Senior UI Designer

Anchour • New Gloucester, ME

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

We're hiring a Senior UI Designer to own how the digital experiences we build look and feel. You'll lead UI across websites, eCommerce platforms, and digital products, from first concept through launch. You'll build the design systems, component libraries, and tokens that let a family of brands ship on one foundation, and that a client's own team can extend long after launch. We're growing, and so is the work. You'll turn brand, UX flows, and content into high-fidelity, build-ready design, desktop and mobile. You'll partner with UX, strategy, development, and marketing, and carry your design intent through build, QA, and launch. Our Experience team sits at the heart of every build, and we're looking for a senior designer who can lead UI across projects, raise our standards, and help our design systems grow up alongside the work. We've been building our own AI tools since 2024, and we want a designer who's glad to bring AI into the work, from early exploration through handoff. This is a senior, client-facing role. Local or remote, with a soft spot for folks in New England or the wider Northeast so we can get in a room now and then. You'll report to our VP of Experience. About Anchour Anchour is a creative agency of 40+ people focused on building unforgettable brands and digital experiences that help businesses punch above their weight. Headquartered in Maine, we partner with SMBs and growing brands across industries like consumer goods, nutrition, fitness, financial services, hospitality, and retail. Our work spans brand strategy, identity design, website design and development, content strategy, and full-service marketing. We call ourselves Creative Pragmatists. Great work happens when smart people are trusted to do it, and we've built a place where talented people have real ownership, real influence over direction, and the room to do the best work of their careers.

Requirements

• 5+ years of UI, product, or digital design.
• A strong portfolio of high-quality interface systems and shipped work.
• Agency experience strongly preferred.
• Craft fundamentals. Typography, color, layout, hierarchy, and motion.
• Systems thinking. You've built design systems and component libraries that other people can pick up and extend.
• Accessibility in your bones. A strong grasp of usability and WCAG 2.2 AA, baked into how you work.
• Figma expertise. Fluent in Figma and collaborative design workflows.
• Comfortable working alongside developers through build and QA, with a solid understanding of front-end fundamentals.
• Ownership. You scope to budget, juggle several projects at once, communicate early, and own the outcome.
• A low-ego, curious teammate. Collaborative, invested in making the work and the team better, and glad to bring AI into how you design.

Nice To Haves

• eCommerce (Shopify) experience is a plus, and so is designing for headless or enterprise CMS handoffs.
• Northeast-based, ideally. We're a Maine company and we love getting our people in the same room, so New England or the wider Northeast is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Own UI from concept to launch.
• Lead interface design across projects with limited oversight.
• Turn brand, UX flows, and content into high-fidelity, build-ready design, desktop and mobile, with WCAG 2.2 AA in from the first artboard.
• Build the design systems behind the work. Component libraries, interaction patterns, and responsive behavior across breakpoints.
• Define the design systems that hold it all together. Typography, color, spacing, and motion as documented design systems.
• Prototype to earn the yes. Build high-fidelity prototypes that pressure-test the key flows and get stakeholders to sign off before development starts.
• Hand off so engineers build it right. Organized, documented Figma files and implementation-ready spec packages.
• Partner with developers through build and QA so the finished site matches what you designed.
• Lead the work. Serve as the primary UI lead on your projects.
• Make confident calls grounded in user needs, business goals, accessibility, and what's buildable.
• Scope your design to the budget and the timeline, and catch risks before they turn into rework.
• Raise our standards. Contribute to our design systems, documentation, and reviews.
• Share what you know with the Experience and Creative teams, and help shape how we design and deliver.
• Put AI to work. Use our AI tools across your workflow, from early exploration to documentation to QA, and help the team build fluency over time.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible Work
• Retirement Savings plan with a 4% company match
• Premium health, dental, vision, and life insurance with generous coverage
• Optional health savings account
• Home Office Setup: A laptop plus 50% reimbursement for home office equipment
• 12 paid holidays throughout the year, including three flexible holidays
• Minimum three weeks of paid time off per year
• Paid parental, medical, bereavement, and other types of leave
• Half-day Fridays throughout the summer
• Lifelong Learners Fund: Cash for professional development like books, conferences, and courses, plus team bonding fun
• Baby Bonding Bucks: A $500 bonus to cover diapers, meals, and other expenses for any employee welcoming a new child.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed