You'll contribute to design critiques, collaborate on user testing, and help refine our design processes. This role is ideal for designers ready to deepen their craft and take on more responsibility in shaping product experiences.
Position Responsibilities:
- Translate business requirements and user insights into intuitive, user-centered design solutions across desktop and mobile platforms.
- Assist in user research activities, including persona development, heuristic evaluations, usability reviews, and competitive analysis, to inform design decisions.
- Create and iterate on UX deliverables such as user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, prototypes (low/high fidelity), and information architecture.
- Extend and apply the design system using reusable components, icon libraries, templates, and brand standards to ensure consistency and efficiency.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams-including product managers, developers, content strategists, and UX leads-to align on goals, constraints, and implementation strategies.
- Communicate design rationale clearly in design reviews and stakeholder presentations, advocating for user needs and business impact.
- Participate in agile ceremonies and workflows, providing design assets, specifications, and feedback throughout the development lifecycle.
- Support usability testing and review behavioral analytics to validate and optimize design performance.
- Maintain detailed design specifications and partner with developers to ensure accurate implementation, including involvement in user acceptance testing.
- Stay current with UX trends, tools, and technologies, and contribute to evolving team processes and design practices.
- Manage time effectively by estimating effort, planning schedules, and prioritizing tasks within sprint cycles.
- Use general-purpose LLM tools to analyze and synthesize user behavior, identify patterns, and prioritize opportunities.
- Use AI to accelerate discovery, experimentation, development, and recommend improvements.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related field and 2 years' experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master's degree and up to 2 years' experience; or 6 years' experience in a related field
- 2+ years of relevant experience designing responsive web and mobile applications, with a portfolio demonstrating thoughtful UX solutions.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma and familiarity with prototyping tools and AI-assisted design workflows.
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards.
- Experience conducting user research and translating insights into actionable design decisions.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in Agile environments.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present design rationale to cross-functional teams
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
- Familiarity with design systems and component-based design approaches.
- Familiarity with text-to-prototype tools
- Ability to partner with product teams and leverage tools for rapid prototyping for the purposes of research, discovery, and experimentation
- Experience creating AI products or strong knowledge of AI and agentic design practices, such as model limitations, guardrails, evals, and feedback loops
Additional Information Regarding the Position:
- Reports to UX Manager or Product Design Lead
- May require occasional travel
USD 98,300.00 - 147,500.00 per year
Compensation:
Compensation includes a base salary in the range of $98,300.00 - $147,500.00. The base salary may vary within the anticipated base pay range based on factors such as the ultimate location of the position and the selected candidate's knowledge, skills, and abilities. Position may be eligible for additional compensation that may include an incentive program.
Benefits:
The Company offers eligible employees the flexibility to take as much vacation with pay as they deem consistent with their duties, the company's needs, and its obligations; seven paid holidays throughout the calendar year; and up to 160 hours of paid wellness annually for their own wellness or that of family members. Employees are also eligible for additional paid time off in the form of bereavement leave, time off to vote, jury duty leave, volunteer time off, military leave, and parental leave.
Applicants must currently be authorized to work in the United States for any employer without current or future sponsorship.
EOE, including disability/vets
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in HCI, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, or related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
- 2+ years of relevant experience designing responsive web and mobile applications with a portfolio demonstrating UX solutions
- Advanced proficiency in Figma
- Familiarity with prototyping tools and AI-assisted design workflows
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and accessibility standards
- Experience conducting user research (persona development, heuristic evaluations, usability reviews, competitive analysis)
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in Agile environments
- Excellent communication skills, ability to present design rationale to cross-functional teams
- Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple priorities effectively
- Familiarity with design systems and component-based design approaches
- Familiarity with text-to-prototype tools
- Ability to partner with product teams and leverage tools for rapid prototyping for research, discovery, and experimentation
- Experience creating AI products or strong knowledge of AI and agentic design practices (model limitations, guardrails, evals, feedback loops)
Cox Enterprises Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as robust with multiple medical plan options (PPOs and an HSA‑eligible HDHP), in‑network preventive care at 100%, and expanded mental health and virtual care access. Specialized offerings such as fertility benefits, gender‑affirming care, and wellness programs (e.g., Calm, FitnessOnDemand, Hinge Health) further bolster breadth.
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Retirement Support — The 401(k) program features an enhanced employer contribution for most newer hires—dollar‑for‑dollar matching up to 6% and an automatic 2% contribution after 90 days, with legacy formulas for earlier hire dates. Financial tools and student‑debt support via Candidly deepen long‑term savings support.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave of eight weeks, adoption assistance (up to $5,000 per adoption), and resources like backup care and childcare discounts are highlighted. Family‑building and caregiving supports (e.g., fertility coverage, Milk Stork, Care.com access) are emphasized across materials.
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What We Do
Cox Enterprises is a family-owned enterprise spanning 125+ years of innovation. Through our diverse network of businesses, our people are shaping the future with bold thinking, cutting-edge technology and an unwavering commitment to doing what’s right. Across a range of industries — including automotive, agriculture, cleantech, journalism and more — we’re building a better future for this generation and the next. Make your mark at Cox!
Why Work With Us
Founded in 1898, Cox Enterprises is a community of kind, grounded individuals who work together to drive positive change across vital industries. At Cox, employees experience meaningful work, great benefits, work-life balance and a supportive team environment, plus ample opportunities for career growth across our family of businesses.
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