Lead UX/UI Designer

Accurate Background helps the world’s largest employers hire with confidence. We’re looking for a Senior / Lead UX/UI Designer to bring human-centered design into the core of how we build products. This role is a mix of hand-on and strategic. You’ll design end-to-end experiences, conduct user research, and help define and maintain UX standards across the organization. You’ll also manage and mentor a junior designer while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders. This is a high-impact opportunity to establish UX as a core competency at Accurate. What You’ll Do Own end-to-end design: Work with Product Managers, engineers, and stakholders to translate complex problems into clear, intuitive experiences across our client portal (enterprise customers) and candidate portal (consumer users). Champion user research: Conduct interviews, build prototypes, usability testing, and other research methods to ground designs in customer insights and data. Establish standards: Build and maintain a design system, create reusable patterns, and define best practices that scale across teams. Shape process: Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate UX into our product development lifecycle (move from reactive screen design to proactive, strategic design involvement.) Lead and mentor: Provide guidance to a junior UX/UI designer, helping grow their skills while modeling best practices. What we are looking for 5+ years of relevant experience in UX/UI design, with a track record of delivering enterprise products. Demonstrated experience building design systems and setting UX/UI standards from the ground up. Demonstrated ability to deliver on data-informed web and mobile experience that balance user needs and business goals. Experience operating independently in complex, distributed organizations while maintaining a bias for action. Ability to effectively communicate the “WHY” of design to cross-functional leaders. Proficiency with modern design and collaboration tools. Prior experience managing designers is strongly preferred. Experience with AI based design tools strongly preferred. Why join us Impact at scale: Your work will touch both enterprise customers and millions of candidates going through the hiring process. Build from the ground up: You will have the opportunity to define how UX/UI operates with an established, global business. Growth & mentorship: You’ll lead and mentor a designer, with future opportunities to expand your scope as the UX function grows.