Senior Product Designer
Senior Product Designer (Staff / Principal-Level IC)
Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid 2 Days/Week) or Fully Remote (U.S.)
Type: W2 Contract
Duration: Long-Term Contract
Compensation: $55–70/hr W2
About the Role
Our client is seeking a highly balanced Staff/Principal-level Product Designer to help shape and modernize complex dealer-facing software experiences within a large-scale automotive technology platform.
This is not a specialist UX role focused only on research, visual design, or strategy.
We are looking for a true end-to-end product designer who can independently own product work across the full lifecycle — from discovery and research through workflow design, production execution, prototyping, and engineering handoff.
This person should be equally comfortable:
- Defining complex workflow problems
- Navigating product and stakeholder tradeoffs
- Defending design decisions with business logic and research
- Creating production-ready UX
- Helping teams operationalize future-state concepts into realistic MVPs and phased delivery plans
This role sits inside a highly AI-forward product organization where designers are expected to actively leverage modern AI tooling as part of day-to-day workflow execution.
What Makes This Role Different
This is not traditional consumer-facing UX or a strategy-only design role.
This team is specifically looking for someone who thrives in:
- Complex enterprise operational systems
- Workflow-heavy B2B SaaS environments
- CRM-style ecosystems and admin platforms
- Data-dense operational tooling
- AI-assisted product experiences
- Legacy modernization initiatives
- Product environments where UX decisions must balance user needs, business goals, and engineering realities
The strongest candidates will be balanced generalists who are consistently strong across:
- discovery
- research
- product thinking
- systems design
- production UX
- prototyping
- stakeholder management
- engineering handoff
- tactical execution
About the Product
The platform supports dealership sales representatives, managers, and operational teams across critical business workflows, including:
- Lead management and prioritization
- Customer communication workflows
- Inventory visibility and tracking
- Deal and pipeline management
- Reporting, dashboards, and operational insights
- Workflow orchestration and automation
The product is also evolving through AI-driven capabilities such as:
- Lead scoring and prioritization
- AI-assisted recommendations and next-best actions
- Workflow automation
- Intelligent operational insights
- Predictive decision support
- AI-assisted operational experiences
What You’ll Do
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end product design across discovery, research, workflow definition, UX execution, prototyping, and engineering handoff
- Design complex workflow-heavy enterprise experiences involving interconnected user journeys, operational dependencies, and business logic
- Translate future-state concepts into practical MVPs and phased delivery plans
- Partner deeply with Product Managers, engineers, and stakeholders to influence product direction and roadmap decisions
- Defend UX recommendations through business logic, research insights, operational impact, and product reasoning
- Navigate tradeoffs across user needs, business priorities, engineering constraints, and delivery realities
- Design and refine:
- User flows
- Information architecture
- Wireframes
- High-fidelity UI
- Interactive prototypes
- Workflow maps
- Service blueprints
- Systems models
- Conduct and synthesize research, usability testing, and workflow discovery
- Facilitate workshops, critiques, and cross-functional working sessions
- Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure high-quality implementation
- Balance strategic thinking with tactical hands-on production work in fast-moving agile environments
- Help modernize legacy enterprise systems into scalable, intelligent product ecosystems
AI & Modern Product Workflow Expectations
This team is actively integrating AI into both the product experience and the internal product development workflow.
Strong candidates are not simply AI-aware — they are actively integrating AI into how they think, prototype, collaborate, research, and accelerate delivery.
Strong preference for candidates with practical hands-on experience using tools/workflows such as:
- Claude
- Claude Code
- Figma Make
- VS Code
- Cursor
- v0
- ChatGPT / Gemini
- AI-assisted prototyping workflows
- AI-powered research and synthesis tools
Candidates should be able to speak clearly to how AI improves product thinking, prototyping, iteration speed, workflow exploration, and delivery outcomes — not just casual experimentation.
What We’re Looking For
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of Product Design / UX Design experience, with clear Staff/Principal-level ownership expectations
- Proven end-to-end ownership across discovery through shipped product delivery
- Strong experience designing:
- Enterprise SaaS platforms
- Internal operational tooling
- Workflow-heavy applications
- CRM ecosystems
- Dashboard/reporting systems
- Data-rich enterprise experiences
- Strong systems-thinking and workflow design experience
- Experience navigating product tradeoffs and influencing roadmap/product decisions
- Experience defending design recommendations with PMs, engineering teams, and stakeholders
- Strong UX craft across:
- interaction design
- systems design
- workflow orchestration
- enterprise usability
- production UX execution
- Experience conducting user research and applying findings directly into product decisions
- Proficiency with Figma and modern prototyping tools
- Experience partnering closely with engineering through implementation and handoff
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguity and complex enterprise environments
- Portfolio demonstrating research → product thinking → workflow complexity → tactical execution → business outcomes
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing AI-assisted product experiences or workflow automation systems
- Experience integrating AI into enterprise operational workflows
- Experience modernizing legacy enterprise systems
- Experience in automotive, logistics, supply chain, fintech, healthcare, operational SaaS, or workflow-heavy enterprise platforms
- Experience facilitating service blueprinting, systems mapping, or complex workflow modeling
- Experience mentoring designers or contributing to design operations/process improvement
The hourly pay rate range for this position is $55.00 to $70.00 (dependent on factors including but not limited to client requirements, experience, statutory considerations, and location). Benefits available to full-time employees: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k and commuter benefits.
Synergis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
For immediate consideration, please forward your resume to mpersons@synergishr.com
If you require assistance or an accommodation in the application or employment process, please contact us at mpersons@synergishr.com.
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