Principal UX/UI Designer

There are NO limits to your career: come shape the future and be part of a truly unique global culture at OutSystems!

About This Role 

As a Principal UX/UI Designer at OutSystems, you will play a major role in shaping the future of how users interact with our innovative low-code platform. You’ll lead the charge in crafting intuitive, elegant, and impactful user experiences that empower developers and organizations to build software faster and better.

In this role, you will take ownership of high-impact design initiatives, working closely with Product, Engineering, and Research teams to ensure user-centric design principles are at the core of our platform. You’ll lead by example, setting the standard for design excellence (UX as well as UI) and ensuring our interfaces and interactions are not only functional but also delightful and inspiring.

As a key influencer in the design strategy, you will drive innovation and advocate for the user’s voice throughout the product lifecycle. You’ll mentor and inspire a large talented team of designers, helping to build a world-class design practice that aligns with OutSystems' mission and values.

What You Will Lead/Do or Key Responsibilities 

• Lead High-Impact Initiatives: Drive key design projects that address complex challenges, ensuring both UX and UI solutions meet user needs and align with business objectives.

• Shape the User Experience: Craft intuitive and delightful interfaces that empower developers and organizations, making the complex simple and inspiring creativity.

• Advocate for the User: Act as a champion for user needs, leveraging research and data to inform design decisions and ensuring that user feedback is integrated into iterative design processes.

• Evolve the Design System: Contribute to and refine OutSystems’ design system to ensure consistency, scalability, and efficiency across all product touchpoints.

• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with cross-functional teams in an Agile environment to guide the design process from ideation to product delivery and launch, ensuring alignment with user and business needs.

• Drive Design Practice Development: Lead the evolution of the UX practice, ensuring it aligns seamlessly with other cross-functional areas within R&D to support strategic goals.

• Inspire and Innovate: Bring energy, flexibility, and enthusiasm to the team, introducing new practices, methodologies, and ideas that inspire creativity and drive innovation across the organization. Provide guidance and leadership to a large team of talented designers, fostering growth, collaboration, and a shared commitment to excellence.

Qualifications / What You Need To Succeed

• 7+ years of experience working in UX or Product Design;

• Experience in wide range of activities ranging from planning, conducting research in user experience, running product design processes and testing solutions;

• Experience working with cross-functional teams in various departments (e.g. design, engineering, product management, product marketing, marketing, sales);

• Ability to define a product vision for a specific area, and to influence department goals and strategy;

• Either a degree in a UX related field and professional experience with complex products, (B2B SaaS preferred).

• Expert in figma and other design tools preferred.

• Experience with Design systems is a great plus. 

• Great communication skills;

• Fluent in English, both spoken and written.

• Bonus: Knowledge of low-code platforms, software development processes, or related technical domains.

The Longer Story:

OutSystems is a global leader transforming how companies innovate through software, empowering IT leaders with a better way to build the software that matters most.We are looking for talented and motivated people to join us in helping companies solve some of their most strategic business challenges, from modernizing their workplace processes to transforming their employee and customer experiences. As a member of the OutSystems global team, you will help build, deliver, manage, and evolve the software that is a low-code market leader and preferred by professional developers around the world.

OutSystems is a truly global company, with more than 800,000 developer community members, 1,700 employees, more than 500 partners, and thousands of active customers in over 75 countries and across 21 industries. Founded in 2001, OutSystems has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Portugal, Germany, the UAE, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Australia, India, and Singapore, and of course has a thriving, worldwide community of remote employees.

Working at OutSystems

Our goal is to ensure that OutSystems is a place for bright, happy, and motivated people who share a common purpose and take pride in excellent work towards our vision. Our culture is focused on building agility at scale, which allows us to operate with a high drive in a competitive market. In our federation of teams culture, if we have every team operating like a startup, we can all learn, grow, and innovate while having the space to be proactive and creative. We encourage our team members to collaborate, focus on results, act quickly, understand our business, and adopt a growth mindset.

What do we have to offer you? 

• A company that continues to grow, change and innovate, and gives our teams the space to be proactive and creative. 

• Real career opportunities. We care about growth and development. Vertical career progression is an obvious possibility, but we also offer the possibility for lateral moves, joining different teams, and mastering specific skills. 

• Work colleagues that are as smart, hardworking and driven as you – and a team that is global. 

• Disrupting the status quo is in our DNA. In fact, it’s why our company exists.

• We “Ask Why” a lot. It helps us connect our individual work to the bigger picture and sometimes even uncover a better way.

Are you ready for the next step in your career? Then we’d love to hear from you!

OutSystems nurtures an inclusive culture of diversity, where everyone feels empowered to be their authentic self and perform at their best. A company that embraces the creativity and innovation that comes through diverse perspectives. We are committed to creating a team that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants receive equal consideration regardless of race, place of origin, color, age, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by law.

Join us in disrupting the status quo of the low-code market, we give you the power to "Ask Why", you give our customers the power to innovate through software!