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Ascent

UX/UI Designer

Ascent, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60290

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AscentAI builds intelligent software to help risk and compliance teams at financial institutions keep pace with ever-evolving global regulation. Our platform transforms complex regulatory information into clear, actionable insights enabling teams to reduce risk, increase efficiency, and stay ahead of change.

We’re a small, mission-driven company pushing the boundaries of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and human-in-the-loop systems to solve some of the hardest problems in regulatory compliance.

The Role We’re looking for a UX/UI Designer to join our growing team. In this role, you’ll be responsible for the user experience and UI design of AscentAI’s global SaaS platform. You’ll collaborate closely with product and technical teams to conduct user research, design highly usable software products, and deliver best-in-class user experiences.

You’ll also serve as a user and UX/UI expert for stakeholders in product, engineering, data science, regulatory intelligence, sales, and customer support. This is a high-impact role with real ownership and visibility, offering the opportunity to influence product and business outcomes.

What You’ll Do

Identify target user groups and conduct user research to help identify, clarify, and understand user needs (functional, emotional, and behavioral)

Collaborate closely with product managers, engineers, and data scientists to design highly usable software solutions solving real customer needs

Manage UX/UI Design Discovery, utilizing current industry best practices and user testing methods

Produce design artifacts including wireframes, UI designs, and interactive mock-ups, and manage Design Discovery to test, validate, and iterate on product features, user journeys, interactions, and user-interfaces

Conduct design reviews with software engineering teams and provide UI specification and testing for all user-interface features

Work closely with product leadership to incorporate user research and validation into AscentAI’s product vision, strategy, roadmap, and development

Serve as an expert on user personas, needs, behaviors, motivations, and goals to product leadership and other stakeholders

Skills

Human-centered UX/UI design

Experience using industry tools to create UI designs and interactive mock-ups

Creative problem solving skills to provide solutions to user interface challenges

Analytical mindset and an ability to incorporate qualitative and quantitative data into decision making and recommendations

Multi-tasking and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and manage deliverables and timelines

Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to communicate ideas to product managers and software engineers

Attention to detail and mastery of information design

Experience

Minimum of 3-5 years hands‑on experience in UX/UI design; demonstrated commercial success with emphasis on software products

Experience leading design projects, user research, and workshops

Experience with complex / technical business systems and an ability to strategically analyze how complex data and information can impact user experiences

Knowledge of human‑centered designed, IDEO design thinking, SVPG’s “product operating model”, and/or modern agile software development practices is a strong plus

Understanding of or industry experience in Compliance, Risk and/or Legal is a plus

Experience with artificial intelligence and machine learning is a plus

Why Join Us?

A small, collaborative, and fast-moving team where your contributions will have an outsized impact

The chance to work on meaningful problems in regulatory technology

Remote‑first culture with flexibility and autonomy

Recognition in the regtech space for our innovation and customer value

As set forth in Ascent ’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

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