Sr. Web UX Designer I (Remote Eligible - Costa Rica)

Smartsheet • San Jose, CA

19h • Remote

About The Position

Smartsheet is seeking a Senior Web UX Designer to join their Web UX Design team, part of Digital Demand Marketing. This role focuses on designing engaging, valuable, and intuitive experiences for the company's website. The designer will represent the end user, advocate for human-centered methodologies, and ensure designs meet user needs. The position is design-focused with an emphasis on translating ideas into buildable components for a globally distributed engineering team. Responsibilities include maintaining Web design system components, seeing work through from concept to launch, and collaborating hands-on with developers. The role also involves raising the bar for craft and design system maturity through strategic thinking. The ideal candidate is curious, receptive to feedback, and enjoys teamwork. This role reports to the Director, Web UX Design in the US and is eligible for remote work within Costa Rica, requiring the candidate to reside in Costa Rica.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience designing web or product experiences, ideally within a CMS driven or component based environment.
• Experience preparing detailed specs and redlines for engineering handoff, particularly in an asynchronous or distributed team setting.
• Comfort working directly in Jira or a similar ticketing system alongside a development team, and following a ticket through to completion.
• Familiarity with design systems, tokens, and component libraries, and genuine interest in maintaining and extending one.
• Understanding of accessibility (WCAG) standards and how they apply to web design.
• Strong visual design skills, with an eye for detail and consistency.
• Applied understanding of core design principles: hierarchy, typography, color, and layout.
• Strong interaction design and prototyping skills.
• High degree of proficiency with Figma.
• Exposure to usability testing, user research, or working from research findings.
• Basic understanding of HTML and CSS, and curiosity about how designs get built.
• Experience leveraging AI tools in your daily design workflow.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, and a collaborative, team first approach with openness and resilience to feedback.
• Degree in Design or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• A portfolio that shows strong UI/UX craft.

Nice To Haves

• Adobe design tools (Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop)
• Experience with motion (Adobe After Effects, Lottie)
• Familiarity with front end development concepts or a front end coding background.
• Experience with AI assisted and generative design tools, such as Figma Make, Lovable, or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design user journeys, wireframes, and high fidelity prototypes for web pages and components, applying and extending our existing web design system.
• Contribute components and patterns to our web design system, keeping documentation current for other designers and engineers.
• Prepare clear specifications, redlines, and handoff documentation for a fully asynchronous, globally distributed engineering team.
• Work directly in Jira alongside developers, tracking design tickets through to completion.
• Review live branches and staging builds against design specs, flagging and helping resolve visual or functional mismatches before launch.
• Conduct user research in collaboration with our research lead.
• Design and build conversion-focused web pages on a staging branch in our CMS, ensuring brand consistency and adherence to best practices.
• Use AI assisted and design-to-code tools to speed up handoff and reduce manual production work.
• Clearly communicate the rationale behind design decisions to stakeholders, and incorporate feedback constructively.
• Collaborate with engineers, web authors, TPMs, and web strategists to ship polished, accessible experiences.
• Work with other departments to gain a deep understanding of user needs and goals and communicate them cross-functionally.
• Be a self-sufficient problem solver that can navigate ambiguity while balancing a mix of projects of varying size and urgency, often with overlapping priority.
• Support other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Fully paid Health & Life insurance for full-time employees and family members
• Monthly stipend to support your work and productivity
• 12 days paid Vacation + Flexible Time Away Program
• 20 weeks fully paid Maternity Leave
• 12 weeks fully paid Paternity/Adoption Leave
• Personal paid Volunteer Day to support our community
• Opportunities for professional growth and development including access to LinkedIn Learning online courses
• Company Funded Perks including a counseling membership and your own personal Smartsheet account
• Teleworking options from any registered location in Costa Rica (role specific)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree