Allegion Plc

Senior User Experience (UX) Designer

Allegion Plc$110K — $146K *
Consumer Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of UX experience or 3 years with a Master's degree in a related field.
  • Strong communication skills for storytelling and presenting findings.
  • Expertise in creating UX artifacts like journey maps and prototypes.
  • Fluent in design patterns for web and mobile applications.
  • Proficient in design tools (Figma, Mural) and research tools (Maze, Qualtrics).
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted tools in design workflows.
  • Solid understanding of information architecture and accessibility guidelines.

Responsibilities

  • Lead end-to-end UX design for complex features, creating artifacts and presentations.
  • Define experience strategy and align solutions to business priorities.
  • Conduct and synthesize various research methods to inform design.
  • Advocate for post-release research and measure success through KPIs.
  • Collaborate closely with product teams and engineers during the design process.
  • Maintain a backlog of opportunities and share insights with stakeholders.
  • Mentor junior team members and support their professional development.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
  • 401K plan with 6% company match and no vesting period.
  • Tuition reimbursement for further education.
  • Unlimited PTO for work-life balance.
  • Employee discounts available through a perks program.
  • Community involvement opportunities for social impact.
  • Clifton Strengths testing and coaching to leverage personal strengths.
Full Job Description
SeniorUser Experience (UX)Designer

Location: Golden, CO; Indianapolis, IN; Remote  

About the Role 

Allegion's Global UX Services Team is seeking a Senior UX Designer for our Digital Order Management software portfolio. You’ll own the experience strategy, lead end-to-end design and research, and ensure design outcomes advance business objectives. Our designers collaborate daily with product managers, software engineers, researchers, customer success professionals, marketing, business leaders, and others to design, and deliver software solutions that create value to our customers and their businesses. This new role will join a broader Research and Software Solutions team, who daily seek to scale fast, drive momentum, and delight users. 

We’re looking for candidates with a growth mindset who have experience on Agile scrum teams, can drive continuous product discovery, make data-driven decisions, and cite real-world examples of how their design and research led to successful product outcomes. Above all, we seek exceptional practitioners and communicators who understand that building world-class software is a team sport. 

We are open to US-based remote employees, but are especially interested in candidates local to the Denver or Indianapolis metro areas. Some travel (up to 1–3 times per quarter) may be required.

 

Qualified candidates must be legally authorized to be employed in the United States. The company does not intend to provide sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position. 

At Allegion, we recognize that great talent and breakthrough ideas can come from anywhere. That’s why this position offers a flexible remote work arrangement, with occasional on-site visits as needed based on the role. Whether you’re working remotely or collaborating in person, we’re committed to providing the tools, support, and dynamic environment you need to succeed. At Allegion, your career thrives where innovation meets flexibility, empowering you to achieve your goals while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. 

While this is the current structure and we currently have no plans to change, we reserve the right to make changes to the remote schedule as needed at the Company’s discretion. 

 
What You’ll Do 

  • Lead end-to-end UX for complex features and journeys: produce journey maps, personas, flows, wireframes, and prototypes; present concepts and rationale to stakeholders and users. 

  • Own the experience strategy for initiatives you lead: define outcomes, success metrics, and trade-offs; align solutions to product and business priorities. 

  • Plan, run, and synthesize research across generative, formative, and summative methods (contextual inquiry, interviews, usability testing, card sorting, heuristic evaluations, etc.) and translate findings into actionable insights and prioritized recommendations. 

  • Advocate for and run post-release research and measurement; define and track KPIs (e.g., task success, SUS) and use results to inform continuous improvements. 

  • Build strong relationships, collaborate closely, and be an active participant in appropriate Scrum ceremonies with your product team(s). Collaborate with engineers to assess feasibility, perform design handoffs, and ensure the delivered experience matches the design intent. 

  • Maintain a recurring opportunity backlog and apply systems level thinking: identify scalable opportunities, validate concepts, document insights, and share outcomes with partners. 

  • Support the team’s functional excellence by maintaining individual and group tasks on the team’s Kanban board, providing candid feedback through team engagement surveys, and creating and tracking individual OKRs (objectives and key results).  

  • Participate in weekly UX Services meetings to advise, share, and critique work. Participate in bimonthly cross team demos. 

  • Mentor junior and mid-level team members in their project work and advise on their professional development. 

  • Explore new tools, patterns, and approaches (including AI-assisted design) and share learnings. 

  • Be bold and take calculated risks.  

 
What You’ll Need To Succeed  

  • 5+ years of relevant career experience or 3 years and a Master's Degree of experience in UX with a proven track record of delivering impactful insights and solutions, in a large enterprise or mature startup environment. 

  • Excellent written, storytelling, and verbal communication skills to help your teammates build empathy for user needs, understand and leverage research results, and prioritize and execute proposed design solutions.  

  • Strongproficiency in facilitating an iterative process and creating high-quality UX artifacts including customer journey maps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, research studies and readouts as evidenced by your portfolio. Ability to clearly tell the story of user needs, success metrics, and what you learned along the way.

  • Fluency with design patterns for web based and native mobile (iOS and Android) B2B & B2C software applications. 

  • Fluency with modern design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Mural, and Teams; experience with research tools like Maze, Optimal Workshop, and Qualtrics.

  • Proficiencyand/or comfortin using orexperimenting with AI-assisted tools and integrating them into design workflowssuch asFigma Make, Claude, and GPT.

  • Proven proficiency with conducting generative, formative, and/orsummative research. Strong ability ininterpreting research questions, uncovering trends in data, and creating actionable insights. 

  • Strong understanding of information architecture principles and WCAG 2.2 accessibility guidelines. 

  • Ability to operate autonomously.Strong organizational, time management, planning, and prioritization skills to manage concurrent initiatives effectively.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction,Psychology, Computer Science,or related User Experience field. Masters preferred.

What You’ll Get from Us:   

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”.   

  • A commitment to your future with a 401K plan, offering a 6% company match and no vesting period 

  • Tuition Reimbursement 

  • Unlimited PTO 

  • Employee Discounts through Perks at Work 

  • Community involvement and opportunities to give back so you can “serve others, not yourself”

  • Opportunities toleverageyour unique strengths through Clifton Strengthstesting and coaching  



Compensation:

This range is provided by Allegion. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience.

  • The expected Base Salary Range: $110,150 - $146,200.The actual compensation will be determined based on experience and

About Allegion Plc

Allegion is a global pioneer in seamless access, with leading brands like CISA®, Interflex®, LCN®, Schlage®, SimonsVoss® and Von Duprin®. Focusing on security around the door and adjacent areas, Allegion secures people and assets with a range of solutions for homes, businesses, schools and institutions. Allegion had $2.7 billion in revenue in 2020, and sells products in almost 130 countries.
Learn more about Allegion Plc
Size
11,000 employees
Market Cap
$9.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$314.3 million
5 Year Trend
+5.1%
Revenue
$2.7 billion
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