Senior User Interface Designer - Platform Development

About this role

About Wealth Enhancement

Wealth Enhancement is an independent wealth management firm with an endless passion for enriching the lives of our clients. We continually seek to perfect our craft of personalized financial planning with our team-based Roundtable and UniFi processes that go far beyond the standard approach. We proudly provide unique financial plans and investment management services to over 90,000 households from our over 175 offices - and growing - nationwide.

Since 1997, Wealth Enhancement has tirelessly raised the standard of wealth management with specialized knowledge and more attentive service that helps every client craft their future. For more information, please visit .

The Senior User Interface Designer – Platform Development is the primary owner and subject-matter expert for Wealth Enhancement's Design System. This senior individual contributor defines and maintains the system's standards, component architecture, design tokens, governance, and documentation so it remains consistent, scalable, accessible, developer usable, and understandable by approved AI-assisted tools.

The designer also creates polished interfaces for new screens, workflows, and features across enterprise products. The role partners with user experience, product, engineering, architecture, and business teams at defined points in the service delivery process, carries design intent through implementation validation, and enables teams to apply established patterns independently.

This is a fully remote position.

In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range for this position is $110,000.00 to $120,000.00, exclusive of bonuses and benefits. The role is also eligible to participate in the corporate bonus plan. We encourage you to apply and provide us with your compensation expectations when you do. We're big on open conversations, so, let's have one.

Primary Job Functions

Design System Ownership and Governance

• Own and evolve the enterprise Design System, including libraries, components, variables, patterns, and documentation

• Prioritize the design-system roadmap using product needs, adoption data, accessibility risks, and implementation gaps

• Define token architecture, naming, metadata, usage guidance, and front-end alignment

• Govern contributions, releases, deprecation, migration, and adoption, audit for duplication, inconsistency, accessibility, and reuse

UI Design and Prototyping

• Design responsive screens, workflows, and complete interface states using approved patterns

• Translate user, business, and workflow needs into clear, efficient interfaces

• Create high-fidelity designs and prototypes aligned with approved Design Systems

Implementation Quality

• Partner across cross-functional teams to translate Design System specifications into implemented experiences

• Review implementation for fidelity, responsive behavior, system use, and accessibility; document material defects in Jira and confirm resolution

• Serve as the design authority during validation and user acceptance activities, using recurring gaps to improve the system

Accessible and Inclusive Design

• Apply current accessibility standards and inclusive design practices to components and interfaces

• Document and validate contrast, hierarchy, focus, keyboard interaction, responsive behavior, and content structure

AI Ready Design Standards

• Structure components, tokens, metadata, and guidance for reliable use by people and approved AI tools

• Direct AI-assisted work toward approved patterns and reusable components through clear guardrails

• Evaluate AI-assisted outputs for quality, accessibility, brand alignment, and system compliance

Service Delivery and Collaboration

• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver consistent, high-quality experiences

• Engage at defined Service Delivery Framework checkpoints and provide specifications, assets, acceptance guidance, rationale, and tradeoffs suited to the work's complexity and risk

• Manage priorities and documentation in Jira and Confluence; use experience-quality measures to guide improvements and coach partners to apply standards independently

Improve Service Quality by Using AI and Digital Tools

• Use approved AI and digital tools to simplify work, improve service quality, and increase efficiency, while validating outputs for accuracy, privacy, and business alignment

• Identify and escalate inaccurate information and knowledge gaps, or issues related to digital tools

Education/Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a design-related field or equivalent professional experience required (as demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, or education)

• Five or more years of professional UI, UX, product, interaction, or visual design experience, including significant responsibility for building, governing, or evolving a Design System

• Portfolio demonstrates strong visual craft, systems thinking, responsive design, accessible interface solutions, and reusable systems work

• Advanced proficiency in Figma, including libraries, components, variants, properties, variables, modes, and prototyping

• Strong understanding of design-token architecture, responsive behavior, complete interface states, and accessible interaction patterns

• Working knowledge of front-end component architecture and the relationship between design standards and coded components - coding is not required

• Clear written, verbal, and presentation skills, including the ability to explain complex design decisions, tradeoffs, and implementation guidance to technical and nontechnical partners

• Ability to manage priorities independently and collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams

• Proficient at using AI and digital tools, creating and maintaining knowledge content, and driving improvements based on data and feedback

• Experience with enterprise software, financial…