User Experience Designer Principal - Remote

Overview

Sagent is a leading mortgage servicing, SaaS-based, financial technology company that thrives on innovation and excellence. We’re looking for a Principal UI Designer to lead, scale, and evolve our design system as it extends across our enterprise product ecosystem. You’ll ensure consistency, usability, and accessibility while driving innovation in our UI components, patterns, and guidelines. You’ll collaborate closely with product designers, engineers, and stakeholders to expand and maintain a robust design system that balances structure with flexibility. While deep coding expertise isn’t required, you should be comfortable reading and understanding code to bridge the gap between design and development effectively.

In Short

• Own and scale the Figma design system to support a growing enterprise ecosystem.
• Define and maintain UI components, patterns, and documentation that empower designers and developers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure seamless design-to-code implementation.
• Advocate for best practices in accessibility, scalability, and performance across all UI elements.
• Work closely with product designers to align system components with evolving user needs.
• Standardize workflows for contribution, governance, and adoption of new design patterns.
• Conduct design audits and proactively address inconsistencies or gaps in the system.
• Serve as a champion of design system adoption, educating teams across the company.
• Stay up to date on industry trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously evolve our system.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in UI design, with at least 4 years focused on design systems.
• Strong understanding of UI development principles.
• Deep experience with design tools (Figma, Sketch, etc.) and design system management tools (Storybook).
• Familiarity with component-based design, token-based theming, and front-end frameworks.
• A solid grasp of accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA) and usability principles.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, especially engineering and product.
• Excellent communication skills.
• A problem-solving mindset with a passion for creating scalable, maintainable, and user-friendly design solutions.

Benefits

• High-impact role: You’ll directly shape a design system that supports an entire enterprise ecosystem.
• Collaboration at scale: Work with talented designers, engineers, and product teams.
• Room to grow: We value expertise and innovation.