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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 H-1B Visa Sponsorship as a Lead UI/UX Designer
Frame your portfolio around specialty occupation evidence
Your portfolio needs to demonstrate degree-level design work, not just visual output. Show research methodologies, systems thinking, and cross-functional leadership that signal to USCIS the role requires a bachelor's in a specific related field, not generalist skills.
Look up prevailing wages before negotiating offers
Use the OFLC Wage Search to find the certified wage level for your SOC code and work location before accepting an offer. Your employer's LCA must meet or exceed the prevailing wage, so knowing Level III or IV rates in advance protects you in salary discussions.
Target employers with active LCA filing history on Migrate Mate
Search Migrate Mate to identify employers who have already certified LCAs for UI/UX design roles. This tells you which companies have navigated the sponsorship process for your occupation before, reducing your risk of a first-time sponsor stalling your petition.
Verify your SOC code matches the actual role
Employers sometimes file LCAs under a mismatched SOC code, which can trigger USCIS scrutiny. Cross-check the job duties against the O*NET profile for Web and Digital Interface Designers or Art Directors to confirm the classification before your employer submits the LCA.
Confirm a separate LCA for each physical worksite
If your role involves working at a client site, a secondary office, or a hybrid arrangement across cities, your employer must file a separate certified LCA for each location. Raise this explicitly during the offer stage so the filing timeline accounts for all worksites.
File a change of employer petition before your start date
If you're switching companies while already on H-1B visa status, your new employer must file an I-129 petition with USCIS before you begin work. Portability rules allow you to start once the petition is filed and 180 days have passed on your current approved petition.
H-1B Visa Lead UI/UX Designer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does a Lead UI/UX Designer role qualify as an H-1B specialty occupation?
Yes. Lead UI/UX Designer roles typically qualify as a specialty occupation because the position requires a bachelor's degree or higher in a directly related field such as interaction design, human-computer interaction, graphic design, or computer science. The lead-level scope of the role, including overseeing design systems, conducting user research, and directing cross-functional teams, reinforces the degree-level requirement USCIS looks for.
What documents should I gather before a Lead UI/UX Designer employer starts the H-1B petition?
You'll need your original degree transcripts and diploma, any credential evaluations if your degree is from outside the U.S., a detailed offer letter specifying your title and duties, and your current immigration status documents including your I-94 and any prior visa approvals. If your degree is in a related but not identical field, a credential evaluation or expert opinion letter strengthens the specialty occupation argument.
How do I find Lead UI/UX Designer employers who actively sponsor H-1B visas?
Migrate Mate lists employers with verified H-1B LCA filing history for design roles, so you can focus your applications on companies that have already committed to sponsoring this occupation. Filtering by role and location helps you identify hiring managers at studios, tech companies, and agencies that have completed the DOL certification process before.
How long does H-1B status last for a Lead UI/UX Designer role?
USCIS grants initial H-1B status for up to three years, extendable to a six-year maximum. Beyond six years, continued stay requires an approved immigrant petition or a qualifying PERM labor certification filed with DOL. Extensions beyond six years are possible but depend on the stage of your employer-sponsored green card process.
What happens to my H-1B status if I change employers or move to a different design role?
Changing employers requires your new employer to file a fresh I-129 petition with USCIS before you begin work at the new company. If you've held H-1B status for at least 180 days under an approved petition, portability rules allow you to start the new role once the petition is filed, without waiting for USCIS approval. Each new worksite also requires a separate certified LCA.