Senior Designer

Aderant; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Aderant is seeking a Senior UX Designer to shape intelligent experiences for Stridyn, spanning desktop and mobile, collaborating with product and engineering to deliver impactful design.

You’ll leverage user research and analytics to inform decisions, evolve our design practice, and contribute to design systems and DesignOps initiatives across a dynamic, global team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of user experience / product design work.
• Fluency with AI-native design workflows and enterprise product design.
• Strong prototyping and iterative design skills.
• Outcomes-over-output mindset with early validation.
• Experience creating wireframes and interactive prototypes.
• Ability to document decisions and justify design choices.
• Working knowledge of Figma and related tools.
• Attention to detail and ability to produce polished deliverables.
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Work in a cross-functional pod — designer, PM, and engineers to prototype in 1–2 weeks.
• Partner with PM through Research & Discovery to scope problems and conceptualize early.
• Do upstream thinking in Cowork — framing and edge-case mapping, then distill into strategic summaries.
• Design every state: empty, loading, error, partial data, edge cases.
• Iterate through validation — incorporate client feedback and engineer readiness.
• Produce the validated Claude Design prototype as the primary handoff artefact with rationale.
• Build with components and tokens from the design system and contribute to DesignOps.
• Conceptually design information architecture and UX flows for complex data structures.
• Stay engaged beyond handoff — support engineering through build and QA.
• Articulate decisions clearly to cross-functional partners and track work in tools.
• Be present for meetings across teams and time zones.

Skills

AI-native design

Enterprise product design

Prototyping

Outcomes mindset

Wireframes

Design documentation

Figma

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Tools

Material UI / Bootstrap

HTML / CSS / React / Angular / JS

DesignOps / design systems

Job description

Aderant is a global industry leading software company providing comprehensive business management solutions for law firms and other professional services organizations with a mission to help them run a better business. We are motivated by a collective desire to drive the legal industry to the forefront of innovation. With over 2,500 clients around the world, including 95 of the top AmLaw 100 firms, we are changing the outside perception of the legal sphere; where there was once resistance to modernization, we are creating a culture that embraces new ideas and technology.

At Aderant, the “A” is more than just a letter. It is a representation of how we fulfill our foundational purpose, serving our clients. It embodies our core values and reminds us that to achieve success, every day must start with the “A”. We bring the “A” to life by fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and personal growth. We encourage our diverse teams to bring their whole selves to work – ideas, experience, and passion – to drive our mission forward.

Our people are our strength.

As a Senior UX Designer,you’llbe a key member of our design team, crafting intelligent user experiences and information architecture forStridyn, our legal and financial platform, across both desktop and mobile.You’llpair a strong eye for design with the technical fluency to bring ideas to life quickly — collaborating with product and engineering to shape,validate, and deliver work that holds up.You’lldraw on user research and product analytics to make informed decisions that improve the quality, value, and experience of everything we ship.

Design at Aderant is a living practice, andit’sevolving fast.We’veshifted from measuring activity to measuring impact — from outputs to outcomes, and from manual execution to AI-amplified thinking.We’relooking for designers who are excited to work this way, who think critically and love solving problems, who seek clarity before solutions, and who want to help sharpen the practice as we go.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of a cross-functional pod — designer, PM, and engineers moving from problem tovalidatedprototype in a focused 1–2 weeksprint

• Partner with the PM through Research & Discovery to understand and scope the problem, and start conceptualizing in Claude Design early rather than waiting for a handoff

• Do the upstream thinking inCowork— problem framing, flow logic, and edge-case mapping — and distil it into a clear strategic summary that drives the making

• Design every state, not just the happy path: empty, loading, error, partial data, and edge cases

• Iterate together through validation — stress-testing flows, folding in the client feedback the PM gathers, and preparing work for engineering

• Produce the validated Claude Design prototype as the primary handoff artefact, backed by clear supporting documentation and design rationale

• Build with components and tokens from our design system, and help extend the team’s practice — contributing to skills, agents, quality gates, andDesignOps

• Conceptually design information architecture and UX flows for complex data structures, supporting paradigms like search, navigation, and actionable business functionality

• Stay engaged beyond handoff — supporting engineering through build and QA so the experience ships as intended

• Articulate your decisions clearly to cross-functional partners, keep your reasoning visible, and track work in the team’s tools (e.g., Aha, Azure DevOps)

• Be present for the meetings that matter, internally and across teams in different time zones

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years of user experience / product design work

• Fluency with — or clear excitement about — AI-native design workflows; you use AI as a core part of how you think, make, and review, not as a novelty

• Product design experience in enterprise, cloud-based applications

• Strong prototyping skills — you treat prototypes as tools for thinking and can move fast in a collaborative, pod-style environment

• An outcomes-over-output mindset; comfortable validating early and iterating in the open

• Experience developing wireframes and interactive prototypes

• Experience documenting and annotating design work, and effectively articulating design decisions

• Working knowledge of Figma (Auto Layout,componentdesign,FigJam) — used here as a canvas and for existing IP

• Attention to detail and care for producing polished deliverables

• Exceptional written, verbal, and presentation skills

Assets

• Experience with Material UI and/or Bootstrap

• Familiarity with HTML/CSS, React, Angular, JavaScript, or similar

• A track recordof building or improvingDesignOpstooling, design systems, or team workflows