Lead UX Designer

Salary: $210,000 - 250,000 per year Requirements: Were seeking a bachelors degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Cognitive Psychology, Computer Science, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience. Were looking for at least 5 years of professional experience in digital product design. We require experience producing design deliverables, including visual and interaction design, prototyping, copywriting, and design specifications. Were looking for experience planning, facilitating, analyzing, and presenting qualitative and quantitative user research. We require experience working in an agile software development environment. We value strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority. We prefer experience incorporating AI tools into a design workflow. We prefer experience designing complex enterprise, healthcare, or workflow-heavy products. Were looking for someone who can navigate ambiguity, assess tradeoffs, and make timely decisions to keep work moving forward. Responsibilities: We rely on this role to lead discovery and frame user-centered problems across complex product areas. Youll facilitate visioning sessions and turn ideas into sketches, flows, wireframes, and prototypes. Youll conduct and synthesize user research, heuristic reviews, and client feedback to guide design decisions. Youll partner with product and engineering through agile planning, development, and release cycles to carry design intent into implementation. Youll develop interaction models and workflows that simplify complex user, system, and data relationships. Youll present design concepts, recommendations, and tradeoffs to product, clinical, and engineering stakeholders. Youll mentor junior designers through reviews, feedback, and day-to-day collaboration. Youll support team design practices and process improvements that strengthen consistency and quality. Youll use AI tools to accelerate design exploration, prototyping, and refinement, applying judgment to select, adapt, and validate outputs before sharing them. Youll contribute to design system adoption and consistency across product experiences. Youll support cross-functional planning by clarifying scope, risks, and design dependencies. Youll collaborate on documentation that explains design rationale and implementation guidance. Youll participate in team critiques and shared learning, identify opportunities to improve workflows, tools, and team practices, and support onboarding and knowledge sharing. Youll adapt to changing priorities and contribute to adjacent work as needed. Technologies: AI Support UX UI Design Spark More: Hackajob is collaborating with us at athenahealth to connect us with professionals for this role. We build EHR and practice management products, and our team designs experiences for healthcare organizations core clinical and operational workflows. Working with product, engineering, clinical, and research partners, we focus on usability, consistency, and practical value across a complex product landscape. This role reports to our UI & UX Design Manager and requires travel of 20% annually. Our vision is to simplify healthcare through IT solutions and expert services that help providers focus on patients, supporting accessible, high-quality, sustainable care. Our diverse, mission-driven culture is grounded in inclusiveness, accountability, and support, with a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Depending on eligibility, our Total Rewards package includes health and financial benefits, possible annual bonuses, variable compensation and equity plans, as well as location-specific perks such as commuter support, employee assistance and tuition assistance, employee resource groups, and collaborative workspaces. We support flexibility and work-life balance, and offer learning and community events including book clubs, guest speakers, and hackathons. last updated 41 week of 2026