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Senior UX Strategist
Location
United States
Posted
3 hours ago
Salary
$150K - $168K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior UX Strategist
Accela
• Contribute to and help evolve UX strategy across Accela’s platform, grounded in user needs, product goals, and architectural direction • Translate product strategy into experience principles, frameworks, and interaction models across assigned product areas • Drive consistency in user experience across workflows, surfaces, and product experiences • Support and apply UX standards, patterns, and design system principles across teams • Partner in developing research strategies to understand user behaviors, workflows, and unmet needs • Synthesize qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable design and product recommendations • Work closely with UX Research and Product teams to ensure insights inform roadmap priorities and design decisions • Advocate for continuous discovery and user feedback throughout the product development lifecycle • Define end-to-end user journeys, workflows, and interaction patterns for complex product areas • Provide strategic input into design solutions, ensuring alignment with user needs, accessibility standards, and product goals • Collaborate with Product Designers to translate strategy into high-quality designs and prototypes • Ensure design decisions align with broader platform standards and design systems • Partner closely with Product Management, Engineering, and Design to align UX strategy with roadmap priorities and technical constraints • Influence product direction through a user-centered perspective, contributing to prioritization and solution decisions • Drive alignment across teams to support consistent experience delivery from concept through release • Contribute to strategic discussions related to product direction and customer experience • Identify UX gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities within assigned product areas; recommend scalable improvements • Contribute to platform modernization efforts, including workflow simplification and experience consistency • Support the adoption of emerging UX practices, including AI-assisted and data-informed design approaches • Help define and track UX success metrics, including usability, adoption, and user satisfaction • Promote data-informed decision-making within UX and product teams • Communicate UX insights, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in UX strategy, product design, or related roles within B2B SaaS or enterprise software
- Experience contributing to UX strategy for complex products or multi-surface applications
- Strong foundation in user research, interaction design, and experience architecture
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally and influence without formal authority
- Strong communication skills, including ability to present to stakeholders and product leadership
- Experience working within agile product development environments
- Experience in govtech, public sector, or highly regulated enterprise environments (desired)
- Experience working on platform or multi-product ecosystems (desired)
- Familiarity with accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG 2.1 AA) and inclusive design practices (desired)
- Experience contributing to or working within a design system (desired)
- Exposure to AI-driven UX patterns, conversational interfaces, or emerging interaction models (desired)
Benefits
- flexible time off
- comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans
- family planning benefits
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
- health savings account with company contributions
- flexible spending account
- life, accident, and disability coverage
- business travel insurance
- employee assistance programs
- other well-being benefits
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