Senior UX Designer - Identity & Access Platform

AppFolio, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 125,000 - 157,000; Full time

Job summary

AppFolio seeks a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management experiences across its platform, including sign-in, authentication, and admin tools for roles and permissions. The role blends systems thinking with visual craft and reports to the Director of Platform UX.

You will design the foundations that product teams rely on, shaping login, MFA, and authorization with a strong emphasis on security, trust, and collaboration with engineering partners.

Qualifications

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

Responsibilities

• Design internal tools, docs, and patterns for identity & permissions.
• Own end-to-end authentication and account permissions experiences (login, passkeys, social sign-in, SSO, MFA).
• Collaborate with product teams to align work with business goals and dependencies.
• Apply research and data to guide design decisions and contribute to the design system.

Skills

UX design

Security

Authentication

System design

Research

Design systems

AI-assisted design

Tools

Claude Code

Job description

AppFolio seeks a Senior UX Designer to own identity and access management experiences across its platform, including sign-in, authentication, and admin tools for roles and permissions. The role blends systems thinking with visual craft and reports to the Director of Platform UX.

You will design the foundations that product teams rely on, shaping login, MFA, and authorization with a strong emphasis on security, trust, and collaboration with engineering partners.