Senior Product Designer: CMS Authoring Interface

Spectraforce Technologies; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Spectraforce Technologies seeks a Senior Product Designer in Austin to lead the authoring interface design within a headless CMS (Sanity Studio preferred). The role focuses on complex enterprise workflows, content authoring and publishing, and collaboration with marketing and engineering teams.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in product/UX design, strong Figma skills, and a proven track record designing authoring experiences for CMS platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong Product Design experience and capability to design CMS authoring interfaces.
• Experience with headless CMS platforms (Sanity Studio preferred; Contentful acceptable).
• Experience in content authoring, publishing, and content operations.
• Understanding of end-to-end content lifecycle and governance.
• Ability to design complex enterprise workflows and products.
• Proficiency with Figma and rapid prototyping.

Responsibilities

• Drive design of intuitive authoring experiences within Sanity Studio.
• Develop user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high‑fidelity designs.
• Define authoring interaction patterns, UX standards, and design principles.
• Balance business goals with governance and technical constraints.
• Collaborate with product, engineers, and design systems teams to implement authoring controls.
• Design experiences supporting content models, metadata, taxonomy, localization, and reuse.

Skills

Product design

CMS authoring interfaces

Headless CMS

Content authoring/publishing

Content lifecycle

Enterprise workflows

Figma/prototyping

Autonomy/initiative

Ambiguity handling

Tools

Sanity Studio

Contentful

Job description

Spectraforce Technologies seeks a Senior Product Designer in Austin to lead the authoring interface design within a headless CMS (Sanity Studio preferred). The role focuses on complex enterprise workflows, content authoring and publishing, and collaboration with marketing and engineering teams.

The ideal candidate has 7+ years in product/UX design, strong Figma skills, and a proven track record designing authoring experiences for CMS platforms.