Staff UX Designer

About Kinaxis

About the role

Are you ready to shape the future of enterprise SaaS design? At Kinaxis we’re revolutionizing how businesses solve their most complex challenges. As a Staff UX Designer, you’ll be at the forefront of crafting intuitive, scalable, and transformative experiences for our cutting-edge solutions.

This is your chance to work in a fast-moving environment where your designs will have a global impact. Bring your creativity, strategic mindset, and passion for user-centric design to a role where every decision you make directly influences our customer success.

As a Staff UX Designer you will create delightful and meaningful experiences for Kinaxis users. You will be responsible for pushing the boundaries of what our enterprise solutions can achieve, ensuring our product is not only functional but also intuitive for our customers.

You are a seasoned professional design guru with in-depth experience designing scalable, empowering, and modern experiences for product features. You will work closely with product managers, engineers, stakeholders and users to discover and validate design solutions. This is a hands-on product design role where you will produce “Wow!” design solutions that meet business goals and spark joy.

We are committed to exceptional user experiences, and at the heart of our approach is Design Thinking, a methodology that fuels our creative process and product development. You follow a human-centric design process that encourages product discovery, ideation, rapid prototyping, iterative feedback, and empathetic user experiences.

Join us in our mission to revolutionize enterprise software with unparalleled UX design, propelling businesses forward through smart, beautiful, and user-focused solutions! If you're passionate about designing beautiful, user-centered solutions and eager to make a significant impact in a dynamic, collaborative environment, we'd love to hear from you.

What you will do

• Use a collaborative design process from product discovery to ideation to execution, incorporating user feedback, and business requirements to create intuitive and transformative user experiences.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to understand requirements, and provide creative, thoughtful solutions.
• Host and facilitate Design Thinking workshops and brainstorming sessions to solve user experience challenges.
• Craft user personas, journey maps, and storyboards to guide design strategies and decisions.
• Create rapid prototypes and high-fidelity designs.
• Use user testing to drive design iteration and achieve great design solutions.
• Leverage AI tools to elevate and accelerate the design process.

What we are looking for

• Education in HCI, industrial design, visual design, Psychology, or equivalent experience.
• 5-7 years of UX design experience with a strong portfolio showcasing your advanced product design skills.
• Strong command of UX/UI design and prototyping tools (e.g., Figma, Miro, Axure).
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and analytical skills.
• Expertise in facilitating workshops.
• Familiarity with agile UX methodologies.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and presentation skills to effectively share the UX vision.
• Mastery of design systems.
• A creative and strategic mindset eager to work on a wide product vision.
• Experience using AI to boost productivity and design quality.
• And this will make you stand out: The ideal candidate is a passionate champion for the user, with a proven track record of delivering innovative, user-centered solutions.
• Experience conducting user research and usability studies.
• Experience working with complex enterprise cloud SaaS applications.

Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.

• Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
• Flexible work options
• Physical and mental well-being programs
• Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
• Mentorship programs and training and career development
• Recognition programs and referral rewards
• Hackathons

Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.