Senior Product Designer

Smart IMS Inc; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 80,000 - 166,000; Part time

Job summary

cyberThink in Austin, TX is seeking a Senior Product Designer to craft intuitive authoring experiences within Sanity Studio, partnering with marketers, product managers, and engineers to simplify workflows and guide UX decisions for new capabilities.

You will design flows, wireframes, and prototypes, translating complex content models into usable interfaces and helping scale the platform with governance and localization considerations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design or UX design experience, including 3+ years in content-first authoring.
• Experience with enterprise apps and content management systems.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work.
• Ability to translate complex requirements into scalable user experiences.
• Experience with Agile development and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design authoring experiences in Sanity Studio, including publishing workflows.
• Create flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Define authoring interaction patterns and design principles.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and design teams throughout the lifecycle.
• Translate client-facing patterns into usable authoring controls and previews.

Skills

Product Design

UX Design

Enterprise Applications

Content-first Authoring

Headless CMS

Agile

Stakeholder Management

Facilitation

Communication

Cross-functional Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Prototyping Tools

Job description

Job Title:

Senior Product Designer

Duration (Contract):

12 Months

Client Location:

Austin, TX

Location Preference:

Onsite

Job Description:

As a Senior Product Designer, you will play a critical role in designing intuitive, scalable authoring experiences within Sanity Studio. The designer will partner closely with marketers, content strategists, communication designers, product managers, architects, and engineers to simplify complex workflows, guide UX decisions for new capabilities, and continuously evolve the platform as business needs grow.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in content management systems, authoring workflows, and enterprise product design. They understand the end-to-end content lifecycle and can translate business processes, governance requirements, content models, and publishing workflows into clear, effective, and highly usable experiences that drive adoption and operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities: Product Design and User Experience:

• Drive the design of intuitive content authoring, editing, review, approval, and publishing experiences within Sanity Studio.
• Develop user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs that support product development and stakeholder alignment.
• Define authoring interaction patterns, UX standards, and design principles that enable scalable and consistent content operations.
• Balance business objectives, user needs, governance requirements, and technical constraints to deliver effective solutions.
• Partner with experience and design system teams to translate approved client-facing patterns and components into effective authoring controls, previews, guardrails, and workflows within Sanity Studio.

Content Authoring and Workflow Design:

• Partner with content strategists, marketers, UX designers, and platform teams to understand content creation, design system, and publishing requirements.
• Design authoring experiences that support content models, metadata, taxonomy, governance, localization, and content reuse.
• Streamline workflows to reduce manual effort, improve usability, and enable efficient content operations at scale.
• Establish scalable authoring patterns that support platform growth and evolving business needs.

Research and Validation:

• Conduct discovery activities to understand user needs, workflow challenges, and operational pain points.
• Leverage user feedback, analytics, research findings, and usability testing to inform design decisions.
• Validate concepts and prototypes with stakeholders and end users.
• Use qualitative and quantitative inputs to continuously improve platform usability and adoption.

Cross-Functional Collaboration:

• Partner closely with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Content Strategists, Engineers, Architects, and Design peers throughout the product lifecycle.
• Collaborate with development teams to ensure authoring interface designs are feasible, scalable, and aligned with platform capabilities.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align on requirements, workflows, and user experience decisions.
• Advocate for user-centered design and content first thinking while balancing delivery timelines and business priorities.

Required Skills, Experiences, Education and Competencies:

• 7+ years of Product Design, UX Design, Service Design, or related experience. 3+ years focused on experience with content-first authoring within headless CMS systems.
• Proven experience designing enterprise applications, workflow-based platforms, or content management solutions.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product design across complex business problems.
• Expertise in user-centered design methodologies, interaction design, information architecture, and usability principles.
• Ability to translate complex business requirements into intuitive and scalable user experiences.
• Strong systems-thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience working in Agile product development environments.

Required Experience:

• Experience designing for headless CMS such as Contentful or Sanity Studio, content authoring, publishing, workflow management, or digital experience platforms.
• Strong understanding of end-to-end content lifecycle management, governance, review, approval, and publishing processes.
• Experience simplifying complex operational workflows and business processes through thoughtful UX design.
• Demonstrated success partnering with marketing, content, product, UX design and engineering teams.
• Experience translating content models, design systems, governance requirements, and component architectures into intuitive authoring experiences.
• Experience establishing and evolving UX patterns, UI components, interaction models, and enterprise design standards.
• Skilled at balancing user needs, operational efficiency, platform scalability, and business objectives.
• Strong UX decision-making capabilities informed by research, analytics, and user feedback.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma and modern prototyping tools.
• Prior experience designing solutions within headless CMS e.g., Contentful or Sanity Studio.
• Familiarity with content operations, digital asset management, metadata, taxonomy, and structured content principles preferred.

The hourly range for roles of this nature are $40.00 to $80.00/hr. Rates are heavily dependent on skills, experience, location, and industry.

cyberThink is an Equal Opportunity Employer.