UX Architect

We're hiring a Senior UX Architect to own information architecture and structural UX across our entire product surface — new platform builds and legacy areas alike. This is a senior, horizontal role that sits just below the leadership tier and carries genuine influence over how our product is structured and how our design org thinks. 

Location: LATAM 100% Remote. Working hours are based between the CST and EST Time Zones.

About Us:

Abstra is a fast-growing, Nearshore Tech Talent services company, providing top Latin American tech talent to U.S. companies and beyond. Founded by U.S.-bred engineers with over 15 years of experience, Abstra specializes in sourcing skilled professionals across a wide range of technologies to meet our clients’ needs, driving innovation and efficiency.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own information architecture across all surfaces. Maintain a coherent IA across new and legacy platform areas. Audit existing structures, find the fracture points, and resolve them with a long-term foundation in mind. 

• Set and carry cross-swimlane UX standards. Operate horizontally across every product design swimlane, ensuring structural UX thinking is applied consistently.

• Be the quality checkpoint for prototypes. Review prototypes across product areas as a structural-integrity gate.

• Champion a blueprint-first design motion. As the org adopts a blueprint-first approach (defining what and how in low fidelity before any high-fidelity layer).

• Elevate the design practice. Coach and model what strong structural thinking looks like, leveling up the team so it builds things right from the start rather than requiring correction after the fact. 

• Build the UX foundation for AI products. Partner closely with the AI product team to ensure the UX layer is structured, scalable, and ready to support intelligent product experiences. 

• Hold platform integrity — old and new. Maintain the standard across the current platform and future builds, progressively bringing legacy areas up to standard. 

• Transfer knowledge and level the team. Spread UX architecture thinking throughout the design org, building a team that constructs correctly from the start. 
  

Required Skills & Experience:

• 8+ years of hands-on and/or managerial UX experience with deep, demonstrated expertise in information architecture and structural/systems-level SaaS design. 

• A track record of owning IA across complex, multi-surface products — including untangling fractured or legacy structures. 

• The ability to set standards and influence horizontally across multiple teams without direct authority — leadership through craft and clarity. 

• Experience establishing design processes, review practices, and reusable patterns/component foundations at scale. 

• Fluency partnering with Product and Engineering on AI or platform-level initiatives, with an eye for building UX foundations that scale. 

• The judgment to know when aesthetics are doing real structural work and when they're papering over a weak foundation. 

• Leader mentality: An excellent communicator, patient observer, and a keen feedback-giver. 

• Engineering experience (JSON, CSS, C++) / Python-ML background — a plus. 
  

What We Offer:

• Competitive compensation paid in USD.
• 20 days of paid time off (PTO) per year.
• Opportunities for professional growth and career development.
• Company-provided equipment.
• A collaborative, inclusive, and multicultural work environment.
• The opportunity to contribute to meaningful projects alongside a talented and supportive team.
  

Pre-Employment Verification

As part of our standard onboarding process, candidates who successfully complete the interview process and accept an employment offer will be required to complete an employment verification check, and background check. This process will confirm job titles and dates of employment with two previous employers and is a standard requirement for all new employees joining the company.