Product Designer (Remote - United States)

Empowered builds audit and operational risk management software for professionals in regulated industries. The Product Designer owns end-to-end design of its audit and risk management platform, conducting user research and shaping clear workflows and interfaces while influencing product direction and collaborating with product, engineering and marketing teams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead design for features end to end, from discovery and problem framing through user flows, wireframes, prototypes and high-fidelity UI
• Plan and run user research with audit, risk and compliance professionals — interviews, usability tests and workflow observation — and turn what you learn into clear design decisions
• Design intuitive interfaces for complex, data-dense workflows such as audit planning, risk assessments, issue tracking, dashboards and reporting
• Build, maintain and evolve our design system, including components, patterns and guidelines that keep the product consistent, accessible and fast to build
• Partner daily with product managers and engineers to shape scope, influence roadmap priorities, weigh trade-offs and make sure designs ship as intended
• Measure the impact of shipped work through customer feedback and usage data, and iterate on what you learn
• Champion the user across the company, sharing research findings and design rationale with stakeholders at every level
• Collaborate with product marketing on launches, product demos, screenshots and messaging so the product looks and reads as well as it works

Requirements:

• 4+ years of experience as a product designer, including at least 2 years designing B2B SaaS products
• A portfolio that shows both UX work (research, information architecture, interaction design) and UI work (visual design, typography, layout, component craft) on products that have shipped
• Experience designing complex workflows and data-heavy interfaces such as tables, forms, filters, dashboards and role-based permissions
• Strong proficiency in Figma, including components, variables, auto layout and interactive prototyping
• Explicit knowledge of how to utilize AI in order to facilitate design workflows and designs
• Hands-on experience planning and running user research and usability testing, and translating findings into design changes
• Working knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA) and responsive design
• Clear communication and the confidence to present, explain and adapt design decisions with technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience designing for audit, risk, compliance (GRC), financial services or other highly regulated industries
• Experience creating or scaling a design system in close partnership with engineering
• Familiarity with front-end development (HTML, CSS, React) or design tokens
• Experience as an early or solo designer at a growing software company
• Experience with product analytics tools such as Pendo, Amplitude or FullStory