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Job ID
LEADU020630
Employment Type
Regular
Work Style
hybrid
Location
Lowell, MA, United States
Travel
Up to 25%
Role
Lead UI & UX Designer
Why UKG:
At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.
We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.
About the team
UKG is building an AI-first suite that helps organizations become great places to work through HR, payroll, workforce management, and culture technology.
You’ll join the team developing Frontline Worker Network, a new UKG-owned network connecting shift and hourly employees with curated services—including financial wellness, health, and everyday essentials—through mobile experiences in the flow of work. You’ll collaborate with UX Research, Product, Engineering, Data, and service partners to shape a new multi-sided experience for workers, employers, and service providers.
About the role
As a Lead Experience Designer, you’ll help take Frontline Worker Network from early concept through launch and continued growth. You’ll turn evolving customer needs and business opportunities into useful, trusted, and accessible experiences for frontline workers.
This is a hands-on design role requiring strong product judgment, systems thinking, and design craft. You’ll balance the needs of multiple audiences, design for the realities of deskless and hourly work, and help the team make thoughtful decisions in an evolving 0-to-1 environment.
In this role, you will:
- Lead end-to-end design across discovery, journey mapping, workflow definition, prototyping, validation, execution, launch, and iteration.
- Design experiences that address the needs of workers, employers, and service partners.
- Make services such as financial wellness, health, and everyday essentials clear, accessible, and trustworthy.
- Design for frontline, deskless, hourly, and mobile-first workers across varied work environments, schedules, and levels of digital access.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, Data, UX Research, and service teams to define opportunities, requirements, trade-offs, and priorities.
- Use research and product analytics to validate concepts and shipped experiences and improve usability, adoption, engagement, and retention.
- Establish interaction patterns and design foundations that can scale as the network adds users, services, and partner integrations.
- Design AI-supported experiences that provide transparency, feedback, user control, and clear system limits.
- Raise the bar for interaction quality, visual craft, accessibility, and consistency through critique, design reviews, shared patterns, and mentorship.
About you
Basic qualifications:
- 8+ years of experience in user experience, product design, or interaction design, including work on complex enterprise products and/or mobile applications.
- Track record of delivering end-to-end design solutions and shaping direction for workflow-heavy or customer-facing experiences.
- Strong product judgment and systems thinking, with the ability to balance customer needs, business goals, and technical constraints.
- Experience using research and product data to guide design decisions and validate outcomes.
- Understanding of accessibility and inclusive product design.
- Experience contributing to shared patterns, reusable frameworks, or design systems.
- Experience designing AI-enabled, adaptive, or other experiences requiring trust, transparency, feedback, and user control.
- Demonstrated use of AI in the design process for exploration, synthesis, prototyping, or execution.
- Strong proficiency with design and prototyping tools, along with the ability to adopt new tools and techniques.
- Excellent storytelling, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas and build alignment across disciplines and levels.
- A portfolio demonstrating product thinking, design craft, and influence on outcomes.
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in human-computer interaction (HCI), design, computer science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience designing mobile-first products for deskless, hourly, or frontline worker populations.
- Experience designing for multiple audiences or stakeholder groups, such as workers, employers, and service partners.
- Experience bringing new products, services, or major capabilities from early concepts toward launch, particularly within a 0-to-1 initiative.
- Experience with marketplace, e-commerce, or service-based products that connect users with third-party offerings.
- Experience in financial wellness, financial technology, health, workforce management, human resources, payroll, or related service areas.
- Familiarity with the needs and constraints of frontline work, including varied work environments, schedules, and levels of digital access.
- A portfolio featuring mobile experiences, multi-sided products, or work shaped by evolving user and partner needs.
Company Overview:
UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge.
Equal Opportunity Employer
UKG is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, disability, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.
UKG participates in E-Verify.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview Process
For individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email UKGCareers@ukg.com.
The pay range for this position is $133,900 to $190,750. The actual base pay offered may vary depending on skills, experience, job-related knowledge and work location. In addition to base pay, employees may be eligible to participate in a performance-based bonus plan and to receive restricted stock unit awards as part of total compensation.
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All job descriptions are written to accurately reflect the open job and include general work responsibilities. They do not present a comprehensive, detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required for the job. Management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed if or when circumstances change.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as a Lead UI/UX Designer
Document your design portfolio for PERM
Your PERM case depends on proving the role requires your specific credentials. Compile annotated case studies that tie each project outcome to your degree field and years of progressive UX leadership, not just visual samples.
Search for verified sponsors on Migrate Mate
Target employers with confirmed green card sponsorship history for design roles. Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified employment-based sponsorship records, searchable by role and location, so you're not guessing at willingness.
Distinguish EB-2 from EB-3 before applying
If your role requires an advanced degree or a bachelor's plus five years of progressive UX leadership experience, it may qualify as EB-2, which can shorten your path. Confirm the classification with your prospective employer before PERM filing begins.
Check prevailing wage before salary negotiations
DOL requires your offered salary to meet the prevailing wage for Lead UI/UX Designer under the correct SOC code in your work location. Use the OFLC Wage Search to verify the wage level before you finalize any offer, since PERM certification depends on it.
Understand priority dates if you're from India or China
Per-country annual limits under EB-2 and EB-3 create backlogs for nationals of high-demand countries. Check the USCIS Visa Bulletin monthly to track your priority date's movement and plan your timeline accordingly.
Clarify AC21 portability rights at the offer stage
Once your I-485 has been pending 180 days or more, AC21 lets you transfer your green card case to a new employer in the same or similar occupation. Confirm that any new employer's Lead UX role falls within the same O*NET occupational category before you switch.
Green Card Lead UI/UX Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
How does green card sponsorship for Lead UI/UX Designers differ from H-1B sponsorship?
Green card sponsorship leads to lawful permanent residency, not a temporary work status. For Lead UI/UX Designer roles, the employer must complete PERM labor certification with the Department of Labor, which includes a prevailing wage determination and a formal recruitment test to show no qualified U.S. workers were available. H-1B visa sponsorship skips PERM but grants only temporary status and must be renewed.
What PERM recruitment steps does an employer have to follow for a Lead UI/UX Designer role?
DOL requires the employer to run a mandatory recruitment test before filing PERM, which includes at least three additional recruitment steps beyond the standard job posting, such as advertising in a Sunday newspaper, posting on a professional association job board, or conducting on-campus recruiting. The employer must document that no minimally qualified U.S. worker applied and was rejected without lawful cause.
How do I find Lead UI/UX Designer jobs where the employer is already open to green card sponsorship?
Migrate Mate lists U.S. employers with verified employment-based sponsorship history for design and UX roles, so you can focus your search on companies that have sponsored workers before rather than cold-pitching sponsorship. Filtering by role and city lets you identify active sponsors in your target market quickly.
Does my Australian three-year design degree qualify me for EB-2 sponsorship?
EB-2 requires an advanced degree, which USCIS defines as a U.S. master's degree or its equivalent, or a U.S. bachelor's degree plus five years of progressive post-degree experience in the specialty. A three-year Australian bachelor's degree may be evaluated as equivalent to a U.S. bachelor's degree by a credential evaluation service, but it alone would not satisfy the EB-2 advanced-degree standard without the additional five years of progressive UX leadership experience.
Can I change employers after my Lead UI/UX Designer green card case is filed?
Once your I-485 adjustment of status application has been pending for 180 days or more and your I-140 has been approved, AC21 job portability lets you move to a new employer in the same or a similar occupation without restarting the green card process. Your new Lead UX or senior UX role must fall within the same O*NET occupational group as the original sponsored position.