Senior UX Designer - Content Authoring & CMS Studio

Cella; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 103,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Cella, a Randstad digital company, is seeking an experienced UX/Product Designer to shape scalable authoring experiences in Sanity Studio for our MarTech Planning and Enablement Team. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, enterprise content workflows, and strong design systems alignment.

You will craft flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs, translating business needs into usable, scalable solutions while partnering with content strategists, engineers, and product managers to

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

UX Design

Product Design

Enterprise UI

Headless CMS

Content Authoring

User Research

Job description

Cella, a Randstad digital company, is seeking an experienced UX/Product Designer to shape scalable authoring experiences in Sanity Studio for our MarTech Planning and Enablement Team. The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, enterprise content workflows, and strong design systems alignment.

You will craft flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs, translating business needs into usable, scalable solutions while partnering with content strategists, engineers, and product managers to