Senior User Experience Designer

Build Deploy and Maintain AI for an Unpredictable World

Striveworks helps organizations harness the power of artificial intelligence to solve real-world national security and business challenges by serving as the command center between data models and business outcomes. Founded by data scientists and engineers Striveworks set out to make the journey from deployment to ongoing optimization simple and effective.

With Striveworks organizations arent just deploying AItheyre building systems that remain reliable adaptable and ready to scale in an unpredictable world. Mission-critical operations require models that perform where theyre deployed scale as workloads grow and adapt rapidly as AI capabilities advance. Striveworks meets these demands increasing reliability and performance while lowering costsand enabling confident data-driven decision-making in dynamic environments.

The Role

As a Senior User Experience (UX) Designer at Striveworks youll be challengedand trustedon day one to be a core contributor to the direction of the company.

Youre right for this opportunity if you enjoy driving the evolution of our user experience across platform and products. You will work closely with our product management engineering and data science teams to design and implement user-centered solutions that make sophisticated machine learning workflows intuitive and productive for the experts who depend on them.

Your day-to-day will include:

• Collaborating cross-functionally with product management engineering and data science teams to understand user needs define user flows and communicate design decisions that shape product strategy
• Conducting user interviews usability testing and feedback analysis to drive rapid iterative design improvements that identify pain points and validate assumptions
• Developing wireframes prototypes and high-fidelity designs in Figma; synthesizing market research and product strategy to deliver seamless end-to-end user experiences
• Owning and evolving the design system as a shared language across product design and engineeringenabling faster and more consistent collaboration throughout the product development life cycle
• Driving the integration of AI-assisted design workflows into how the team works and nurturing a user-centric culture that values experimentation and continuous improvement

This position offers a fully remote work environment or you can work hybrid/on site at our office in northwest Austin TX.

The Right Fit

In addition to the specific skills and expertise detailed below we are looking for individuals who share our values. Sharing a set of values allows us to move at the speed of trust.

Collectively we value a high-trust work environment where people respect each other and use candor kindly and constructively. We value work that intersects passion and perseverance we geek out about the potential of our contributions and we find joy in working hard on things that matter. Finally we value taking ownership having agency and feeling individual responsibility for collective results.

Heres what were looking for:

• Bachelors or masters degree in UX design HCI or related field and 6 years of relevant experience
• Portfolio that demonstrates not just craft but systems thinking and strategic impactshowing how your work shaped product direction not just product appearance
• Deep proficiency with Figma
• Demonstrated ability to drive alignment across product engineering and design teams without direct authority
• Eager to work at the frontier of AI-assisted designexperimenting with and helping to evolve how agentic tools shape the way products are designed and built
• Proactive self-directed and energized by ambiguitysomeone who moves toward open problems rather than waiting for them to be defined
• Motivated by work that mattersStriveworks serves organizations where the quality of decisions has real consequences
• Due to the nature of this role candidates must be a US person (a US citizen a US national or a Green Card holder)

The Wish List

Were very interested in candidates who possess the above qualifications and we appreciate and consider the addition of:

• Experience designing for data-dense or technical interfaces (such as dashboards monitoring tools or developer tools) where managing complexity and maintaining clarity are central design challenges
• Experience with machine learning or data science concepts

The anticipated base pay range for this position is $160000$200000/year. Striveworks total compensation package includes a competitive base salary equity grants and cash bonuses.

The Benefits

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• Voluntary life long-term disability accident and hospital indemnity insurance
• HSA and FSA (including dependent care FSA) plans
• 401(k) plan
• Unlimited PTO
• Paid parental leave

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Striveworks is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race color religion belief sex (including pregnancy and gender identity or expression) national origin social or ethnic origin political affiliation sexual orientation marital status disability genetic information age membership in an employee organization retaliation parental status military service or other non-merit factors. Striveworks will not tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.

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