UX Design Manager

<div class="content-intro"><p>Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.</p></div><h3><strong>What is The Role</strong></h3> <p>Elastic is hiring a <strong>Senior UX Designer</strong> to help design and evolve <strong>Elastic.co</strong>, our flagship website and a critical surface for product discovery, education, and conversion.</p> <p>This is not a “page production” role. You’ll own complex, content-rich experiences end-to-end—from problem framing and information architecture to interaction design, validation, and implementation partnership. You’ll operate with strong autonomy, systems thinking, and the ability to influence decisions across <strong>Product Marketing, PM, Content, SEO, Localization, UX Engineering, and Engineering</strong>.</p> <h3><strong>What You Will Be Doing</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Create and improve scalable web experiences across Elastic.co by designing reusable <strong>foundations, components, patterns, and modules</strong>.<br><br></li> <li>Lead work end-to-end using a structured approach (e.g., <strong>Double Diamond</strong>): <strong>Discover</strong> insights and context, <strong>Define</strong> the problem and success criteria, <strong>Develop</strong> solutions through iteration, and <strong>Deliver</strong> through implementation partnership and UX QA.<br><br></li> <li>Define interaction behavior, <strong>variants and states</strong>, including responsive behavior and accessibility considerations.<br><br></li> <li>Apply strong UX fundamentals to ensure solutions support <strong>clarity, hierarchy, usability, and consistency</strong> across experiences.<br><br></li> <li>Apply visual design fundamentals within system constraints to ensure high-quality UI craft (layout, spacing, typography, color, and component composition).<br><br></li> <li>Frame problems effectively by aligning on <strong>user goals, key tasks, constraints, and success criteria</strong> before execution.<br><br></li> <li>Validate and iterate using lightweight methods (heuristic reviews, usability feedback, and data signals) to improve usability over time.<br><br></li> <li>Partner closely with Engineering and UX Engineering to ensure <strong>design-to-build alignment</strong> in a component-based workflow.<br><br></li> <li>Produce clear specs and documentation (usage guidance, do/don’t, and content structure guidance) so others can confidently adopt shared patterns.<br><br></li> <li>Identify and reduce design debt by consolidating duplicates and improving consistency across the site.</li> </ul> <h3>What You Bring</h3> <ul> <li>5+ years of UX/Product Design experience, including meaningful work on <strong>component-driven web/product design</strong> (design system experience is a plus).<br><br></li> <li>A strong portfolio demonstrating both <strong>UX craft and UI craft</strong>: reusable patterns/components, clear hierarchy, usability-driven decisions, and polished execution.<br><br></li> <li>Comfort running work through an end-to-end UX process (e.g., <strong>Double Diamond: Discover, Define, Develop, Deliver</strong>) and adapting based on constraints.<br><br></li> <li>Strong command of core UX principles: usability, information hierarchy, interaction design, user flows, content structure, and heuristic-based evaluation.<br><br></li> <li>Strong visual design fundamentals: typography, color, spacing, layout, visual hierarchy, and consistency—with the ... (truncated, view full listing at source)