User Interface Visual Designer Jobs in Santa Barbara, CA

AppFolio is more than a company. We're a community of dreamers, big thinkers, problem solvers, active listeners, and multipliers. At every opportunity, we set the pace while delivering innovation built to carry real estate into the future. One in which every experience feels effortless, yet meaningful. Where customers are empowered to take on any opportunity. We show up as one team, connected by our values to be a force for good. Because together, we have the power to create extraordinary outcomes for our customers, our communities, and ourselves.

The Senior User Experience Designer will own the design of AppFolio's accounting integration surfaces -- the systems that make bank feeds, sync errors, and financial data workflows usable for the property managers and accountants who depend on them daily. This is a high-impact design role at the intersection of complex technical systems and real financial operations, where the reliability of the experience directly supports AppFolio's AI-driven accounting vision.

• Own end-to-end design of AppFolio's accounting integration surfaces, including bank feeds, credential and authentication flows, sync error states, and partial-failure recovery across banking, payroll, 1099, and external partner integrations

• Set the experience vision for the integration surface and drive it forward alongside product management and engineering

• Design for the happy path and failure states with equal rigor, translating complex technical states into clear, actionable experiences for property managers and accountants

• Collaborate with product management, engineering, and external partners to drive design decisions, facilitate critique, and surface cross-team dependencies early

• Facilitate user research to validate design decisions; in open cycles, lead discovery work to identify integration opportunities not yet pursued

• Contribute to and evolve AppFolio's design system, mentor junior designers, and push integration surfaces from functional to polished

• Help establish how design works within a new team and set patterns that will extend across AppFolio's integration portfolio

• Have strong systems thinking and experience designing for complex technical states, including sync errors, credential failures, and partial outages

• Are comfortable working on data-dense surfaces such as tables, status indicators, and exception lists, where the design challenge is information hierarchy and signal clarity

• Have a strong UX writing sensibility, particularly for error and failure states where language is as critical as the interface design

• Are an effective communicator and collaborator with experience driving design decisions across engineering, product management, and external partners

• Have experience measuring the impact of design work and using product analytics to inform ongoing improvements

• Minimum of 5 years of experience designing complex, state-based workflows where failure states are a core part of the job; fintech is preferred, with adjacent domains including payroll, tax, insurance, healthcare revenue cycle, developer tools, identity and authentication, or data platforms also considered

• A portfolio demonstrating design process, judgment, and impact in complex technical domains, including edge cases and failure states

• Experience designing credential or authentication flows, error states, or data synchronization surfaces in contexts where you do not control the full stack

• Experience designing data-dense interfaces where information hierarchy is the primary design challenge

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The compensation that we reasonably expect to pay for this role is: $125,600 - $157,000. The actual compensation for this role will be determined by a variety of factors, including but not limited to the candidate's skills, education, experience, and internal equity.

Please note that compensation is just one aspect of a comprehensive Total Rewards package. The compensation range listed here does not include additional benefits or any discretionary bonuses you may be eligible for based on your role and/or employment type.

Regular full-time employees are eligible for benefits.