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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