Senior UX Designer, Later
$145-165k
OTE
Influencer marketing and social media management
Open for applications
Influencer marketing and social media management
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$145-165k
OTE
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help the world's top brands create high-performing social content and collaborate with creators to reach new audiences, drive engagement, and generate predictable ROI.
Role
Who you are
- This role is ideal for someone who thrives with autonomy, brings a strategic and tactical mindset, and has a deep understanding of data-rich, modular design systems
- 6+ years of experience in UX or Product Design, with a strong focus on B2B, data-rich, or platform products
- Proven experience designing complex products and solving ambiguous, multi-dimensional usability challenges
- Demonstrated ability to break down large, unclear problems into structured phases and drive them through to delivery
- Strong track record of owning end-to-end UX for a product area, from discovery through execution and iteration
- Deep expertise in Figma and component-based design, including auto-layout, shared libraries, and design systems
- Experience designing and scaling dashboards, analytics, and reporting interfaces
- Comfort working in fast-paced, agile product environments with shifting priorities
- Strong visual, verbal, and written communication skills, with the ability to clearly present and defend design decisions
- Familiarity with marketing workflows, social analytics, and creator or influencer ecosystems is a strong asset
- You’re proactive and results-driven, always taking initiative, aligning your actions with company goals, and delivering consistent outcomes
- Strategic and forward-thinking, you balance immediate needs with long-term opportunities to drive impactful, innovative results
- Your curiosity fuels success, keeping you sharp on industry trends, competition, and our cross-functional business dynamics
- Adaptable and resourceful, you handle shifting priorities with ease, manage your time effectively, and know when to ask for support
- You share insights to help the team stay ahead and make informed decisions
- You bring positivity and resilience to every challenge, tackling obstacles with grit and optimism that inspires those around you
- You lead with emotional intelligence, building trust, supporting others, encouraging growth, and fostering strong relationships through empathy and collaboration
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior UX Designer to join our team and lead the end-to-end design of key products within our marketing and social analytics ecosystem.
- The designer will be responsible for shaping scalable, intuitive, and highly functional user experiences that power our tools used by brands, creators, and internal stakeholders
- We operate in a fast-paced environment focused on influencer marketing, social media analytics, and campaign performance measurement. Our products span dashboards, reporting tools, and creator engagement platforms—all centered around data visualization, marketing insights, and social commerce trends
- Own UX strategy for a core product area, translating business goals, technical constraints, and user needs into clear experience principles and design direction
- Partner with Product Management to influence roadmap priorities through user insight, usability considerations, and long-term experience thinking
- Balance short-term delivery with scalable, future-ready design decisions that support product growth and evolution
- Design end-to-end user experiences for data-intensive B2B products, including dashboards, reporting tools, campaign workflows, and analytics interfaces
- Translate complex data, metrics, and workflows into clear, intuitive, and actionable user experiences
- Drive iterative, data-informed design decisions aligned with agile development cycles
- Lead high-quality execution in Figma, building and maintaining component-based, implementation-ready designs using auto-layout, tokens, and shared variables
- Contribute to and evolve the design system to support modularity, consistency, and development efficiency
- Partner closely with front-end engineers to ensure seamless design-to-development handoff and high-fidelity implementation
- Collaborate deeply with Product Managers, front-end developers, data scientists, and research partners to deliver cohesive, high-impact solutions
- Act as a UX thought partner across initiatives, ensuring consistency and quality across shared surfaces and experiences
- Lead and support other designers on shared projects, providing feedback, guidance, and alignment where needed
- Partner with research and data science teams to incorporate qualitative and quantitative user insights into design decisions
- Stay current on social media trends, marketing workflows, and creator/influencer ecosystems to inform product design
- Continuously raise the bar on UX quality, accessibility, and usability through best practices and experimentation
- What success looks like
- Users can easily understand, navigate, and act on complex data within Later’s dashboards and reporting tools
- Design solutions scale effectively across products through strong systems, components, and patterns
- Product teams ship faster and with higher confidence due to clear, implementation-ready design assets
- UX decisions are informed by research, data, and business context—not just opinion
- Cross-functional partners view you as a trusted expert who elevates product thinking and execution
Our take
Platforms like Instagram, Pinterest, and TikTok have become indispensable for businesses of all sizes, shaping their marketing strategies and driving success. Later specializes in assisting customers in navigating these channels. Offering a visually oriented suite of tools, the marketing platform enables marketing managers to schedule, analyze, and track sales from their content effectively.
Focusing on small businesses, Later is doubling down on its strategy, aiming to provide additional products tailored for marketers at these enterprises while expanding its geographic reach. This expansion of product capabilities not only caters to the evolving needs of small businesses but also helps Later mitigate platform risk from social media companies mimicking its services. Partnerships with platforms like TikTok and Instagram, featuring post scheduling, analytics, and conversation tools, showcase Later's commitment to innovation and staying ahead in the competitive landscape.
Now, the company is entering an exciting new chapter with updates designed to help marketers and creators stay ahead of what's next in social. The platform now offers enhanced analytics, improved collaboration tools, expanded support for platforms like Threads and Snapchat, and smarter insights through innovations such as Future Trends. These developments show Later's commitment to making social media management more intuitive, data-driven, and impactful so brands and creators can build stronger connections and lead the next era in social storytelling.
Steph
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Insights
6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jan 2015
$1.2m
SEED
Dec 2014
$1.3m
SEED
Total funding: $3.8m
Company benefits
- Learning & development opportunities
- Market competitive compensation
- Hybrid work environment
- Flexible paid time off
- Competitive healthcare benefits
Company HQ
Government Center, Boston, MA
Leadership
Scott Sutton
(CEO)Scott joined lAter in 2023 as COO, becoming CEO in 2024. Previously, he spent 4 years at ZoomInfo, joining as VP of Revenue Operations before becoming Senior VP of Operations and then CBO.
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