As a Senior Experience Designer at Code and Theory, you are crucial to evolving how users interact with digital platforms. You'll lead the creation of not just compelling deliverables but impactful solutions that reshape our understanding of user experiences in the digital landscape. Your role will leverage data and research insights to optimize platform performance and drive broader strategic innovation. In this role, you will also mentor junior and mid-level designers, setting the bar for craft and helping shape the next generation of talent in experience design.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead multidisciplinary teams to redefine user experience design, merging user insights with cutting-edge technology to drive strategic vision
- Champion the integration of AI and generative tools in design processes, setting standards for creativity, efficiency, and strategic platform enhancement
- Push beyond standard deliverables to pioneer innovative ideas that challenge existing paradigms and elevate overall design impact
- Own the use of data and research findings to enhance user interactions, ensuring performance-driven design approaches across projects
- Maintain an acute awareness of industry trends, using them to inform and elevate our design practices ahead of the curve
- Mentor and guide junior and mid-level designers, providing feedback, direction, and hands-on coaching to develop their skills
- Cultivate a culture of innovation and curiosity within the team through active collaboration, strategic engagement, and thought leadership
- Partner with creative and account leads to shape design strategy and represent the design point of view in client-facing conversations
- Demonstrate flexibility and a positive attitude by supporting your team in various capacities, embracing tasks beyond your immediate role to help "make cool shit with impact" and have fun doing it
- Manage workload and project timelines to keep design work prioritized, scoped appropriately, and delivered on schedule
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
- Extensive experience in UX design, with a track record of leading projects end-to-end and mentoring others
- Ability to translate creativity into effective and user-centric design solutions that enhance platform performance
- Demonstrated adaptability and curiosity toward emerging design technologies and data-driven methods
- Advanced proficiency in design tools like Figma, with fluency in AI-enhanced workflows
- Strong leadership and collaborative abilities, fostering a supportive and innovative creative environment
- Deep understanding of atomic design principles, design systems, and how to scale them across products
- Expertise working in Figma (components, variables, autolayout, etc.); proficiency with tools like AirTable, Confluence, Jira, and Principle are a bonus
- Bachelor's degree in design, a related field, or equivalent experience
ABOUT US
Born in 2001, Code and Theory is a digital-first creative agency that sits at the center of creativity and technology. We pride ourselves on not only solving consumer and business problems, but also helping to establish new capabilities for our clients. With a global client roster of Fortune 100s and start-ups alike, we crave the hardest problems to solve. With a remote-first approach to our people, we have teams distributed across North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. The Code and Theory global network of agencies is growing and includes Kettle, Instrument, Left Field Labs, Mediacurrent, Rhythm, and TrueLogic.
Striving never to be pigeonholed, we work across every major category: from tech to CPG, financial services to travel & hospitality, government and education to media and publishing. We value the collaboration with our client partners, including but not limited to Adidas, Amazon, Con Edison, Diageo, EY, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lenovo, Marriott, Mars, Microsoft, Thomson Reuters, and TikTok.
The Code and Theory network is comprised of nearly 2,000 people with 50% engineers and 50% creative talent. We’re always on the lookout for smart, driven, and forward-thinking people to join our team.
The compensation range for this role is $90,000 – $115,000 and spans multiple levels. We're open to hiring at the level that best matches the right candidate's experience. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, budget, and location.
Skills Required
- Extensive UX design experience, including leading projects end-to-end and mentoring others
- Ability to translate creativity into effective, user-centric design solutions that enhance platform performance
- Adaptability and curiosity toward emerging design technologies and data-driven methods
- Advanced proficiency in Figma and fluency in AI-enhanced workflows
- Strong leadership and collaboration skills
- Deep understanding of atomic design principles and design systems, including scaling them across products
- Expertise with Figma components, variables, and Auto Layout
- Bachelor's degree in design or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Experience with Airtable, Confluence, Jira, and Principle
Code and Theory Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Code and Theory and has not been reviewed or approved by Code and Theory.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off policies include an “unlimited”/flexible PTO approach with paid holidays/sick time and seasonal early-close Fridays, offering notable flexibility. These options provide additional downtime beyond standard accrual models.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage is part of the standard package, with employer-verified health plan information cited as current. Life and disability insurance further reinforce foundational coverage.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with employer match is included in the package, supporting long-term savings. Candidates are encouraged to confirm the match formula during the offer stage.
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What We Do
Code and Theory is a strategically driven, digital-first creative agency that lives at the intersection of creativity and technology. We solve consumer and business problems across the entire customer journey that flex to meet the ever-changing needs of consumer expectations. We put the user, their behaviors and needs, at the center of everything we do — from our proprietary research methodologies, to product development processes, to how we create brand, channel and messaging strategies. Our goal is simple: to solve our clients business problems. We bring big ideas to life by looking holistically at brand ecosystems where digital plays a prominent role in driving the consumer from first-touch through to conversion to relationship deepening over time. We identify gaps in the consumer journey and opportunities in culture that require products, services or communications to fill. We work across categories, ranging as far and wide as health care (Pfizer, Sanofi, Reach MD, Bioreference Laboratories) to financial services (JP Morgan Chase, Prudential, Morgan Stanley, First Data) to cpg (Mars, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson) to technology companies (Facebook, Xerox, Samsung, Comcast) to culture brands (adidas, H&M). And because our DNA is in publishing — we’ve embedded in over 135 newsrooms in the past decade — we bring unique expertise in understanding how content is created, distributed and optimized, including our work with CNN, NBC News, NBC Sports, and Bustle Digital Group. At Code and Theory, we strive to only be limited by our own ambition and creativity. We believe in pushing our creativity beyond the easy and obvious answers in order to deliver the solutions that are right for our clients, their businesses, and their consumers.
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