Lead UX Designer
Creating Peace of Mind by Pioneering Safety and Security
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 Gallup’s With Distinction honor - a designation reserved for a select group of organizations that go above and beyond in building exceptional workplace cultures.
Lead User Experience (UX) Designer
Location:Golden, CO; Indianapolis, IN; Remote
About the Role
Allegion's Global UX Services Team is seeking a Lead UX Designer to drive the design direction for Digital Order Management's Hollow Metal product team and its most significant user journeys. You'll lead end-to-end design and research, be trusted to solve our highest-stakes design problems, guide the team through ambiguity, and ensure solutions are user-centered and strategically aligned. 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 role will join a broader Research and Software Solutions team, who daily seek to scale fast, drive momentum, and delight users.
We’re looking for candidates with a growth mindset who have a proven track record of leading complex, cross-functional initiatives, driving product discovery and an evidence based vision, and cite real-world examples of how their design and research leadership led to successful product outcomes. Above all, we seek exceptional practitioners and communicators who understand that building world-class software is a team sport.
We are open to US-based remote employees, but are especially interested in candidates local to the Denver or Indianapolis metro areas. Some travel (up to 1-3 times per quarter) may be required.
What You’ll Do
- Own the experience strategy and end-to-end design and research for all Hollow Metal efforts. Lead complex initiatives spanning multiple features, workflows, and product experiences within Hollow Metal and beyond, and make sure every decision ladders up to product objectives and business goals.
- Craft and drive a forward-looking product vision, leveraging generative research to inform the roadmap; own a recurring opportunity backlog, surfacing scalable opportunities, validating concepts, and sharing outcomes with partners.
- Own the measurable impact of your work: define and track design and experience KPIs that drive outcomes and inform prioritization and roadmaps.
- Keep experiences evidence informed. 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.
- Build strong partnerships and drive consensus across diverse stakeholder groups. Facilitate decision-making, promote collaboration, and partner continually with product, engineering, and delivery leadership to ensure feasibility and the highest quality experiences are delivered to our users.
- Define, validate, and maintain the information architecture and design standards that guide your team's work.
- Extend the design system into reusable assets and processes that raise consistency across your product team.
- Represent UX Services on cross-functional initiatives as needed, translating stakeholder needs into a clear approach focused on solving the right problems in the right way for users.
- Set the bar for accessibility (WCAG 2.2) and design quality across everything you lead.
- Build a culture of innovation on your team by exploring and responsibly adopting advanced AI-assisted design practices and tools, and sharing what you learn to raise the bar for how the team works.
- Shape team ceremonies, including weekly critiques and bimonthly cross-team demos, modeling the storytelling and design rationale others learn from.
- Mentor designers on your team, sharpening their craft through hands-on guidance, design-quality feedback, and career development.
- Be bold and take calculated risks.
What You’ll Need To Succeed
- 5+ years of relevant career experience in UX design, with a proven track record of leading design work across multiple features, workflows, or product experiences, in a large enterprise or mature startup environment. Relevant years of experience may be lower with higher educational qualifications.
- Exceptional written, storytelling, and verbal communication skills; ability to align stakeholders and communicate experience strategy clearly.
- Demonstrated strength and success in UX craft and versatility across design disciplines (interaction design, visual design, strategy, and research) as evidenced by a strong portfolio showcasing your ability to solve complex problems and measure solution impact.
- Proven ability to define experience strategy for major product areas and establish standards other designers can apply.
- Strong proficiency in facilitating an iterative process and creating high-quality 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 the impact is to the business.
- Strong 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.
- Strong aptitude for mentoring junior and mid-career design staff as well as collaboratively coaching cross-functional product, development, and marketing peers. Experience in fostering a culture of continuous learning.
- Mastery with design patterns for web-based and native mobile (iOS and Android) B2B & B2C software applications.
- Mastery of modern design and collaboration tools such as Figma, Mural, and Teams; experience with research tools like Maze, Optimal Workshop, and Qualtrics. Comfort integrating AI-assisted tools such as Figma Make, Claude, and GPT into design workflows.
- Navigate ambiguity and high-stakes problems autonomously, with the organizational rigor and prioritization skills to run multiple initiatives at once without missing a beat.
- Bachelor’s degree in Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Psychology, Computer Science, or related User Experience field. Master’s preferred.
Why Work For Us?
Allegion is a Great Place to Grow your Career if:
- You're seeking a rewarding opportunity that allows you to truly help others.With thousands of employees and customers around the world, there’s plenty of room to make an impact. As our values state, “this is your business, run with it”.
- You’re 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 work-life balance.Our employees enjoy generous paid time off, because at Allegion we recognize that you have a full life outside of work!
What You’ll Get from Us:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage, helping you “be safe, be healthy”.
- 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 “serve others, not yourself”
- Opportunities to leverage your unique strengths through Clifton Strengthstesting 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.
Not sure if your experience perfectly aligns with the role? Studies have shown that some people are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification and every single preferred qualification of a job posting. At Allegion, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. So, if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every item in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this role!
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 we’re required to, but because it’s 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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