real fluency with design-engineering handoff in an Agile environment.
  • Comfort working in ambiguous, cross-functional problems that require investigation.
  • B2B or enterprise SaaS experience, ideally with 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 levelling criteria (preferred).
  • Background contributing to an accessibility conformance program (preferred).

Benefits

  • Company equity for every team member.
  • 25 days of annual leave per year.
  • Up to 10 unused vacation days can be carried over to the next year.
  • Reduced summer hours for better work-life balance.
  • Flexible bank holidays.
  • Fully remote work within Spain, with access to the Bilbao office.
  • Access to Appfire University for continuous learning and professional development.
  • Private health insurance fully covered by Appfire for enrolled employees, plus discounted family coverage.
  • €400 gross annual sport allowance.
  • €50 per month for home office and remote work expenses.
  • 3 fully paid volunteering days each year.

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