UX Designer (m/f/d)

Aras is a leader in product lifecycle management (PLM) and digital thread solutions. As one of the fastest growing PLM companies, our technology enables the rapid delivery of flexible solutions built on a powerful digital thread backbone and a low-code development platform. Our platform and PLM applications connect users in all disciplines to critical product data and processes across the lifecycle and throughout the extended supply chain. The world’s largest manufacturers are leveraging Aras Innovator to manage their complex product lifecycles to improve production timelines, meet and exceed revenue growth targets, and accelerate innovation. We collaborate with companies in some of the most innovative industries, including automotive, industrial/heavy equipment, aerospace and defense, and high-tech electronics. Role Overview We are hiring a UX Designer focused on design systems and product UI execution to partner with a senior design lead to modernize the user experience of our enterprise PLM and digital thread platform. This is a hands-on, high-impact delivery role (not a pure strategy position) centered on: Turning product ideas into high-quality, buildable UI Evolving and maintaining a growing design system Equipping engineering teams with clear specifications and assets You will help increase design throughput, improve UI consistency, and remove day-to-day bottlenecks across multiple teams. At Aras, our mission is to transform the way the world makes products . By reinventing software for engineering and manufacturing, we give customers the flexibility to meet tomorrow’s challenges. Aras is in the midst of a major Product Culture transformation, with significant investment in Design. You’ll join a growing team of Product/UX Designers (7+), supported by experienced leaders in Design/UX and Product Management. As the product evolves toward AI-enabled experiences , modern UI architecture , and scalable design systems , this role helps make that transition real—turning design direction into high-quality, actionable UI that teams can build and ship. Key Responsibilities Contribute to and evolve a shared design system (components, tokens, patterns) Translate conceptual direction into reusable UI structures Help ensure consistency across apps and services Develop early concepts into thoughtful, well-crafted UI designs with strong visual clarity Progress designs toward polished, high-fidelity outputs that reflect real product use Use visual design to shape product direction and elevate overall user experience Support multiple product teams with UI needs (flows, components, visuals) Respond to requests such as layouts, icons, and feature interfaces Enable teams to move forward without waiting on design bottlenecks Own execution and production work streams Turn direction into concrete UI deliverables and specs Work autonomously on day-to-day design tasks while staying aligned with the lead Note: This is a high-collaboration, fast-moving environment where clarity is often evolving. Required Qualifications 3–5 years of experience in product UX/UI design Strong UI execution and experience working within or contributing to a design system Strong visual design fundamentals (layout, typography, spacing, hierarchy) Experience working in a product environment (not only agency/consulting) Comfortable working across ambiguity and evolving requirements Pragmatic, fast-moving, and detail-oriented Strong English Desired Qualifications Ability to take loosely defined problems and produce workable design solutions without perfect briefs or fully defined requirements Ability to produce high-quality UI quickly while balancing multiple requests and priorities Working familiarity with frontend fundamentals (HTML, CSS—including modern layout concepts like grid and responsive patterns—and basic JavaScript concepts) Awareness of how frameworks (e.g., React) influence UI implementation Ability to design with real implementation constraints in mind and understand what is feasible vs. not in the browser Ability to apply and extend established design patterns—not only create from scratch Advanced proficiency in Figma (or similar tools) Understanding of iterative development and collaboration with engineering Interested in growing toward more advanced design or design-technology roles Not a fit if you primarily focus on : branding, marketing design, or visual identity work illustration-heavy portfolios pure strategy or research-only roles highly specialized AI/ML design roles starting work from a fully defined brief Portfolio shows: real product UI (not only conceptual or marketing pieces) design system contributions UI execution for shipped or buildable features UI work delivered under ambiguous or evolving requirements