Senior User Experience Designer, Ontra
$167-240k
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AI-powered contract automation for private markets
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AI-powered contract automation for private markets
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$167-240k
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To clear the operational fog for GPs by transforming unstructured information into insight, action, and automation.
Role
Who you are
- If you are a highly empathetic Senior User Experience Designer who thrives on user-focused design, embraces emerging AI technologies to elevate user experiences, and collaborates seamlessly with multidisciplinary teams, we'd love to get to know you!
- Experience: 5+ years in user experience design
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to understand and focus on the rationale and outcomes behind design work
- User Research: Experience in conducting user research, leading calls, and utilizing qualitative and quantitative data to guide UX decisions
- Prototyping Skills: Proficiency in creating prototypes, with experience in tools such as Figma, Axure, or similar platforms being an advantage
- Systematic Design: Ability to design with a component library and usability best practices in mind
- User-Centered Focus: Emphasis on creating simple, intuitive, and easy-to-use experiences rather than focusing on flashy, creative UI
- Agile Collaboration: Experience working in an agile environment, with flexibility and ability to collaborate across various teams
- AI Fluency: Comfortable leveraging AI tools to enhance research, ideation, prototyping, and workflow efficiency
What the job involves
- Ontra is seeking a Senior UX Designer reporting to our Director, UX
- We’re looking for someone excited to champion user insights and drive value by exploring user behavior and feedback, masterfully demo and understand product facets within the Ontra ecosystem, strategically prioritize innovative features while staying ahead of industry trends, and lead a team in delivering seamless, well-designed user experiences
- User Research and Insight Gathering: Lead efforts to analyze user behavior and gather customer feedback to identify opportunities for enhancing customer value
- Product Mastery: Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the product, its features, and value propositions, while understanding its relationship with the broader Ontra ecosystem
- Strategic Collaboration: Advocate for and contribute to setting and achieving OKRs, prioritize new features and improvements, and maintain awareness of competitor and industry trends to inform product decisions
- Team Leadership: Empower and guide team members to deliver exceptional user experiences, ensuring alignment on customer problems to solve and celebrating team achievements
- UX Design and Innovation: Utilize the design system effectively to streamline UI, leverage AI for optimizing task efficiency, and engage in rapid prototyping for quick iteration and validation
- Cross-Functional Partnership: Build strong relationships with teams across Customer Success, Marketing, and Sales to ensure cohesive and consistent user experiences
- Strategic Design Partner: Collaborate with an empowered product team to directly influence the product's strategic direction
- High IQ, high EQ: Partner with high-performing colleagues who are a joy to work with
- AI Everywhere: You’ll build products with AI at their core, inventing experiences and capabilities that have never before been possible
- Career Growth: We intentionally develop our teammates and often promote from within. A significant portion of the design team has advanced within Ontra
- Remote Work: An engaging remote culture with regular team meetups
Our take
The private markets have grown rapidly, but operational complexity and regulatory demands have grown too. Firms face high-volume legal work, compliance obligations, and fragmented workflows hat slow deal-making and fund management. Founded in 2014, Ontra offers AI solutions built specifically for these challenges.
Ontra combines AI with a global network of legal experts to turn complex, document-heavy processes into actionable intelligence. It automates contract review, obligation tracking, entity management, due diligence, and compliance workflows, reducing manual work and letting teams focus on higher-value decisions. And by providing accurate, industry-specific insights without requiring customers to configure AI models, Ontra has helped firms work more efficiently and with less risk.
Serving over 1,000 firms globally (including 9 of the top 10 private equity firms), Ontra has processed more than 2M documents and continues expanding its product suite. Recent launched include AI tools for credit management, due diligence questionnaires, and human-in0the-loop KYC services. Alongside this, it recently acquired some serious funding, putting it a might strong position going forward.
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Insights
81% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Oct 2021
$200m
SERIES B
Jan 2019
$40m
SERIES A
Total funding: $240m
Company benefits
- Remote Flexibility: At Ontra, we’re invested in your success, and our total rewards package is designed to help you reach your full potential. Embrace our remote-first work environment with generous reimbursements for work-from-home equipment, coworking, phone, and internet.
- Unlock Your Potential: Tap into opportunities for continuous learning, mentorship, and role-specific development through our learning platforms, industry conferences, employee resource groups, plus in-person and virtual company events.
- Life Moments Covered: We’re here to support you when life happens. Whether it’s a vacation you’ve been looking forward to, a medical situation you need to take care of, a new addition to your family, or another important life moment, we’ve got you covered.
Company HQ
Union Square, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Troy Pospisil
(Co-Founder & CEO)Majored in Economics at NYU before joining Deloitte as a Management Consultant. Was an Investment Professional at H.I.G. Capital.
Ben Levi
(Co-Founder & COO)Studied at Yale and Harvard Law School, and worked on Obama's 2008 campaign. Was an Associate at Kirkland & Ellis and founded Saas company Tembo.
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