Assistant Vice President, UX/UI Developer

Antares Capital • Atlanta, NY

13d • $145,000 - $175,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The UX/UI Developer, AVP is a hands-on design and engineering role on Antares’ Reporting & Data Services team. The position combines user experience design, front-end engineering and design system leadership to create intuitive, scalable and accessible experiences across enterprise software applications. The successful candidate will guide work from research and workflow analysis through wireframing, high-fidelity prototyping, usability validation and production-ready implementation, including rapid prototyping with business stakeholders. The role collaborates with stakeholders, product owners, architects and engineers across the enterprise to improve usability and productivity and promote a consistent, user-centered approach to applications, including emerging AI-enabled experiences.

The role requires a track record of taking digital products from research and concept through implementation and demonstrating improvements to usability, consistency or productivity. The successful candidate balances visual design craft with front-end engineering, works independently across fast-moving enterprise projects, and communicates design rationale effectively to business, engineering and leadership audiences.

The position must be based from the Chicago or New York office. Candidates must have unrestricted U.S. work authorization and be willing to complete pre-employment screening, including drug testing, reference verification and a background check. The role is eligible for a discretionary annual bonus. The stated base salary range is $145,000–$175,000.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• At least 5 years of experience in UI/UX design, UX engineering, front-end engineering or a comparable hybrid role.
• A portfolio demonstrating user-centered design, interaction design, prototyping, design systems and implemented digital products.
• Proficiency with Figma, Axure RP, Marvel and Balsamiq, and judgment in choosing tools based on the required fidelity and speed.
• Strong knowledge of HTML5, CSS3 or SCSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, responsive design and component-based application development.
• Experience developing modern web applications with React or a comparable front-end framework.
• Experience creating or contributing to reusable design systems and component libraries.
• Working knowledge of accessibility principles and ability to incorporate accessibility into design and implementation decisions.
• Experience in Agile software delivery environments and collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
• Exceptional written, verbal and visual communication skills, including articulating design rationale, presenting creative decisions and building alignment across business, engineering and leadership audiences.
• Ability to work independently on fast-moving, enterprise-scale projects, own a workstream end-to-end, manage competing priorities without close supervision and maintain quality and momentum through ambiguity.
• Strong user research and workflow analysis skills, including uncovering user needs, mapping complex processes and translating findings into design direction.
• Strong interaction and visual design skills, including layout, typography, hierarchy and information architecture for data-dense enterprise applications.
• Hands-on ability to build responsive, performant and maintainable interfaces with React, TypeScript and modern CSS.
• Ability to create reusable components, patterns and tokens that scale across applications and teams.
• Practical accessibility expertise, applying inclusive design principles from early concepts through implementation and testing.
• Rapid prototyping ability across Figma, Axure RP, Marvel and Balsamiq, with the judgment to create testable concepts quickly and iterate based on evidence.
• Practical fluency with AI-enabled tools and interaction patterns, including designing clear, trustworthy experiences for AI-assisted workflows.
• Technical fluency to collaborate credibly with architects and engineers on APIs, front-end architecture and delivery constraints.
• Strong prioritization skills to balance user needs, business value and technical effort across multiple applications.
• Must have unrestricted authorization to work in the United States.
• Must be willing to comply with pre-employment screening, including drug testing, reference verification and a background check.
• Must be willing to work from the Chicago or New York office.

Nice To Haves

• Experience designing and developing enterprise software, workflow applications, dashboards or data-intensive products.
• Experience with Storybook, design tokens, Git, GitHub, CI/CD practices and cloud-based application delivery.
• Experience with data visualization and presenting complex information in clear, decision-oriented interfaces.
• Experience designing conversational interfaces, copilots, AI-powered workflows or other emerging interaction models.
• Familiarity with WCAG 2.2 AA guidelines, assistive technologies, and automated and manual accessibility testing.
• Experience using AI-assisted design and development tools, such as GitHub Copilot or Figma AI features, to accelerate prototyping and delivery.
• Hands-on experience facilitating or participating in structured rapid prototyping sessions, such as design sprints, time-boxed ideation workshops or facilitated concept reviews, with the goal of producing a tangible, testable artifact quickly.
• Experience in financial services, private credit, banking, capital markets or another regulated industry.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders, product owners and engineering teams to understand user needs, workflows, business objectives and technical constraints.
• Conduct user research, workflow analysis and usability testing to identify opportunities to simplify complex business processes.
• Create user journeys, information architecture, wireframes, flow diagrams, interactive prototypes and high-fidelity interface designs.
• Lead and participate in rapid prototyping sessions with business stakeholders to turn ambiguous ideas into testable concepts quickly.
• Translate approved designs into responsive, production-quality user interfaces using modern front-end frameworks and technologies.
• Develop, document and maintain a company-wide design system, including reusable components, interaction patterns, design tokens and accessibility guidance.
• Partner with software engineers to ensure design fidelity, technical feasibility, maintainability and consistent implementation across applications.
• Evaluate existing applications and recommend improvements based on user feedback, usability findings, accessibility requirements and product objectives.
• Ensure interfaces align with corporate brand standards, responsive design practices and applicable accessibility standards.
• Contribute to front-end architecture, coding standards, peer reviews, quality assurance and continuous improvement practices.
• Define and track experience measures, such as task completion, adoption and user satisfaction, to inform design priorities and continuous improvement.
• Participate in Agile delivery activities, including planning, refinement, design reviews, demonstrations and retrospectives.
• Stay current with UI/UX research, front-end technologies, design tools and emerging interaction patterns, including AI-enabled experiences.

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Employer-paid short- and long-term disability insurance and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Profit sharing.
• Paid time off.
• Maven family and fertility benefit.
• Parental leave, including adoption, surrogacy and foster placement.
• Other voluntary benefits.
• Eligibility for a discretionary annual bonus based on company, business unit and individual performance.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior