About the Role

We’re looking for a UX/UI Designer who’s excited to help shape and elevate the digital shopping experience on Ariat.com. This role blends strong UI design skills with design system experience and a knack for using both qualitative and quantitative insights to guide decisions.

You’ll join a collaborative, small-but-mighty UX/UI team where everyone contributes ideas, keeps work moving, and looks for ways to make the site experience cleaner, faster, and more consistent. The right candidate is curious, resourceful, and motivated to both execute high-quality work and raise their hand when they see opportunities for improvement.

How We Work as a Team: Our team thrives on being hands-on, collaborative, and solution-focused. We look for opportunities rather than waiting for tasks. We balance execution with idea generation — small polish fixes matter as much as big initiatives. We keep design consistent across the funnel through our design system. We use data and research to back up our design decisions. We communicate openly, share progress, and flag blockers early. You’ll be encouraged to take ownership, contribute your perspective, and make an impact without needing layers of approval. You’ll be encouraged to take ownership, contribute your perspective, and make an impact without needing layers of approval.

You’ll Make a Difference By

• Designing modern, brand-consistent UI across the entire Ariat.com experience.
• Building, refining, and documenting components in Ariat’s design system.
• Using usability testing, FullStory, analytics, and benchmarking to inform decisions.
• Proactively surfacing site enhancements or test ideas from polish fixes to backlog items to small experiments.
• Creating wireframes, prototypes, and final designs that clearly communicate solutions across teams.
• Supporting Ariat’s AI UX research hub with insights tied to customer needs.
• Partnering with engineers and cross-functional teams to see design intent through to delivery.
• Helping track competitive trends and benchmarking insights.
• Experimenting with AI tools that can accelerate research, prototyping, or design exploration.
• Other duties as assigned.

About You

• 3+ years of professional UX/UI design experience in the eCommerce or digital product space.
• A portfolio showing polish, detail, and consistency with a UI focus, supported by reasoning or research.
• Proficiency in Figma; Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator is a plus.
• Experience contributing to or managing design systems.
• Familiarity with tools like FullStory, Google Analytics, or PlaybookUX.
• Comfort applying insights from usability testing, interviews, or analytics.
• Familiarity with Jira or similar workflows to help keep projects on track.
• A proactive approach and someone who takes initiative and spots opportunities.
• Strong communication skills; able to explain and advocate for design choices.
• Interest in how AI can enhance UX research, prototyping, or design exploration.
• Bachelor’s degree in a design related field or equivalent/relevant work experience.

About Ariat

Ariat is an innovative, outdoor global brand with roots in equestrian performance. We develop high-quality footwear and apparel for people who ride, work, and play outdoors, and care about performance, quality, comfort, and style.

The salary range for this position is $80,000 - $90,000 per year.

The salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data for geographic locations. Ariat in good faith believes that this posted compensation range is accurate for this role at this location at the time of this posting. This range may be modified in the future.

Ariat’s holistic benefits package for full-time team members includes (but is not limited to):

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance options
• Expanded wellness and mental health benefits
• Paid time off (PTO), paid holidays, and paid volunteer days
• 401(k) with company match
• Bonus incentive plans
• Team member discount on Ariat merchandise

Note: Availability of benefits may be subject to location & employment type and may have certain eligibility requirements. Ariat reserves the right to alter these benefits in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

Ariat will consider qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with state and local laws. Ariat is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetics or any other basis protected under federal, state, or local law. Ariat is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities. If you need an accommodation during the application process, email [email protected].

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Please note that Ariat does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of a signed Agreement, Ariat will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter/agency placement fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without a previously signed Agreement, Ariat explicitly reserves the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Ariat.