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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.
NOTICE ON HIRING SCAMS
UKG will never ask you for a copy of your driver’s license, social security card, or passport during a job interview.
ABOUT OUR JOB DESCRIPTIONS
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.
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.
NOTICE ON HIRING SCAMS
UKG will never ask you for a copy of your driver’s license, social security card, or passport during a job interview.
ABOUT OUR JOB DESCRIPTIONS
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 Senior UI Engineer
Document your frontend specialization before applying
PERM labor certification requires your employer to advertise for a role matching your exact duties. Prepare a detailed record of your UI architecture decisions, component library ownership, and performance optimization work so your credentials align precisely with the job description filed with DOL.
Verify the role qualifies under EB-2 or EB-3
EB-2 requires the position to demand an advanced degree or its equivalent. If the job description only requires a bachelor's degree, you'll likely file under EB-3 instead. Check the O*NET profile for Senior UI Engineer to confirm the education and experience requirements DOL expects.
Target employers with E-Verify enrollment and prior PERM history
Employers must be E-Verify enrolled to satisfy I-9 compliance throughout your green card process. Companies that have filed PERM applications before understand the recruitment documentation requirements and are far less likely to abandon sponsorship mid-process due to procedural unfamiliarity.
Search green card sponsorship roles using Migrate Mate
Filter by role and sponsorship type on Migrate Mate to surface Senior UI Engineer openings where employers are actively filing or have recent PERM history, saving you from applying to companies that list sponsorship as possible but rarely follow through.
Clarify prevailing wage level before accepting an offer
DOL assigns your position a wage level one through four based on complexity and supervision. Ask the employer which wage level they plan to use in the PERM filing, then cross-check it against the OFLC Wage Search for your job's SOC code and metro area before signing.
Negotiate your start date around PERM recruitment windows
The mandatory PERM recruitment period runs at least 30 days and cannot overlap your employment start date. If your employer hasn't begun advertising yet, build at least 60 to 90 days of buffer between your offer acceptance and your first day to avoid delays in the filing timeline.
Green Card Senior UI Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Senior UI Engineer role typically qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 green card sponsorship?
Most Senior UI Engineer positions qualify under EB-3 when the employer requires a bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field. If the role genuinely requires a master's degree or the equivalent in specialized experience, EB-2 may apply. The determining factor is how the employer defines minimum requirements in the PERM job description, not the candidate's actual credentials.
How does the PERM green card process differ from H-1B sponsorship for this role?
H-1B visa is a temporary work visa capped at 85,000 per year and subject to an annual lottery. PERM-based green card sponsorship has no annual cap at the petition level and leads to permanent residency rather than a renewable temporary status. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM labor certification, I-140 approval, and priority date movement can take three to five years or longer depending on your country of birth, while H-1B approval can happen within months.
What documentation should I prepare to support a Senior UI Engineer PERM application?
You'll need transcripts confirming your degree, an updated resume showing continuity of frontend engineering experience, and any certifications relevant to the role. If your degree is from outside the U.S., a credential evaluation from a NACES-member agency is standard. Your employer will also need performance reviews or reference letters to document that you meet the minimum requirements stated in the PERM job description.
How do I find Senior UI Engineer jobs where the employer is genuinely committed to green card sponsorship?
Use Migrate Mate to search Senior UI Engineer roles filtered by employment-based green card sponsorship. Many companies list sponsorship as available but have no internal process for PERM filings. Migrate Mate surfaces employers with verified sponsorship history so you can prioritize applications to companies that have demonstrated willingness to complete the full PERM and I-140 process.
Can I change employers after my I-140 is approved but before I receive my green card?
Yes. Under AC21 portability rules, once your I-140 has been approved and your adjustment of status application has been pending for at least 180 days, you can move to a new employer in the same or similar occupational classification without losing your priority date. Senior UI Engineer roles generally port cleanly to other frontend or software engineering positions, but confirm the new role qualifies before switching.