Job Description
At Aztec Software, our mission is to better the world by educating, empowering, and elevating young adult and adult learners to succeed and achieve their dreams. Our award-winning SaaS product suite creates better futures by promoting financial wellness, skills remediation, workforce training, and more.
Get ready to lead and grow – you’ll be challenged to think bolder, move faster, and have a direct impact on the millions of learners we serve. Work within a flexible, remote schedule with an upbeat, talented team that is passionate about our mission!
Position Factors
- Title: Product (UX | UI) Designer
- Salary Range: $110,00 - $130,000
- Type: Remote
- Flexible Schedule: As a full-time salaried employee, you can schedule your working hours within any of the four U.S. time zones and anytime between 7:30AM - 6:30PM local time
- Travel : Light, occasional travel possible
- Required
- 5+ years of experience as a Product (UX | UI) Designer
- Extensive experience in “full stack product design” — including business requirement analysis, UX design research, usability testing, wireframing, high fidelity design, and writing detailed product specification documents for engineering
- Extensive experience in Figma and design system ownership and best practices
- Experience as a Product (UX | UI) Designer in designing for a B2B2C, SaaS product suite
- Desired
- BA or BS in related field, or equivalent professional experience supported by subject matter training
- Experience as a Product (UX | UI) Designer in designing for EdTech, FinTech, and wellness digital products
About You — And This Position
As a full-stack product designer, you own the entire feature design lifecycle—from understanding provided business requirements to UX research to design to supporting delivery to usability testing post-launch.
You’ll thrive in a distributed product culture, reporting to the CTO (within our shared services Engineering Team) while closely partnering with business-side product managers to translate business needs into great user experiences. To support your growth, you’ll receive mentorship and process training from a Fractional Head of Digital Product + UX Ops.
This high-ownership role requires exceptional emotional intelligence, communication, and a results-focused mindset. You’ll balance autonomy with collaboration, make smart trade-offs, and drive execution—all while maintaining a positive, solution-oriented approach.
- You’re a full-stack product designer who owns the entire feature design lifecycle
- Own the outcome – You drive feature design from concept to launch, ensuring features meet business, user, and technical needs.
- Balance vision and execution – You see the big picture but focus on details, making smart trade-offs to stay on track.
- Buy-in and improve processes: You’ll bring a positive attitude, embrace our processes and design ops, and help evolve them over time.
- You thrive as a self-starter within a cross-functional, distributed product culture
- Work independently, collaborate effectively – Be a self-starter on a lean and growing team, working independently while staying aligned
- Bridge business and engineering – Partner with business-side product managers to align priorities, advocate for UX, and work with engineers to deliver effectively
- Prioritize and deliver – Manage multiple initiatives, stay cool under pressure, and drive results.
- You lead with clarity, reliability, and emotional intelligence
- Communicate with impact – Present with clarity and conviction, align stakeholders, and rally teams to consensus.
- Build trust through reliability – Be detail-oriented, solution-focused, and always delivering.
- Balance results with emotional intelligence – Navigate challenges with diplomacy and clarity.
Core Responsibilities
- Analyze business and design requirements
- Conduct and present design research
- Analyze user and client data – Review personas, analytics, and usability insights
- Research and ideate – Analyze competitors and generate concepts through workshops, storyboards, and mapping.
- Define strategy – Translate research into user flows, feature lists, and interaction frameworks.
- Present findings – Advocate for your design strategy and align with stakeholders before design.
- Design new features, moving from wireframes to pixel perfect designs
- Create Lo-Fi wireframes – Draft quick wireframes and prototypes to test, iterate, and refine structure.
- Refine with Mid-Fi designs – Define layout and interactions, while aligning early and often with stakeholders and engineering.
- Finalize Hi-Fi designs – Deliver pixel-perfect, dev-ready designs that meet all requirements.
- Write functional specification documents and support feature delivery
- Own functional specs – Write and manage UI and interactive specs, coordinating with product, engineering, and content.
- Lead spec kickoff – Align with engineering pre-build to review specs and address questions.
- Support development – Assist engineers with QA, answer questions, and adjust for feasibility.
- Analyze post-launch – Review analytics and usability data to identify improvements.
- Contribute to design system and product design ops
- Manage the design system – Keep Figma updated, synced with code, and integrate new components.
- Follow and improve product ops – Adhere to processes, attend ops meetings, and give feedback.
Qualifications
- Required
- 5+ years of experience as a Product (UX | UI) Designer
- Extensive experience in “full stack product design” — including business requirement analysis, UX design research, usability testing, wireframing, high fidelity design, and writing detailed product specification documents for engineering
- Extensive experience in Figma and design system ownership and best practices
- Experience as a Product (UX | UI) Designer in designing for a B2B2C, SaaS product suite
- Desired
- BA or BS in related field, or equivalent professional experience supported by subject matter training
- Experience as a Product (UX | UI) Designer in designing for EdTech, FinTech, and wellness digital products
Job Tags
Full time, Local area, Remote job, Flexible hours,