Banyan Software provides the best permanent home for successful enterprise software companies, their employees, and customers. We are on a mission to acquire, build and grow great enterprise software businesses all over the world that have dominant positions in niche vertical markets. In recent years, Banyan was named the #1 fastest-growing private software company in the US on the Inc. 5000 and amongst the top 10 fastest-growing companies by the Deloitte Technology Fast 500. Founded in 2016 with a permanent capital base setup to preserve the legacy of founders, Banyan focuses on a buy and hold for life strategy for growing software companies that serve specialized vertical markets.
About the Role
We are seeking a Principal UX Designer — Enterprise Modernization to serve as the design authority within our AI-powered Application Modernization Factory.
This is not a heads-down design execution role.You will define UX patterns, standards, and modernization approaches that scale across 100+ enterprise software applications.
You will influence product owners, embedded engineering teams, and external design agencies — not just produce Figma files. Your role is to bring systems thinking, pragmatism, and speed to complex, constraint-heavy modernization efforts.
You will lead the transformation of legacy enterprise applications into intuitive, scalable, and modern experiences — leveraging AI-assisted design workflows to accelerate delivery.
You will partner closely with our elite engineering teams, including Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) and the Principal Engineer & Technical Architect, to drive transitional UI/UX flows that accommodate incremental modernization while significantly improving usability and aesthetics.
Key Responsibilities
- Design Authority & Standards: Define and enforce UX patterns, design systems, and modernization standards across multiple applications and teams.
- Legacy System Redesign: Drive the user experience redesign of outdated legacy system interfaces, applying modern usability and accessibility principles while respecting architectural and technical constraints.
- AI-Assisted Design Workflow: Utilize AI-assisted tools (e.g., Figma AI, DALL·E, Midjourney) for rapid prototyping, wireframing, visual exploration, and design acceleration, integrating with our AI-assisted SDLC practices.
- Transitional UX Strategy: Design transitional UX flows and patterns that support an incremental modernization approach, focusing on delivering value quickly and iteratively rather than complete rebuilds.
- Design System Development: Develop and maintain responsive, accessible, and scalable design systems to accelerate modernization initiatives across multiple applications.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with engineering, product, and business teams to ensure visual consistency, technical feasibility, and alignment of modernization efforts with functional and business goals.
- Experience: 10+ years in UX/UI design, with significant experience in enterprise B2B applications.
- Enterprise UX Expertise: Designing dashboards, complex data tables, multi-step workflows, and role-based access systems.
- Portfolio: Strong portfolio demonstrating before-and-after modernization projects or successful redesigns of complex legacy systems with an emphasis on data-heavy B2B applications..
- Design Tool Fluency: Expert fluency in modern design and prototyping tools (Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch).
- AI Design Experience: Demonstrated, daily AI-assisted design workflow — you must be able to describe step-by-step how you use AI tools (Figma AI, ChatGPT, Midjourney, v0, Lovable, or similar) to accelerate wireframing, prototyping, and design system creation. Casual users need not apply.
- Technical Understanding: Comfortable collaborating with developers and possessing a strong understanding of the technical realities of front-end frameworks (e.g., React, Angular, NextJS, or similar).
- Design Principles: Deep understanding of responsive design principles, accessibility standards (WCAG), and usability testing methodologies.
- Communication: Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across cross-functional teams.
- Familiarity with the challenges and constraints of large-scale application re-platforming projects.
- A pragmatic, problem-solving mindset, particularly in complex, constraint-heavy environments.
- Experience or familiarity with modern development practices leveraged by our engineering teams (Agile, DevSecOps).
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Equal Employment Opportunity at Banyan: Banyan affirms that inequality is detrimental to our Global Teams, associates, our Operating Companies, and the communities we serve. As a collective, our goal is to impact lasting change through our actions. Together, we unite for equality and equity. Banyan is committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of any protected characteristic, including race, color, genetic information, creed, national origin, religion, sex, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lawful alien status, ancestry, age, marital status, or protected veteran status and will not discriminate against anyone on the basis of a disability. We support an inclusive workplace where associates excel based on personal merit, qualifications, experience, ability, and job performance.
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