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UX/UI Designer
Location: Remote (U.S. based)
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports to: VP of Product
About AscentAI
AscentAI builds intelligent software to help risk and compliance teams at financial institutions keep pace with ever-evolving global regulation. Our platform transforms complex regulatory information into clear, actionable insights enabling teams to reduce risk, increase efficiency, and stay ahead of change.
We’re a small, mission-driven company pushing the boundaries of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human-in-the-loop systems to solve some of the hardest problems in regulatory compliance.
The Role
We’re looking for a UX/UI Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the user experience and UI design of AscentAI’s global SaaS platform. You’ll collaborate closely with product and technical teams to conduct user research, design highly usable software products, and deliver best-in-class user experiences.
You’ll also serve as a user and UX/UI expert for stakeholders in product, engineering, data science, regulatory intelligence, sales, and customer support. This is a high-impact role with real ownership and visibility, offering the opportunity to influence product and business outcomes.
What You’ll Do
- Identify target user groups and conduct user research to help identify, clarify, and understand user needs (functional, emotional, and behavioral)
- Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to design highly usable software solutions solving real customer needs
- Manage UX/UI Design Discovery, utilizing current industry best practices and user testing methods
- Produce design artifacts including wireframes, UI designs, and interactive mock-ups, and manage Design Discovery to test, validate, and iterate on product features, user journeys, interactions, and user-interfaces
- Conduct design reviews with software engineering teams and provide UI specification and testing for all user-interface features
- Work closely with product leadership to incorporate user research and validation into AscentAI’s product vision, strategy, roadmap, and development
- Serve as an expert on user personas, needs, behaviors, motivations, and goals to product leadership and other stakeholders
Skills
- Human-centered UX/UI design
- Experience using industry tools to create UI designs and interactive mock-ups
- Creative problem solving skills to provide solutions to user interface challenges
- Analytical mindset and an ability to incorporate qualitative and quantitative data into decision making and recommendations
- Multi-tasking and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage deliverables and timelines
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to communicate ideas to product managers and software engineers
- Attention to detail and mastery of information design
Experience
- Minimum of 3-5 years hands-on experience in UX/UI design; demonstrated commercial success with emphasis on software products
- Experience leading design projects, user research, and workshops
- Experience with complex / technical business systems and an ability to strategically analyze how complex data and information can impact user experiences
- Knowledge of human-centered designed, IDEO design thinking, SVPG’s “product operating model”, and/or modern agile software development practices is a strong plus
- Understanding of or industry experience in Compliance, Risk and/or Legal is a plus
- Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning is a plus
Why Join Us?
- A small, collaborative, and fast-moving team where your contributions will have an outsized impact
- The chance to work on meaningful problems in regulatory technology
- Remote-first culture with flexibility and autonomy
- Recognition in the regtech space for our innovation and customer value