UX Designer III, Product (Memphis, TN or Remote in USA)
We’re looking for a UX Designer III with a passion for Design Systems to lead the vision and evolution of a scalable, cohesive system that powers digital products supporting the St. Jude mission. This role ensures consistency, usability, and accessibility across all digital experiences by creating and maintaining a unified set of components, patterns, and guidelines.
You’ll collaborate across product teams to accelerate delivery, improve quality, and enable experimentation that drives measurable audience behavior change and business outcomes. If you thrive on strategic design thinking, collaborative empathy practices, and creating reusable, brand-aligned assets, this is the role for you.
What You’ll Do
- Own and evolve the Design System: Develop, document, and maintain reusable components, patterns, and guidelines that ensure consistency, accessibility, and scalability across digital products.
- Create adoption-ready artifacts: Produce high- and low-fidelity component mockups, interaction specs, and usage documentation for seamless implementation.
- Collaborate cross-functionally: Partner with Product Managers, UI Developers, and Content Strategists to integrate the design system into workflows.
- Establish governance: Define processes for component requests, updates, and contributions to maintain system integrity.
- Champion accessibility: Embed WCAG and inclusive design principles into all components; conduct audits and testing for compliance.
- Drive education and adoption: Lead workshops, demos, and training sessions to promote design system maturity.
- Measure and iterate: Define KPIs for adoption and effectiveness; use analytics and feedback to continuously improve.
- Influence product strategy: Serve as a subject matter expert for design system best practices.
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years of experience in UX, Design, or UI Development.
- Expert-level proficiency in Figma for component libraries and prototypes.
- Experience building and maintaining design systems at scale using atomic design principles.
- Familiarity with collaboration tools (FigJam, Mural, Miro).
- Strong understanding of WCAG accessibility standards and UI principles.
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript for design-to-development handoff.
- Experience with usability testing and analytics tools (UserTesting.com, HotJar, Adobe Analytics, Google Analytics).
- Ability to craft UX artifacts like journey maps, sitemaps, and personas.
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills.
- Strong problem-solving ability, self-direction, and collaborative mindset.
- Core Medical Coverage: (low cost low deductible Medical, Dental, and Vison Insurance plans)
- 401K Retirement Plan with 7% Employer Contribution
- Exceptional Paid Time Off
- Maternity / Paternity Leave
- Infertility Treatment Program
- Adoption Assistance
- Education Assistance
- Enterprise Learning and Development
- And more
ALSAC is an equal employment opportunity employer.
ALSAC does not discriminate against any individual with regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or other protected status.
No Search Firms:
ALSAC does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All resumes submitted by search firms to any ALSAC employee or ALSAC representative via email, the internet or in any form and/or method without being contacted and approved by our Employee Experience team and without a valid written search agreement in place will result in no fee being paid if a referred candidate is hired by ALSAC.
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What We Do
ALSAC is the largest healthcare-related charity in the United States. Founded in 1957 by Danny Thomas, our sole mission is to raise the funds and awareness needed to operate and maintain St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®. While our headquarters can be found in Memphis, Tennessee, we have additional offices in more than 30 locations across the country and in Puerto Rico with positions in fundraising, marketing, digital, information technology, legal, finance and many other disciplines all supporting our lifesaving mission - Finding cures. Saving children. ®
At ALSAC, we believe in hiring the best and brightest from around the globe, and in 2020 we were named #1 on Fast Company's 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators. With a concerted focus on diversity and inclusion, we value and respect the contributions of all of our employees. Our work environment encourages everyone to be their authentic selves as we strive together towards a day when “no child dies in the dawn of life.”
As we look to the future, we understand that we must be relentlessly innovative. Our work helps fuel the groundbreaking research and treatment at St. Jude and ensures that families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
View our career opportunities at https://www.stjude.org/jobs/alsac.html and follow ALSAC across social media using @stjude.
To learn more about the research hospital, follow St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on LinkedIn. For specific career opportunities available through the hospital, visit www.stjude.org/JoinOurMission.
