Staff User Experience Designer

About Ontra
Ontra is the global leader in AI legal tech for private markets. Powered by industry-leading AI, data from 1M+ contracts, and a global network of legal professionals, Ontra's private markets technology platform streamlines and optimizes critical legal and compliance workflows across the full fund lifecycle. Ontra's purpose-built solutions automate contracts, streamline obligation management, digitize entity management, and surface insights. Trusted by more than 800 global GPs, investment banks, law firms, and advisors - including nine of the top ten PEI-ranked firms worldwide - Ontra helps firms focus on what's important to them.
Our Culture
Ontra is a remote-first company that values the power of connection. We find innovative ways to stay connected, both virtually and in person. By promoting ownership, inspiring creativity, and championing collaboration, Ontra enables you to shape your impact and growth. Our commitment to innovation extends beyond our technology; it's embedded in our culture, and AI plays a crucial role in everything we do.
Our culture is one where belonging is the cornerstone of every interaction, rooted in acceptance and respect for all. Our commitment to inclusion begins at the application process, ensuring a fair and equitable hiring experience that values the unique contributions you bring from day one.
For this job we are currently only hiring candidates based in the United States.
About the opportunity
Ontra is seeking a Staff User Experience Designer reporting to our Senior Director of UX.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead core initiatives to create intuitive, and easy to use experiences for Ontra's clients and legal partners at scale. You will not only build new product features but leverage user insights to drive a seamless user experience across our suite of software solutions. A keen sense of urgency and a user-centric mindset are critical to the success of this role.
If you are driven by solving complex problems from ideation to execution, we'd love to get to know you!
What you'll do

• Ownership: owns core initiatives collaborating with other senior team members and above, will be expected to become an expert in their area and "go-to" for information and advice in their focus areas.
• Discovery: Use research and data to inform feature development, including: leading discovery, analyzing feedback, and using qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions.
• Design: Design simple and efficient mockups and prototypes using our design system to help communicate ideas and inform development decisions.
• Take Initiative: Take the lead on understanding customer pain points, driving and collaborating on team and product priorities, validating design ideas, advocating for usability improvements, and facilitating design activities.
• Unify: Ensure all features maintain a consistent experience to create a sense of a unified platform.
• Mentorship: contributes to teams' shared knowledge of UX best practices. Shares feedback to designers on teammates' designs in a constructive and supportive way. Mentors junior and mid-level designers and coaches them on hard and soft skills.

What you'll bring

• UX Design Experience: 8+ years experience in user experience and product design, including user discovery, prototyping, empowering teams, and using data to inform decisions, ideally in an agile environment.
• Proven Success Record: an advanced performer with a record of delivering successful projects with various teams.
• Influence: influences decisions effectively communicating across the business.
• Collaboration : Collaborates and engages the entire development team (Product, Engineers, QE) to understand the problems being solved, and include them in the ideation process.
• Systematic Approach: Design systematically (with best practices in mind).
• Big Picture Thinking: Thinks about how features interact with the product as a whole and how it fits into the larger suite of products.

Pay TransparencyOntra takes individual candidate location, experience, and skills into consideration when determining compensation. The base pay range is listed below. Additionally, all positions are eligible for unit-based equity grants.
Some positions may be eligible for additional compensation, such as commission or other variable compensation structures, which is not included in the below base pay range.
If you are selected to participate in our interview process, your Talent Acquisition Partner will share more details about the total compensation package for the role.
Base Pay Range
$188,000 - $263,000 USD
Hiring Locations
We currently hire exclusively in the locations listed below. Select jobs may have more specific location requirements due to business needs.
United States
Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
APAC
Hong Kong, Singapore
EMEA
United Kingdom
Benefits Snapshot

• Remote-first working policy, with office hubs in SF, NYC, Santa Barbara, and London
• Twice yearly team offsites for in-person collaboration
• Paid flexible time off policy
• Paid parental leave and benefits
• Employer-supported retirement contributions, varying by country
• Monthly phone and internet reimbursement
• Company-sponsored LinkedIn Learning accounts, department budgets for professional development, and robust onboarding program
• Various options for medical, dental, and vision insurance

Travel
Occasional travel is required for Ontra employees, including typically at least twice per year to attend team and larger group off-sites for in-person collaboration. For some roles, additional travel may be required based on the requirements of the role and business need.
Inclusivity
Ontra is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Ontra will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [email protected] .
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