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At Allegion, we help keep the people you know and love safe and secure where they live, work and visit. With more than 40 brands, 14,000+ employees globally and products sold in 130 countries, we specialize in security around the doorway and beyond. Additionally, Allegion is proud to be recognized with the 2026 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award (GEWA) for the third consecutive year, earning distinction in both the employee engagement and strengths categories. This year, Allegion also received Gallupโs With Distinction honor โ a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.
Golden CO 500 Golden Ridge Senior User Experience (UX) Designer
Location: Golden, CO; Indianapolis, IN; Remote
About the Role
Allegionโs Global UX Services Team is seeking a Senior UX Designer for our Digital Order Management software portfolio. Youโll 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. Weโre looking for candidates with a growth mindset who have experience on Agile scrum teams, can drive continuous product discovery, make dataโdriven decisions, and cite realโworld examples of how their design and research led to successful product outcomes. Above all, we seek exceptional practitioners and communicators who understand that building worldโclass software is a team sport.
We are open to USโbased remote employees, but are especially interested in candidates local to the Denver or Indianapolis metro areas. Some travel (up to 1โ3 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., Hโ1B, TN, etc.) for this employment position. At Allegion, we recognize that great talent and breakthrough ideas can come from anywhere. Thatโs why this position offers a flexible remote work arrangement, with occasional onโsite visits as needed based on the role. Whether youโre working remotely or collaborating in person, weโre 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 workโlife 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 Companyโs discretion.
What Youโll 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 tradeโoffs; 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 postโrelease 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 teamโs functional excellence by maintaining individual and group tasks on the teamโs 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 midโlevel team members in their project work and advise on their professional development.
- Explore new tools, patterns, and approaches (including AIโassisted design) and share learnings.
- Be bold and take calculated risks.
What Youโll 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.
- Strong proficiency in facilitating an iterative process and creating highโquality 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.
- Proficiency and/or comfort in using or experimenting with AIโassisted tools and integrating them into design workflows such as Figma Make, Claude, and GPT.
- Proven proficiency with conducting generative, formative, and/or summative research.
- Strong ability in interpreting 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.
- Bachelorโs degree in Interaction Design, HumanโComputer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or related User Experience field. Masters preferred.
Why Work For Us?
Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if: Youโre seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others. With thousands of employees and customers around the world, thereโs plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, โthis is your business, run with itโ. Youโre looking for a company that will invest in your professional development. As we grow, we want you to grow with us.
You want a culture that promotes workโlife balance. Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!
What Youโll Get from Us
- Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage, helping you โbe safe, be healthyโ.
- 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 โserve others, not yourselfโ.
- Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through Clifton Strengths testing 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 other factors permitted by law. Bonus Eligible: Yes
We Celebrate Who We Are
Allegion is committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive workplace. Together, we embrace all differences and similarities among colleagues, as well as the differences and similarities within the relationships that we foster with customers, suppliers and the communities where we live and work. Whatever your background, experience, race, color, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, disability status, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law, we will make sure that you have every opportunity to impress us in your application and the opportunity to give your best at work, not because weโre required to, but because itโs the right thing to do.
We are also committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. If for any reason you cannot apply through our career site and require an accommodation or assistance, please contact our Talent Acquisition Team.
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