Web Designer at Hex

Hex is seeking a highly creative and experienced Web Designer to lead the design and development of its digital platforms. The role will involve managing the visual design and user experience of Hex’s website, documentation platform, product launches, and emerging digital experiences.

This is a hands-on creative position that requires taking projects from initial concepts to final delivery.

The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining exceptional standards in visual design, user experience, typography, interaction design, and overall digital presentation.

You will also contribute significantly to how Hex communicates its products and services to customers.

Working alongside the Product Marketing, Content, and Product teams, you will transform complex technical concepts into engaging, understandable, and visually compelling experiences.

Although the wider marketing and content strategy will involve collaboration across departments, you will take ownership of the design and UX direction of Hex’s digital platforms, ensuring that information architecture, visual presentation, interactive elements, and product storytelling work together effectively.

Key Responsibilities

1. Web Design and Digital Experience

• Lead the design and user experience of Hex’s corporate website, documentation platform, marketing campaigns, and other digital properties.
• Develop visually impressive and user-friendly digital experiences, managing projects from initial research and conceptualization through implementation and launch.
• Establish and maintain consistent design standards, visual guidelines, interaction patterns, and quality benchmarks across all web platforms.
• Continuously improve existing digital experiences, ensuring that websites and other platforms evolve alongside business and product requirements.
• Work closely with the Marketing team to establish web priorities while providing leadership on user experience, information hierarchy, visual presentation, and interaction design.
• Combine scalable design systems with creative, customized experiences that communicate the brand’s identity and product value.

2. Product Launches and Brand Storytelling

• Direct the visual design and creative execution of major product launches in collaboration with Brand and Product Marketing teams.
• Convert complex product features and technical capabilities into engaging visual presentations that are easy for audiences to understand.
• Participate in early-stage launch planning, providing creative direction and recommendations on how products and new features should be presented.
• Develop effective ways to showcase Hex’s products through interface designs, screenshots, demonstrations, illustrations, diagrams, animations, and interactive content.
• Determine which product features require visual demonstrations, simplified explanations, or interactive presentations.
• Build reusable storytelling and design approaches that maintain consistency across landing pages, product pages, marketing campaigns, events, and other promotional materials.
• Ensure that every major product launch communicates Hex’s value proposition through distinctive, polished, and recognizable visual experiences.

3. Motion Graphics and Interactive Design

• Incorporate motion and interactive elements into digital experiences to explain product functionality, communicate ideas, and improve audience engagement.
• Design animations, transitions, micro-interactions, and lightweight motion graphics that enhance website usability and product storytelling.
• Establish creative standards for using animation and motion effectively, prioritizing functionality and communication over unnecessary visual effects.
• Explore innovative approaches to interactive web experiences and dynamic product demonstrations.
• Collaborate with external creative professionals and motion designers when specialized production expertise is required.

4. Design Leadership and UX Strategy

• Provide creative direction on how user experience, visual hierarchy, interactive elements, and storytelling should be integrated across Hex’s digital platforms.
• Develop a clear understanding of different customer audiences and how they interact with the company’s marketing and product experiences.
• Collaborate with Brand, Content, Product Marketing, and Product teams to identify opportunities for improving communication through effective design.
• Determine the most appropriate structure, presentation format, and visual emphasis for different types of information and product stories.
• Help communicate Hex’s expanding product ecosystem without compromising clarity, usability, or brand identity.
• Identify opportunities to improve the company’s digital design language and strengthen its visual presence.
• Apply user research, website performance data, experimentation, and creative judgment to continuously improve digital experiences.

5. Front-End Development and Implementation

• Translate design concepts into functional, production-ready digital experiences using HTML, CSS, React, and Next.js.
• Build prototypes and develop interactive web features directly in the browser when doing so improves the final product.
• Leverage AI-powered design and development tools to accelerate prototyping, creative exploration, and implementation.
• Evaluate emerging AI technologies and workflows, identifying opportunities to improve productivity without compromising design quality.
• Work alongside engineering teams to deliver complex technical projects and ensure successful implementation.
• Maintain high standards of accuracy and attention to detail, ensuring that final products closely reflect the original design vision.
• Develop reusable front-end components, workflows, and implementation standards that improve efficiency and consistency.
• Ensure that all digital experiences balance creativity with website performance, accessibility, maintainability, and development speed.

6. Creative Collaboration and Team Development

• Contribute to the creative direction, design standards, review processes, and overall culture of the Design team.
• Strengthen collaboration between Brand, Product Marketing, Product Design, Content, and Engineering departments.
• Introduce new creative ideas, industry trends, and design inspiration to improve Hex’s approach to digital experiences and product communication.
• Identify opportunities where additional design, animation, or engineering resources could improve project outcomes.

Qualifications and Experience

The ideal candidate should have:

• At least 8 years of professional experience in web design, visual design, UI/UX, or digital product design.
• Advanced practical skills in user experience, typography, interactive design, visual communication, and design systems.
• Strong experience presenting and communicating technical products, particularly within B2B, developer-focused, data, or product-led technology companies.
• The ability to approach design strategically and align creative decisions with customer needs, brand storytelling, product objectives, and business priorities.
• A strong understanding of motion graphics, animations, and interactive digital experiences.
• Practical front-end development experience with HTML, CSS, React, and Next.js, including the ability to deliver production-ready projects.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted design and development technologies and the ability to incorporate them into creative workflows.
• Excellent project ownership skills, with the ability to work independently and manage assignments from initial concept to final launch.

Compensation and Benefits

Annual Salary: $170,000 – $240,000

Hex provides a competitive total rewards package designed to support employee development, financial well-being, and work-life balance.

Benefits include competitive salary and equity opportunities, comprehensive healthcare coverage, and flexible paid time off.

The advertised compensation range may vary depending on geographical location, professional experience, and the level of expertise required for the position.

Final salary offers will be determined following the interview process, taking into consideration the candidate’s demonstrated capabilities, career experience, internal compensation standards, and opportunities for future growth.

Additional information about compensation and benefits will be provided by the Recruitment team throughout the hiring process.

About Hex

Hex is a growing technology company committed to making data accessible and understandable to everyone. Its mission is to empower more people to become confident data users through innovative analytics and data exploration tools.

The company develops a modern data analytics platform that addresses the limitations of traditional data and business intelligence solutions.

Its technology enables users to explore information using natural language, with or without writing code, while relying on trusted data and contextual information.

Thousands of organizations, including Ramp, Figma, StubHub, Anthropic, and Gamma, use Hex because of its intuitive interface, advanced AI capabilities, and flexible data exploration features.

Hex has secured more than $100 million in funding from prominent investors, including Sequoia, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Snowflake, and Amplify.

With established office locations in San Francisco and New York, alongside remote employees across the United States and United Kingdom, Hex brings together a collaborative team of ambitious professionals who value innovation, creativity, and fast execution.