Senior UX Designer

Senior UX Designer

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Oritain is the global leader in product verification, with locations in Auckland, Dunedin, London, Singapore and Washington D.C.

Protecting people and the planet by harnessing science, technology and services to build a community of origin verified suppliers and buyers.

As a Senior UX Designer, you will be responsible for ensuring our technology platform is not only functional but truly empowering and intuitive for our global users. Your mission is to take complex scientific and supply chain verification data and transform it into seamless, trustworthy, and actionable digital experiences.

We are seeking a full stack UX leader who combines design vision with the ability to prototype, experiment, and deliver. You’ll leverage modern tools to turn concepts into reality, ensuring every solution is validated and impactful.

• Play a key role in shaping and evolving UX strategy across interconnected products and services, working closely with product and engineering leadership to ensure alignment with business objectives.
• Help define enterprise-level experiences that span multiple platforms, workflows, and client-facing systems, contributing systems thinking and a holistic perspective.
• Contribute to the development and maintenance of design standards and governance frameworks, championing consistency, accessibility, and quality across the product ecosystem.
• Drive adoption of scalable design systems and unified information architecture, supporting complex data flows and multi-platform user journeys in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Influence product and engineering decisions through UX advocacy, ensuring design excellence is considered in both strategic planning and day‑to‑day delivery.
• Own the Research Function:
  Plan, conduct, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative user research, including interviews, usability testing, surveys, and competitive analysis, to deeply understand user goals, pain points, and mental models across the supply chain.
• Insights to Action:
  Translate research insights into clear, prioritised UX recommendations and design strategies that align with both business goals and technical feasibility. Champion user understanding within the product discipline and help shape roadmap priorities.
• Stakeholder Alignment:
  Effectively communicate the rationale behind design decisions and UX strategy to product leadership and the wider engineering team.
• Design Lifecycle:
  Lead the design process from concept through delivery, utilising tools such as sketching, wire framing, user flows, service blueprints, and information architecture mapping. Apply systems thinking to design scalable experiences across complex ecosystems.
• AI‑Driven Prototyping & Rapid Iteration:
  Leverage AI‑powered prototyping tools and natural language workflows to accelerate the design process, enabling rapid exploration, validation, and refinement of user experiences.
• Complex Data Communication:
  Develop innovative and clear solutions for visualising and communicating complex data (e.g., scientific verification results, supply chain mapping) in ways that are meaningful, contextual, and actionable for our professional users.
• Accessibility:
  Ensure all designs adhere to modern accessibility standards (WCAG) and best practices for usability and performance.
• System Thinking:
  Architect intuitive, traceable, and scalable data flows across diverse user journeys. Design with purpose, ensuring every interaction reflects our commitment to integrity, transparency, and service reliability.
• Feedback and
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Embrace feedback and iteration as tools for continuous improvement. Share credit for team successes and design outcomes, recognising the contributions of others.
• Design System Ownership:
  Own, maintain, and evolve our corporate Design System, ensuring consistency, high quality, and efficiency across all digital products.
• High‑Fidelity Prototyping:
  Deliver polished, production‑ready design specifications, including component libraries, visual assets, and detailed interaction models.
• Modern Platform Proficiency:
  Utilize platforms…