Senior UX Designer

About Acres

Acres is a leading land intelligence platform analyzing over 150M U.S. land parcels to power faster, smarter decisions for real estate, corporate, agriculture, and finance. Our mission: bring data-driven transparency to America’s largest asset. Learn more at Acres.com.

We are dedicated to the growth of our platform and the growth of our people. We're looking for high performers who go about their work with a sense of curiosity, responsibility, and a drive to make things better. We are a primarily onsite team located in beautiful downtown Fayetteville, Arkansas and this is an onsite position.

• Note: Acres seeks qualified candidates who are eligible to work in the United States. We are unable at this time to provide any sponsorship for work authorization.
  
  

Why Join Acres?

• World-class team: we take talent density seriously. We like working with incredibly smart, driven people who are passionate about our platform, our customers, and their own ability to make an impact on the outcomes of our business. This may be the best group of humans you've worked with.
• Velocity and Urgency: we work fast, which means you'll learn a lot, be exposed to many facets of the business, and the role you're being hired for is needed and impactful to the outcomes of our business. You won't be bored.
• Cutting Edge Product and Technology: Our platform is state-of-the-art and powerful. We're creating tools that make people smarter, reinventing how you discover, create, and share relevant data. You'll be proud of what you create.
• Compensation and Benefits: to support our hardworking team, in addition to competitive compensation plans, we also offer all full-time regular employees:
• medical, vision, and dental insurance for employee, spouse, and dependents
• 401k plan with 4% employer match
• unlimited Paid Time Off
• generous stock options
• company-wide bonus
  

Acres is an equal opportunity employer and recognizes that diverse teams are the strongest teams. We encourage interested individuals of all backgrounds to apply.

About The Role

Are you a highly strategic and hands-on Senior UX Designer ready to drive the next generation

of features for both consumer and enterprise products? This role is essential for leading

end-to-end design initiatives, from foundational architecture to successful feature launches

across our web and mobile platforms. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced, startup

environment, is a champion for the user, and has a proven track record of delivering measurable

business impact through exceptional design.

Core Responsibilities

• Design & Execution Leadership
• Lead End-to-End Design: Spearhead design initiatives for complex features and products across desktop and mobile applications, ensuring consistency and driving significant improvements in user experience.
• Design System Ownership: Maintain and govern a scalable and reusable Design System, using established design standards.
• Information Architecture & Workflow: Successfully design and architect platform interfaces to improve information hierarchy, scalability, and overall user workflows.
• Prototyping & Communication: Create detailed interaction prototypes, and comprehensive design documentation to effectively communicate design solutions to development and product teams.
• User-Centered Research & Strategy
• Lead End-to-End Design: Spearhead design initiatives for complex features and products across desktop and mobile applications, ensuring consistency and driving significant improvements in user experience.
• Direct Research Initiatives: Plan, execute, and synthesize findings from direct user research, usability testing, and data analysis to inform design decisions, validate solutions, and continuously iterate on the product experience.
• Stakeholder Alignment: Collaborate cross-functionally with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, and business stakeholders to define requirements, manage dependencies, and ensure successful implementation of features that meet both user needs and business goals.
• Market Awareness: Stay informed about user experiences in competitor products and current industry trends to ensure our products remain innovative and competitive.
  

Key Competencies & Requirements

• Experience: 6 years of progressive experience working as a UX Designer, Product Designer, or similar role, with a portfolio showcasing complex problem-solving.
• Design Tools Mastery: Significant hands-on experience using modern design tools such as Figma (preferred), Sketch, and Adobe XD for rapid prototyping and design system management.
• Research Expertise: Excellent knowledge of user research methodologies, including generative and evaluative techniques, and the ability to translate findings into actionable design requirements and user profiles/personas.
• Technical Environment: Solid understanding of usability and discoverability principles, as well as an established comfort working effectively in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Strategic Mindset: Proven ability to manage multiple large-scale design projects concurrently and translate high-level business goals into concrete, executable design deliverables.
• Soft Skills: Strong interpersonal communication skills, highly transparent and open to feedback, and comfortable advocating for design solutions within a cross-functional team.
• Entrepreneurial Spirit: An entrepreneurial mindset and ability to thrive in a self-directed, dynamic startup environment. Startup experience strongly preferred.
  
  

This is an onsite position in Fayetteville, Arkansas.