Senior UX Designer, Identity & Access Platform

AppFolio Inc; California; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio seeks a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management UX, including sign-in, permissions, and admin experiences across our platform. You’ll shape systems that touch many products, balancing security, usability, and scale.

Reporting to the Director of Platform UX, you will collaborate with product and engineering partners, advocate for data-informed decisions, and contribute to our design system while mentoring teammates.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in UX or product design.
• Experience designing security-sensitive, trust-critical areas (identity, authentication, authorization, SSO/OAuth, account management).
• Strong collaboration with product and engineering partners.
• Portfolio or work samples showing rigor in complex problem spaces.

Responsibilities

• Own the experience of identity and permissions across the platform, including login, passkeys, social sign-in, SSO, and MFA.
• Design internal tools and patterns used by other product teams on top of the identity platform.
• Collaborate with product and engineering to align work with business goals and user needs.
• Apply research and data to guide design decisions and justify calls.
• Contribute identity patterns to the design system and present work to stakeholders.

Skills

Systems thinking

Security-focused design

Cross-team collaboration

Mentoring

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

AppFolio seeks a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management UX, including sign-in, permissions, and admin experiences across our platform. You’ll shape systems that touch many products, balancing security, usability, and scale.

Reporting to the Director of Platform UX, you will collaborate with product and engineering partners, advocate for data-informed decisions, and contribute to our design system while mentoring teammates.