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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Principal UX Design Lead - **Company:** Gravity Hair Salon, LLC - **Location:** Cincinnati, OH, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $150,000.0 - $175,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Code Generation, Software Prototyping, Mixpanel, ReactJS, B2b Software, Material UI, Figma - **Published:** August 13, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.gravityitresources.com/job/9700 ## About the Role * 7-10+ years of UX/product design experience, including senior-level work on complex, data-rich B2B or enterprise products. * A strong portfolio you can walk through in detail - this is the primary way design craft will be evaluated. * 2-3+ years of experience directly leading, coaching, or managing designers. * Proven ability to work confidently with, and present design rationale to, executive stakeholders. * Hands-on experience with Figma in a team environment where engineering builds in React. * Experience building or significantly maturing a design system and component library. * Demonstrated experience running fast, clickable prototyping (rather than static comps) to align product, design, and engineering before development starts. * Comfort operating in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment - priorities, org structure, and process here shift often. * Strong interest in how AI is changing design and product delivery, and how design work can feed directly into AI-assisted development., * Experience with Pendo, or a comparable product analytics/in-app guidance tool (e.g., WalkMe, Mixpanel). * Background in fintech, payments, or another complex, highly regulated B2B software environment. * Experience designing data-heavy, grid-based enterprise interfaces. * Experience working on a fully remote, distributed product and design team. ## Description We're partnering with a high-growth, global financial technology company that helps businesses manage payments, spend, and complex financial workflows across several lines of business, to find a Principal UX Design Lead for its enterprise product design team. This is a newly created role sitting above a small, growing design team, and it's intentionally built to be both a leader and a hands-on contributor. You'll set UX vision and standards for a data-rich, multi-product enterprise platform, coach and grow two designers on staff, and stay directly involved in shipping design work yourself. The organization is in the middle of significant transformation: rapid growth through acquisition, an evolving delivery methodology, and a strong, forward-leaning investment in AI across the product and engineering org. This role plays a central part in connecting the design process, from early concept through clickable prototype, directly into that AI-accelerated delivery pipeline. What You'll Do * Own UX strategy and design standards across a complex, data-dense enterprise platform spanning multiple product lines. * Coach and mentor a team of two designers (one senior, one advancing toward a senior level), with room for the team to grow further. * Stay hands-on: personally design and prototype for high-priority initiatives alongside your team - this is not a pure management role. * Champion a shift from static, screen-by-screen handoffs to fast, clickable prototyping - modeled on a design-sprint style approach - so engineering receives a validated, interactive prototype instead of a written spec. * Own and evolve the company's design system and component library, partnering closely with engineering (Figma to React) to keep it consistent and scalable. * Partner with product and engineering leadership to front-load design and user validation before development starts, reducing rework and last-minute, "just-in-time" design requests. * Help define how the design system and prototyping process feed directly into AI-assisted code generation as the organization matures its AI-driven delivery model. * Present design direction, tradeoffs, and rationale directly to senior and executive stakeholders. * Bring a point of view on in-app guidance and product analytics tooling (e.g., Pendo or similar) to inform design and onboarding decisions. ## Related Videos - [Boost Productivity with AI: Figma & Playwright MCP Workflows - Aris Markogiannakis](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1768-boost-productivity-with-ai-figma-playwright-mcp-workflows-aris-markogiannakis) - [Watch Tests Go Brrrr! : Getting Started with Cypress in ReactJS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/282-watch-tests-go-brrrr-getting-started-with-cypress-in-reactjs) - [Breaking Down Silos Between Design and Development ](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/194-breaking-down-silos-between-design-and-development) - [Fireside Chat with Kris Rasmussen, CTO at Figma](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/982-fireside-chat-with-kris-rasmussen-cto-at-figma) - [Designing the Future of Human<>Agent Collaboration](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1447-designing-the-future-of-human-agent-collaboration) - [UX is a fullstack job!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1020-ux-is-a-fullstack-job) ## Related Articles - [The future is here: How artificial intelligence is influencing UX design](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/65-the-future-is-here-how-artificial-intelligence-is-influencing-ux-design) - [16 Best Free React UI Libraries in 2025](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/148-16-best-free-react-ui-libraries-in-2025) - [Declarative Design and a fresh take on collaboration with developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/595-declarative-design-and-a-fresh-take-on-collaboration-with-developers) - [Dev Digest 120 - Apple and peers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/455-dev-digest-120-apple-and-peers) - [10 Essential Figma Plugins for Frontend Developers in 2023](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/262-10-essential-figma-plugins-for-frontend-developers-in-2023) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline)