Senior UX Designer

<p>At Expel, we craft experiences that clarify understanding, improve decision-making, and help people work better. UX isn't an afterthought—it's a critical differentiator with champions at the highest levels. No politics, no BS. Just a team of thoughtful, dedicated professionals who want the best experience for our customers.</p> <p>Want to join our team? We're looking for a user experience designer with strong interaction skills and a curiosity for technically complex domains.</p> <p>If you're the kind of designer who loves spending time with users, user analytics, knows how to get creative with experiments, and can turn a complicated problem into a simple workflow, we want to hear from you!</p> <hr> <h2><strong>What Expel can do for you</strong></h2> <p>Many companies promise UX a seat at the table, but Expel delivers. Our designers take a lead role in discovery, research, and feature definition and are deeply involved during development, rollout, and adoption.</p> <h3>We'll also:</h3> <ul> <li>Nurture your talent with a humane, collaborative team culture and a manager who's got your back. We're serious about inclusion, diversity, and fostering a workplace where you can be yourself and speak your mind without fear.</li> <li>Put you on a defined promotion path, as a people manager or technical leader.</li> <li>Support your professional development with a generous yearly conference and training budget.</li> <li>Give regular feedback on your performance via weekly 1:1s, 6 month performance reviews, and formal and informal critique sessions with the UX team.</li> <li>Provide regular opportunities to talk directly with customers and do high-quality research.</li> <li>Back up your design vision with a group of fast, collaborative developers eager to experiment with you.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>What you can do for Expel</strong></h2> <p>In this role, you'll improve our core product, Workbench. This product enables our analysts to make decisions quickly and share those decisions with our customers.</p> <p>This means you'll:</p> <ul> <li>Conduct user and market research to understand the personas, use cases, and jobs to be done.</li> <li>Synthesise research insights and present findings to team members and leadership.</li> <li>Work closely with engineers so you grasp the technical constraints and opportunities for creative experimentation.</li> <li>Design lean experiments to test hypotheses, measure outcomes, and iterate rapidly.</li> <li>Think big picture, guide product vision with other collaborators</li> <li>Collaborate with partners in product management, engineering, UX, and our Secure Operations leadership to guarantee we're taking on the right problems with the best solutions to scale the product.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>What you should bring with you</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Strong UX design practice, particularly in research, prototyping, interaction design, design systems, and workshop facilitation.</li> <li>Curiosity and willingness to dive into the technical details with engineers, when needed.</li> <li>Experience designing workflows and communicating information to users to make informed decisions.</li> <li>Effective low-fi sketching and prototyping as a means to get feedback and iterate quickly—and the willingness to throw it all out and try again.</li> <li>Clear articulation of the design problem, the tradeoffs you've made in your solution, and the impact of different approaches.</li> <li>A high degree of comfort making decisions without all the information, and learning from the inevitable wrong turns.</li> <li>Strong communication skills that ensure product partners are in the loop, understand project direction, know what's coming up next and one year down the road.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>Education and experience</strong></h2> <ul> <li>Minimum 4 years' experience on a cross-functional product team where you collaborated with product managers and engineers.</li> <li>Experience in cybersecurity domain is preferred, but not required.</li> <li>Experience with SaaS, e-commerce, productivity software, or industrial applications helps.</li> <li>Facility using one of the popular UX design tools, Figma, Adobe XD (we use Figma, FWIW)</li> <li>Experimenting and adopting AI in your workflow.</li> <li>Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.</li> </ul> <hr> <h2><strong>Additional notes</strong></h2> <p><strong>Additional notes</strong></p> <p>The base salary range for this role is between €77,600.00 - €112,500.00 + bonus eligibility and equity.</p> <p>This is a remote position on a fully remote team within Ireland.</p> <p>Our headquarters is in Herndon, Virginia (about 30 minutes drive from the US Capitol in Washington D.C.). While our HQ is in the U.S., we are a global company! Most of our team works remotely on a day-to-day basis, and we support collaboration through a variety of online tools designed for remote teamwork.</p> <p>We come together as a team in Dublin when it makes sense to collaborate in-person, usually once per month. We also hold team touchdowns in Dublin three-to-four times per year, with guests from other Expel locations and team activities.</p> <p>#LI-Remote</p><div class="content-pay-transparency"><div class="pay-input"><div class="title">Salary Range</div><div class="pay-range"><span>€77.600</span><span class="divider">&mdash;</span><span>€112.500 EUR</span></div></div></div>