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This is a high-impact, highly visible role, you'll be the single owner of our site's visual and interaction language, setting the standard for how the Knix brand comes to life across every digital touchpoint as we scale and a chance to work on a world-class brand to showcase your UX thinking and design skills. If you are a deeply skilled, execution-focused designer who takes pride in shipping beautiful, high-performing interfaces, this role was built for you.\nAbout You:\nYou are a craftsperson first, you produce design work that is precise, considered, and visually distinctive.\n\nYou have a commercially focused design aptitude, and know how to strike a good balance between high conversion and premium brand presentation in a fast moving environment. You understand key engagement and DTC KPIs that drive funnel optimization\n\nYou have strong opinions about UI quality and can articulate and defend design decisions to stakeholders at all levels.\n\nYou move fluidly between big-picture thinking and pixel-level execution without losing momentum.\n\nYou are familiar with and utilize AI tools in order to ideate and optimize your workflow\n\nYou are proactive about identifying friction in the current experience and come armed with solutions, not just observations.\n\nYou are deeply familiar with eCommerce UX patterns and know what drives conversion, clarity, and brand trust on the web.\n\nYou thrive as a strong individual contributor and are energized by owning a design system end-to-end rather than working within one someone else built.\n\nYou communicate clearly, collaborate constructively, and manage your own workload without needing heavy oversight.\n\nAbove all, you're energized by Knix's mission and excited by the scale of the opportunity in front of us.\n\nThe Opportunity\nOwn the UX/UI direction for our Knix, KT, and MNTD from homepage to checkout, ensuring every surface reflects a cohesive, elevated, and on-brand experience.\n\nLead the upcoming redesign and ongoing optimization of key eCommerce templates, including the PDP, PLP, homepage, cart, and checkout flows.\n\nEstablish and maintain a living design system that scales across web and mobile web, serving as the source of truth for all UI components, tokens, and interaction patterns.\n\nPartner closely with eCommerce, Product, and Engineering to translate business requirements into clear, buildable design solutions delivered on time.\n\nDrive iterative UI improvements grounded in performance data, heuristic review, and competitive benchmarking, not just aesthetic preference.\n\nDevelop motion and interaction design specs for key micro-interactions, transitions, and animated elements where they enhance the customer experience. 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