Principal, Application Development - UI/UX Designer

L3Harris Technologies, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 133,000 - 247,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and disability insurance

401(k) match

Flexible spending accounts

EAP

Education assistance

Parental leave

Paid time off

Company-paid holidays

Job summary

L3Harris Technologies seeks a senior UX leader to steer enterprise UX strategy for Palantir Foundry initiatives in the United States. You will guide discovery, workflow analysis, wireframing, prototyping, and usability evaluation to optimize user experiences across digital ecosystems.

You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders, influence senior leadership on UX governance, and champion scalable design patterns.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, HCI, or related field with 12+ years of experience.
• Graduate Degree with 10+ years of experience in UX.
• 16 years of experience in lieu of a degree.

Responsibilities

• Drive UX strategy and design execution for Palantir Foundry initiatives from discovery to wireframing and prototyping.
• Collaborate with engineers, architects, and stakeholders to translate needs into intuitive experiences.
• Shape cross-functional alignment by promoting UX practices and user-centered methods.
• Define reusable patterns and design systems to improve consistency, usability, and scalability.
• Analyze workflows and journeys to identify pain points and suggest measurable improvements.
• Design interfaces that simplify complex data and decisions for end users.
• Create user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and specs.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to validate designs and support adoption.
• Partner with development teams to ensure design intent is implemented correctly.

Skills

UX strategy

UI/UX design

Stakeholder management

User research

Design systems

Education

Bachelor’s degree in UX Design or related field

Graduate degree in related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

Lead enterprise UX strategy and UI/UX design for Palantir Foundry initiatives while advising stakeholders across digital ecosystems.

Responsibilities

• Drive UX strategy and design execution for Palantir Foundry initiatives, from discovery and workflow analysis to wireframing, prototyping, usability evaluation, and experience optimization.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, engineers, and program teams to translate business and operational needs into intuitive, effective user experiences.
• Shape cross-functional alignment by influencing senior stakeholders to adopt UX practices, shared standards, and user-centered methods.
• Define and champion reusable patterns, interaction models, and design approaches to improve consistency, usability, and scalability across applications.
• Analyze workflows, interfaces, and user journeys to identify pain points and recommend improvements with measurable impact.
• Design interfaces that make complex data, decisions, and processes easier to understand and act on.
• Create deliverables including user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and design specifications.
• Conduct and apply user research, usability testing, and feedback analysis to validate designs and support adoption.
• Partner with development teams to ensure design intent is implemented effectively and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Present UX strategies, concepts, and recommendations clearly to stakeholders, senior leaders, and customers.
• Mentor team members and partners on UX methods, standards, accessibility, and best practices.
• Travel requirement: approximately 10–20%; may increase periodically for implementation activity, stakeholder workshops, onsite user research, or enterprise deployments.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, Computer Science, Information Systems, Psychology, or a related field plus minimum 12 years of prior related experience; or
• Graduate Degree plus minimum 10 years of prior related experience; or
• In lieu of a degree: minimum 16 years of prior related experience.
• Minimum experience level: 10+ years.

Preferred Additional Skills

• Extensive experience leading UX for complex enterprise applications, internal tools, dashboards, workflows, or other sophisticated digital products.
• Demonstrated experience serving as a senior or expert UX practitioner on large, complex, or strategically important initiatives.
• Proven ability to translate complex user needs, business requirements, and operational workflows into scalable design strategies and production-ready solutions.
• Experience influencing shared design standards, reusable patterns, design systems, or UX governance across multiple teams or applications.
• Ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and senior leaders across business and technical domains.
• Strong knowledge of interaction design, information architecture, accessibility, usability, and enterprise UX best practices.
• Experience conducting and applying user research, usability testing, and feedback analysis to inform design decisions.
• Proficiency with modern design and prototyping tools such as Figma (or similar).
• Strong communication, facilitation, documentation, and presentation skills.
• Ability to work independently, manage multiple complex priorities, and deliver high-quality results with broad organizational impact.
• Experience with Palantir Foundry.
• Experience designing data-intensive applications, dashboards, analytics workflows, or decision-support tools.
• Experience contributing to enterprise design systems or shared UX standards across multiple applications or organizations.
• Experience working in Agile or other iterative delivery environments.
• Familiarity with front-end development concepts, technical constraints, and design handoff best practices.
• Experience using analytics, user feedback, or adoption metrics to inform UX strategy and design improvements.

Technologies

• Figma

Benefits

• Health and disability insurance
• 401(k) match
• Flexible spending accounts
• EAP
• Education assistance
• Parental leave
• Paid time off
• Company-paid holidays

Job Location

• Melbourne, FL
• United States (remote)
• Remote opportunity

Job Schedule

• 9/80: Employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours worked, and have every other Friday off

Compensation

• USD 133,000 - 247,000 per year
• Remote role salary ranges by location (final offer may vary):
• $153,000 - $284,000: California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Washington, and the Greater D.C., Denver, or NYC areas
• $133,000 - $247,000: Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, New York State, Cleveland, Ohio, Vermont, and Virginia
• Not a guarantee of compensation; final offer may vary based on experience and geographic location

Security Clearance

• Many positions require the ability to obtain a security clearance
• Security clearances may be granted only to U.S. citizens
• Conditional offers may be subject to government security investigations and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information

E-Verify

• L3Harris Technologies is an E-Verify Employer