Senior Product UX Designer

Lever, Inc.; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AppZen is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape user experiences from planning to delivery. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and Fortune 500 clients to design workflows that set new industry standards for financial processes.

The role focuses on end-to-end product design, AI-powered workflows, and contributing to a scalable design system, with four days per week in the San Jose office. Your portfolio should demonstrate strong UX across complex enterprise domains.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in product design.
• Portfolio showcasing strong design and UX.
• Experience with B2B/fintech products.
• Strong prototyping across fidelities; functional or coded prototypes welcome.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system.
• Hands-on user research planning and translating insights into direction.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams in startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end experience for core products from planning to launch.
• Design AI-powered workflows with explainability and error handling.
• Ensure tasks are easy to use and related projects connect well.
• Raise craft through critiques and shape long-term product vision.
• Contribute to a design system with tokens and clear specs.
• Use AI tools to research, prototype, and test ideas with real data.

Skills

Product design

B2B fintech

Prototyping

Design systems

User research

Cross-functional

Job description

AppZen is the leader in autonomous spend-to-pay software. Its patented artificial intelligence accurately and efficiently processes information from thousands of data sources so that organizations can better understand enterprise spend at scale to make smarter business decisions. It seamlessly integrates with existing accounts payable, expense, and card workflows to read, understand, and make real-time decisions based on your unique spend profile, leading to faster processing times and fewer instances of fraud or wasteful spend. Global enterprises, including one-third of the Fortune 500, use AppZen’s invoice, expense, and card transaction solutions to replace manual finance processes and accelerate the speed and agility of their businesses.

At AppZen, we value candidates who are actively using AI tools to enhance productivity, automate repetitive tasks, and solve problems more efficiently. Across all roles, we are looking for team members who leverage AI in meaningful ways to drive impact in their work.

To learn more, visit us at www.appzen.com.

As a Senior Product Designer at AppZen, you'll shape the user experience for our products from planning to delivery. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams and Fortune 500 clients to design workflows and interactions that set new industry standards. This role offers a unique chance to create innovative solutions that have never been seen before in the industry, helping to shape the future of how companies manage their financial processes.

This role is expected to commute to the San Jose office four days a week on Mondays through Thursdays.

Responsibilities:

• Own the end-to-end experience for core products, from planning to launch, partnering with the Principal Designer, Product, and Engineering to find the right problems to solve
• Design AI-powered and agentic workflows that finance teams can understand and trust, including explainability, confidence signals, human-in-the-loop review, and graceful handling of model errors
• Pay close attention to design details, make complex tasks easy to use, and connect related projects effectively
• Raise the craft bar through design crits and mentorship, and help shape the team's long-term product vision and processes
• Contribute to a design system built for both designers and AI-assisted development, including tokens, component documentation, and clear specs
• Use AI tools throughout the design process, from research synthesis to functional prototypes, to move faster and test ideas with real data

Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience
• A portfolio showcasing strong design skills and well-crafted user experiences
• Experience designing for B2B and/or fintech products
• Strong prototyping skills across fidelities, including functional or coded prototypes
• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
• Hands‑on experience planning and running user research, and turning insights into product direction
• Experience working in complex and ambiguous problem spaces
• Experience working with cross‑functional teams in startup environments
• Excellent communication, presentation, organizational, and analytical skills

Nice to Have:

• Experience with enterprise finance workflows (AP, expense, audit, compliance
• Familiarity with front-end development

$180,000 - $190,000 a year

AppZen is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The base pay range for this role is posted above. Actual compensation packages are based on several factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, depth of experience, certifications, and specific work location. This may differ in other locations due to cost-of-labor differences.The total compensation package may also include annual performance bonus, equity, benefits, and/or other applicable incentive compensation plans.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need.

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