Senior UX Designer, Identity & Access Platform

AppFolio; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio is seeking a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management experiences across our platform. You will shape sign-in, authentication flows, and how customers manage user roles, building foundational design that other teams rely on.

You'll apply systems thinking, work with security constraints, and contribute to our design system. This role reports to the Director of Platform UX and offers influence across multiple product teams in a collaborative, AI-aware environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in UX or product design
• Experience designing for security-sensitive, trust-critical, or infrastructure-level product areas (identity, authentication, account management, or similar)
• Strong collaboration 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
• Own end-to-end design of authentication and account permissions experiences
• Collaborate across product teams to align work with business goals
• Apply research and data to guide design decisions
• Understand and contribute to the design system at depth
• Present work confidently to teams and stakeholders
• Mentor teammates as a trusted resource

Skills

Systems thinking

Internal-facing tools design

Collaboration with product & eng

Portfolio/work samples

AI-assisted design approaches

Job description

AppFolio is seeking a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management experiences across our platform. You will shape sign-in, authentication flows, and how customers manage user roles, building foundational design that other teams rely on.

You'll apply systems thinking, work with security constraints, and contribute to our design system. This role reports to the Director of Platform UX and offers influence across multiple product teams in a collaborative, AI-aware environment.