Senior UX Designer (Specialist Product)

This role is responsible for designing intuitive and value‑driven user experiences for Avient digital platforms.

This role goes beyond visual design and serves as a co-owner of user experience understanding, conducting in-depth research into user journeys, use cases, workflows, and contextual behaviours across Sales, Laboratory, and Customer touchpoints.

By translating sales-customer interaction scenarios, technical requirements and capabilities into simple and engaging digital interactions, this role plays a critical part in driving value, trust and adoption of the Avient digital platforms.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Own and design end‑to‑end experience of Avient digital products, from vision to execution

• Conduct user research and present insights to stakeholders (e.g. Personas, Journey Maps)

• Identify and validate user needs, connect with business value, and create user journey

• Create wireframes, prototypes, and interaction models 

• Observe and analyze real‑world workflows, decision points, and challenges, identify gaps between current user behavior (AS‑IS) and desired digital experience (SHOULD‑BE)

• Ensure usability, consistency, and scalability across mobile and web platforms

• Manage design systems

• Collaborate with software/data engineers to ensure design feasibility and accurate implementation

• Participate in backlog refinement and validation of delivered features

• Regular engagement with global Sales, Technology, and Laboratory users

Experience & Skills Required

• Minimum 5 years of experience in digital product design, UX design, UI design, or product design.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating user-centric problem solving, research capabilities, interaction design, and visual design excellence.
• Experience designing complex enterprise, industrial, or B2B digital products.
• Strong process-mapping, journey-mapping, and workflow-design skills.
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma and AI-assisted prototyping tools.
• Experience working effectively in cross-functional, regional, and global teams.
• Practical understanding of the software development lifecycle through direct project experience.
• Understanding of Agile and Scrum methodologies.

Additional Qualifications

• Comfortable working with highly technical, scientific, and data-intensive subject matter. 
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and storytelling skills. 
• Structured, methodical, analytical, and user-centric mindset. 
• Ability to translate complex business processes into intuitive digital experiences.