[Remote] Principal User Experience Designer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Deltek is the recognized global standard for project-based businesses, delivering software and information solutions to help organizations achieve their purpose. The Principal User Experience Designer will own the end-to-end UX direction for complex, AI-enabled enterprise systems and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to deliver high-quality designs.

Responsibilities

• As a Principal UX Designer you will own the end‑to‑end UX direction for complex, AI‑enabled enterprise systems, operating at the intersection of design systems, product strategy, research, and emerging AI workflows
• Working closely with product and engineering teams to understand and help define design scope, decompose and strategize work and to deliver high quality designs to customers
• The role is accountable not just for screens, but for how products are structured, scaled, validated, and evolved
• Define and evolve information architecture, navigation models, and application shells for complex, data‑dense enterprise products
• Establish durable UX foundations that engineering can build on while supporting future change
• Own, define and drive the UX strategy for a feature or products based on solid Design Thinking and rationale
• Design AI experiences that are embedded, contextual, and workflow driven, not just simple addon experiences like chat
• Define and apply established guardrails (explainability, progressive disclosure, human-in-the-loop), leveraging company standards and user-centered design principals to concrete product designs
• Experienced using modern AI coding tools to build working, high-fidelity prototypes
• Translate ideas into executable UX and support engineers directly, rather than static mock-ups which require re-implementation
• Able to apply and contribute enhancements to design systems
• Working with owners to maintain the cross-product design system, setting standards for component and patterns, source of truth governance, and integration with modern build & AI tools
• Ensure consistency between design intent and implemented UI
• Lead or deeply engage in user research, competitive analysis, and validation
• Synthesize large, complex inputs into clear UX direction that product and engineering can act on
• Work as a peer partner in teams including Product Management, Engineering, and User Experience
• Participate in AI‑assisted software development lifecycles where UX is part of generation, verification, and outcome measurement
• Enable other designers and teams through documentation, examples, training, and working artifacts
• Confidently represent UX in leadership and executive contexts

Skills

• 5-10 years of professional UX/product design experience, with at least 5 years in enterprise software contexts
• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise‑scale, complex systems (ERP, platforms, or similarly complex domains)
• Experience leading the design process, acting as the driver and owner for work planning and organization, strategic design approach via work decomposition and planning and stakeholder management
• Proven ability to operate across strategy, architecture, research, and execution
• Hands‑on comfort with modern prototyping and AI‑assisted workflows
• Strong systems thinking; able to reason about scale, consistency, and evolution
• Trusted partner to senior product and engineering leaders

Benefits

• Employees have access to healthcare benefits
• A 401(k) plan and company match
• Paid vacation time and holidays
• Well-living programs
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Basic life insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including incentive compensation and equity

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