Senior Product Designer: Content Authoring in CMS

Skill; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

subsidized health plans

Vision plans

Dental plans

Paid sick leave

Retirement plans with match

Free online training

Job summary

Aquent Talent collaborates with a leading financial services institution to redefine how content is authored, managed, and published within Sanity Studio. You will shape authoring experiences, establish scalable UX patterns, and guide design system adoption across product teams.

You will drive end-to-end design work from discovery through prototyping to validation, partnering with product, engineers, and content strategists to deliver scalable, delightful content workflows and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Product Design, UX Design, Service Design, or related fields, with at least 3 years focused on content-first authoring within headless CMS systems.
• Experience designing enterprise applications and workflow platforms that simplify complex processes.
• Expertise in user-centered design, information architecture, and usability.
• Ability to translate business requirements and design systems into scalable authoring experiences.
• Strong understanding of content lifecycle management and publishing workflows.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma and modern prototyping tools.

Responsibilities

• Drive 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 for product development.
• Define authoring interaction patterns, UX standards, and design principles for scalable content operations.
• Balance business objectives with user needs, governance, and technical constraints.
• Partner with experience and design system teams to translate patterns into authoring controls and workflows.
• Collaborate with content strategists, marketers, UX designers, and platform teams to align on requirements.
• Design authoring experiences for content models, metadata, taxonomy, governance, localization, and reuse.
• Streamline workflows to reduce manual effort and improve usability at scale.
• Establish scalable authoring patterns to support platform growth.
• Conduct discovery to understand user needs and pain points.
• Leverage feedback, analytics, and usability testing to inform decisions.
• Validate concepts with stakeholders and end users.
• Work with Product Managers, Engineers, and Design peers throughout the lifecycle.
• Facilitate workshops to align on requirements and workflows.
• Advocate for user-centered design and content-first thinking while balancing delivery timelines.

Skills

Product Design

UX Design

Content-first authoring

Headless CMS

Figma

Prototyping

Stakeholder management

Tools

Sanity Studio

Contentful

Job description

Aquent Talent collaborates with a leading financial services institution to redefine how content is authored, managed, and published within Sanity Studio. You will shape authoring experiences, establish scalable UX patterns, and guide design system adoption across product teams.

You will drive end-to-end design work from discovery through prototyping to validation, partnering with product, engineers, and content strategists to deliver scalable, delightful content workflows and