Why you'll LOVE Sagent:
You could work anywhere. We know you are talented and looking for something inspiring and impactful. A place where you will make a difference and have a great time doing it!
By choosing Sagent, you can be part of our mission to make loans and homeownership simpler and safer for all consumers.
Sagent powers servicers and consumers. You power Sagent!
Overview
Sagent is a leading mortgage servicing, SaaS-based, financial technology company that thrives on innovation and excellence. We’re looking for a Principal UI Designer to lead, scale, and evolve our design system as it extends across our enterprise product ecosystem. You’ll ensure consistency, usability, and accessibility while driving innovation in our UI components, patterns, and guidelines. You’ll collaborate closely with product designers, engineers, and stakeholders to expand and maintain a robust design system that balances structure with flexibility. While deep coding expertise isn’t required, you should be comfortable reading and understanding code to bridge the gap between design and development effectively.
Your Day-To-Day at Sagent
- Own and scale the Figma design system to support a growing enterprise ecosystem.
- Define and maintain UI components, patterns, and documentation that empower designers and developers.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure seamless design-to-code implementation (you don’t need to write production code, but you should understand how it works).
- Advocate for best practices in accessibility, scalability, and performance across all UI elements.
- Work closely with product designers to align system components with evolving user needs while maintaining visual and functional consistency.
- Standardize workflows for contribution, governance, and adoption of new design patterns.
- Conduct design audits and proactively address inconsistencies or gaps in the system.
- Serve as a champion of design system adoption, educating teams across the company.
- Stay up to date on industry trends, tools, and frameworks to continuously evolve our system.
We Would Love to Hear From You if You Have:
- 7+ years of experience in UI design, with at least 4 years focused on design systems (enterprise-scale experience is a big plus). Experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Strong understanding of UI development principles—you can read HTML, CSS, and some JavaScript, even if you’re not writing production code.
- Deep experience with design tools (Figma, Sketch, etc.) and design system management tools (Storybook)
- Familiarity with component-based design, token-based theming, and front-end frameworks (React, Vue, etc.).
- A solid grasp of accessibility standards (WCAG, ARIA) and usability principles.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams, especially engineering and product.
- Excellent communication skills—you can advocate for the design system and explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- A problem-solving mindset with a passion for creating scalable, maintainable, and user-friendly design solutions.
Additional Skills & Preferred Knowledge
- Experience with enterprise SaaS or B2B products.
- Prior work on multi-brand, multi-platform design systems.
- Working knowledge of React/Vue
- Knowledge of design tokens and their implementation in modern front-end frameworks.
Why Join Us?
- High-impact role: You’ll directly shape a design system that supports an entire enterprise ecosystem.
- Collaboration at scale: Work with talented designers, engineers, and product teams to build something lasting.
- Room to grow: We value expertise and innovation, and we’re excited to see what you’ll bring to the team. If you’re passionate about scaling design systems, bridging the gap between design and development, and creating a seamless UI experience across enterprise products, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now and help us shape the future of our design system.
Perks!
As a Sagent Associate, you will be eligible to participate in our benefit programs beginning on Day #1! We offer a comprehensive package including Remote/Hybrid workplace options, Health Benefits, Unlimited Flexible Time Off, Family Planning Services, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Family Leave, 401(k) Matching, Pet Insurance, LinkedIn Learning, Virtual Social Experiences, Career Pathing, Focus Time Fridays and much, much more!
Why Sagent?
Sagent is transforming the mortgage servicing industry by bringing the modern experience customers now expect from loan originations to loan servicing. Our platform lets customers manage their home-owing lives from anywhere while giving servicers lower costs, scale compliance and higher servicing values through full market cycles.
Sagent is a joint venture that combines Fiserv Inc.'s decades of market-leading fintech expertise with Warburg Pincus' skill in growing technology companies. We hire innovators and doers to disrupt the last and most complex frontier of lending and housing. We're growing fast and need you to help shape our future.
Sagent is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
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