Lead UX/UI Designer

When you join Accurate Background, youre an integral part of making every hire the start of a success story. Your contributions will help us fulfill our mission of advancing the background screening experience through visibility and insights, empowering our clients to make smarter, unbiased decisions. Were 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. Youll design end-to-end experiences, conduct user research, and help define and maintain UX standards across the organization. Youll also manage and mentor a junior designer while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders. Responsibilities: - Own end-to-end design: Work with Product Managers, engineers, and stakeholders 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. Requirements: - 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: Youll lead and mentor a designer, with future opportunities to expand your scope as the UX function grows. The Accurate Way: We offer a fun, fast-paced environment, with lots of room for growth. We have an unwavering commitment to diversity, ensuring everyone has a complete sense of belonging here. To do this, we follow four guiding principles Take Ownership, Be Open, Stay Curious, Work as One core values that dictate what we stand for, and how we behave. About Accurate Background: Accurate Backgrounds vision is to make every hire the start of a success story. As a trusted provider of employment background screening and workforce monitoring services, Accurate Background gives companies of all sizes the confidence to make smarter, unbiased hiring decisions at the speed of demand. Experience a current standard of support with a dedicated team, comprehensive technology and insight, and the most extensive coverage and search options to advance your business while keeping your brand and people safe. When you join Accurate Background, youre an integral part of making every hire the start of a success story. Your contributions will help us fulfill our mission of advancing the background screening experience through visibility and insights, empowering our clients to make smarter, unbiased decisions. Were 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. Youll design end-to-end experiences, conduct user research, and help define and maintain UX standards across the organization. Youll also manage and mentor a junior designer while partnering closely with product and engineering leaders. Responsibilities: - Own end-to-end design: Work with Product Managers, engineers, and stakeholders 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