Senior UX Designer - Identity & Access Platform

AppFolio, Inc.; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management across its platform, including sign-in, authentication flows, and the admin experience for roles and permissions. Platform design work is a different kind of craft: your job is the identity and permissions foundation other product teams build on, work that makes their user experiences possible in the first place.

Your impact includes designing internal tools and patterns for identity, owning end-to-end authentication

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design internal tools, documentation, and patterns for identity and permissions platform.
• Own end-to-end design of authentication and account permissions experiences (login, passkeys, social sign-in, SSO, MFA).
• Collaborate with product and engineering to align work with business goals and dependencies.
• Apply research and data to guide design decisions.
• Contribute to and reuse patterns in the design system.
• Present work to stakeholders with polish.
• Mentor teammates and share knowledge.

Skills

UX design

Systems thinking

Security design

Cross-functional collaboration

Claude Code / AI prototyping

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management across its platform, including sign-in, authentication flows, and the admin experience for roles and permissions. Platform design work is a different kind of craft: your job is the identity and permissions foundation other product teams build on, work that makes their user experiences possible in the first place.

Your impact includes designing internal tools and patterns for identity, owning end-to-end authentication