Senior UX Designer - Identity & Access Platform

Appfolio; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Senior UX Designer to own the identity and access management experience across its platform, including sign-in, authentication flows, and admin access controls. You’ll partner with product and engineering to shape the foundations others build on, with a focus on systems thinking, security, and scalable design.

You’ll work across teams to align dependencies, apply research to decisions, and contribute patterns back to our design system.

Qualifications

• Security-sensitive, trust-critical design experience.
• Strong systems thinking under security and architecture constraints.
• Experience designing identity, access, and authorization.
• Ability to handle multiple workstreams with limited oversight.
• Translating complex constraints into simple, trustworthy experiences.
• Experience prototyping with AI tools in design processes.

Responsibilities

• Design the internal tools, documentation, and patterns other product teams rely on when they build on top of our identity and permissions platform, making that experience as considered as anything customer-facing.
• Own the end-to-end design of authentication and account permissions experiences, including login, passkeys, social sign-in, SSO, and multi-factor authentication.
• Work across product development teams to resolve dependencies and align work to serve both users and business goals, building confidence in a direction with your product and engineering partners before acting.
• Apply a strong foundation in research and data to guide design decisions, knowing when to gather more evidence versus when to make a call.
• Work fluently within our design system and contribute identity and permissions patterns back to it.
• Present your work with polish and confidence, tailoring your message to the audience, from your immediate team to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Mentor and share knowledge with teammates as a trusted, go-to resource.

Skills

UX design experience

Security-focused design

Systems thinking

Collaboration with engineering

AI-driven design

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Senior UX Designer to own the identity and access management experience across its platform, including sign-in, authentication flows, and admin access controls. You’ll partner with product and engineering to shape the foundations others build on, with a focus on systems thinking, security, and scalable design.

You’ll work across teams to align dependencies, apply research to decisions, and contribute patterns back to our design system.