Principal User Experience Designer

Summary

Join Sagent, a leading mortgage servicing financial technology company, as a Principal UI Designer. You will lead, scale, and evolve our design system across our enterprise product ecosystem, ensuring consistency, usability, and accessibility. Collaborate with product designers, engineers, and stakeholders to maintain a robust design system. You will define and maintain UI components, patterns, and documentation. Deep coding expertise isn't required, but understanding code is beneficial. This high-impact role offers collaboration at scale and room for growth within a supportive and innovative team.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in UI design, with at least 4 years focused on design systems (enterprise-scale experience is a big plus)
• Strong understanding of UI development principles—you can read HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, even if you’re not writing production code
• Deep experience with design tools (Figma, Sketch, etc.) and design system management tools (Storybook)
• Familiarity with component-based design, token-based theming, and front-end frameworks (React, Vue, etc.)
• A solid grasp of accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA) and usability principles
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, especially engineering and product
• Excellent communication skills—you can advocate for the design system and explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences
• A problem-solving mindset with a passion for creating scalable, maintainable, and user-friendly design solutions

Responsibilities

• Own and scale the Figma design system to support a growing enterprise ecosystem
• Define and maintain UI components, patterns, and documentation that empower designers and developers
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure seamless design-to-code implementation (you don’t need to write production code, but you should understand how it works)
• Advocate for best practices in accessibility, scalability, and performance across all UI elements
• Work closely with product designers to align system components with evolving user needs while maintaining visual and functional consistency
• Standardize workflows for contribution, governance, and adoption of new design patterns
• Conduct design audits and proactively address inconsistencies or gaps in the system
• Serve as a champion of design system adoption, educating teams across the company
• Stay up to date on industry trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously evolve our system

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with enterprise SaaS or B2B products
• Prior work on multi-brand, multi-platform design systems
• Working knowledge of React/Vue
• Knowledge of design tokens and their implementation in modern front-end frameworks

Benefits

• Remote/Hybrid workplace options
• Health Benefits
• Unlimited Flexible Time Off
• Family Planning Services
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Paid Family Leave
• 401(k) Matching
• Pet Insurance
• LinkedIn Learning
• Virtual Social Experiences
• Career Pathing
• Focus Time Fridays