MRI Software

User Experience Lead

MRI Software$100K — $130K *
Enterprise Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7-12+ years UX experience with proven initiative ownership.
  • Ability to manage design work across multiple teams.
  • Strong mentorship skills, fostering designer development.
  • Hands-on design skills complemented by coordination expertise.
  • Exceptional communication in design and stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

  • Define and communicate a shared UX vision across initiatives.
  • Coordinate design work and manage delivery dependencies.
  • Ensure final design quality and accessibility standards are met.
  • Contribute actively to complex design areas as needed.
  • Mentor and develop design teams through coaching and critique.
  • Drive the incorporation of AI in design workflows while ensuring quality standards.

Benefits

  • Participation in employee-led groups focusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
  • Comprehensive medical coverage with HSA benefits.
  • Competitive 401k plan for future financial security.
  • Generous parental leave program for new parents.
  • 20 days PTO plus holidays and flexibility with 15 hours of Flexi time.
  • Tuition reimbursement to support professional development.
  • Flexible remote work options for two weeks annually.
Full Job Description
Job Summary / Objective

Player-coach who owns initiative outcomes, balances throughput, and is accountable for vision and quality of delivered solutions.

UX Job Family Overview

User Experience (UX) roles design and validate user-centered experiences for complex enterprise software. Across levels, the work spans discovery (research and synthesis), design (information architecture, interaction design, prototyping), documentation (wireframes/specifications), and validation (usability testing and iteration). AI is used to accelerate evidence capture, synthesis, ideation, and delivery-while maintaining responsible, transparent, and user-trustworthy outcomes.

Core Work Domains
  • Discovery & Research (plan, conduct, synthesize)
  • Design & Prototyping (flows, IA, interactions, prototypes)
  • Documentation & Handoff (specs, annotations, acceptance criteria support)
  • Validation (usability testing, iteration, quality verification)
  • Standards (accessibility, consistency, design system usage)
  • AI Acceleration (synthesis, ideation, workflow automation with guardrails)


Level Scope & Accountability
  • Scope: Major initiatives and cross-team delivery outcomes.
  • Design Responsibility: final UX quality gate for initiative; owns delivery trade-offs with product/engineering partners.
  • Typical experience guidance: 7-12+ years with proven initiative ownership and mentorship.


Key Responsibilities
  • Define, ensure alignment, and communicate a shared UX vision across the initiative or product family, bringing together multiple workstreams into a cohesive experience direction.
  • Drive throughput: break down work, assign/coordinate across designers, and manage delivery dependencies.
  • Provide final design review and quality gate across the initiative; ensure consistency and accessibility.
  • Contribute hands-on to complex/high-risk areas; unblock delivery as needed.
  • Mentor heavily: coaching, critique leadership, skill development and confidence building.
  • Lead adoption of AI-enabled workflows for the initiative while enforcing quality guardrails.


AI & Innovation Expectations

Lead adoption
  • Lead adoption of AI-enabled workflows across the initiative. Identify high-value opportunities to accelerate delivery through AI while maintaining the quality and coherence of the user experience.
  • Actively encourage the team to use AI tools for realistic prototyping; ensure this capability is supported, practiced, and evaluated as part of the initiative's design workflow.


Enforce quality
  • Define and enforce guardrails for AI use within the team - what requires human review, what can be AI-accelerated, and what should not be AI-assisted. Hold the quality gate on AI-assisted work that ships.


Develop capability
  • Coach and develop team AI fluency. Ensure designers have the skills and judgment to use AI tools responsibly and effectively - not just efficiently.


Responsible use
  • Maintain accountability for AI-assisted work across the initiative. Ensure outputs are traceable, validated, and meet quality, accessibility, and user trust standards before shipping


Required Qualifications
  • Demonstrated ability to own end-to-end UX quality across a major initiative or product family, with accountability for outcomes.
  • Experience coordinating design work across multiple designers or workstreams - breaking down work, managing dependencies, unblocking delivery.
  • Strong mentorship track record; able to develop designer capability, build confidence, and lead critique culture.
  • Balances hands-on design contribution with initiative-level coordination and stakeholder alignment simultaneously.
  • Sets the standard for design communication across the initiative - from critique and feedback to stakeholder alignment and delivery trade-offs.


Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience running design programs or initiatives spanning multiple teams or product areas.
  • History of improving team delivery practices - review cadence, critique quality, handoff consistency.
  • Experience working within or enforcing design system governance across teams.
  • Familiarity with AI-enabled design workflows and experience governing their responsible use.
  • Experience with resource planning or capacity management for a design function.


Success Measures
  • Initiatives deliver high-quality UX outcomes on time with reduced rework.
  • Teams move faster due to clear direction, strong reviews, and effective work coordination.
  • Design capability increases through mentorship and strong feedback loops.


We're obsessed with making this the best job you've ever had!

We want our teams to love working here, so we've created some incredible perks for you to enjoy:
  • Join our employee-led groups to maximize your experience at work such as our Diversity, Equity and Inclusion committee, employee resource groups such as Women and Allies, and our Pride Event Group
  • Enjoy peace of mind over yours and your family's health with our medical coverage options and HSA benefit
  • Invest in our competitive 401k plan and help set you up for your future
  • Big on family? So are we! We understand family is important and being able to spend quality time with your family is a wonderful experience. Our Parental Leave Program is designed to give you the opportunity to spend even more time with your new arrival(s)
  • Enjoy a fantastic work-life balance with 20 days PTO plus observed Holidays, plus 15 hours of 'Flexi' time a year
  • Further your professional development and growth with our generous Tuition Reimbursement offerings
  • Enjoy the flexibility of working from anywhere in the world for two weeks out of the year


About MRI Software

MRI Software is a leading provider of innovative real estate software applications and hosted solutions. MRI's comprehensive and flexible technology platform coupled with an open and connected ecosystem meets the unique needs of real estate businesses?from property-level management and accounting to investment modeling and analytics for the global commercial and residential markets. MRI Software is headquartered in Solon, Ohio, with offices in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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