Full-Time
Lead UX/UI Designer
Multiple Teams
Posted on 9/24/2025
Accurate Background
501-1,000 employees
Background screening solutions for HR
Compensation Overview
$81.7k - $122.7k/yr
Remote in USA
Remote
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- 5+ years of relevant experience in UX/UI design, with a track record of delivering enterprise products.
- Demonstrated experience building design systems and setting UX/UI standards from the ground up.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver on data-informed web and mobile experience that balance user needs and business goals.
- Experience operating independently in complex, distributed organizations while maintaining a bias for action.
- Ability to effectively communicate the 'WHY' of design to cross-functional leaders.
- Proficiency with modern design and collaboration tools.
- Own end-to-end design: Work with Product Managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate complex problems into clear, intuitive experiences across our client portal (enterprise customers) and candidate portal (consumer users).
- Champion user research: Conduct interviews, build prototypes, usability testing, and other research methods to ground designs in customer insights and data.
- Establish standards: Build and maintain a design system, create reusable patterns, and define best practices that scale across teams.
- Shape process: Partner with Product and Engineering to integrate UX into our product development lifecycle (move from reactive screen design to proactive, strategic design involvement).
- Lead and mentor: Provide guidance to a junior UX/UI designer, helping grow their skills while modeling best practices.
- Prior experience managing designers is strongly preferred.
- Experience with AI based design tools strongly preferred.
Accurate Background provides background screening solutions for HR teams and organizations. It offers a suite of services such as criminal searches, drug testing, and global screening, delivered through subscription-based plans and customized packages. The product works by employers initiating checks through Accurate Background’s technology platform, which uses data from various sources to run criminal, employment, and health-related verifications, then delivers compliant results to help with hiring decisions and onboarding. The company differentiates itself by offering a broad, globally connected screening suite and a focus on compliance and a smooth candidate experience across small businesses to large enterprises. Its goal is to streamline the hiring process while reducing onboarding risks for employers.
Company Size
501-1,000
Company Stage
Early VC
Total Funding
$5M
Headquarters
Irvine, California
Founded
1997
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Steve Barnett's appointment drives global expansion post-Sterling $2.2B sale.
- Vero Screening acquisition bolsters UK market leadership immediately.
- VerifyNow buy and Aaron Hayes promotion strengthen APAC, EMEA presence.
What critics are saying
- First Advantage's 15% US share erodes Accurate's 5-7% in 6-12 months.
- Checkr's 30% lower pricing steals SMB clients in 6-12 months.
- EU AI Act fines halt social media tools in Europe by 2026.
What makes Accurate Background unique
- Accurate Background offers ID verification with selfie matching across 200+ countries.
- Proprietary technology enables social media screening launched March 28, 2022.
- Minority-owned status distinguishes it as largest private background screener.
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Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Professional Development Budget
Mental Health Support
Wellness Program
Remote Work Options
Company News
Accurate, a background screening provider, has launched an enhanced Identity Verification solution to help employers combat rising candidate fraud. The solution verifies government-issued IDs and confirms candidate identity in seconds using real-time selfie matching. The platform addresses growing identity fraud risks, including stolen IDs, synthetic identities and AI-generated deepfakes. Gartner predicts that by 2028, one in four candidate profiles could be fake, exposing organisations to financial loss and security breaches. The solution features government ID verification across 200+ countries, liveness detection through selfie capture, and facial matching technology. It requires no app download and integrates into existing screening programmes. Accurate has over 25 years of experience providing background screening solutions globally, operating in more than 240 countries and territories across industries including healthcare, retail, transportation and insurance.
Accurate, a provider of global background checks and monitoring solutions, has appointed Steve Barnett as Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. Barnett brings extensive experience in legal, governance, compliance and enterprise risk management from high-growth organisations. Barnett previously served as EVP, Chief Legal & Risk Officer at Sterling Check Corp., where he guided the company through multiple acquisitions, a successful IPO and its $2.2 billion sale in 2024. He led global teams across legal, compliance and risk management whilst working with private equity sponsors and the board. Before Sterling, Barnett held senior legal roles at Jackson Hewitt and NRT Incorporated, and began his career at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He holds a Juris Doctor from Fordham University School of Law.
NEENAH, Wis. - J. J. Keller & Associates is announcing a strategic arrangement with Accurate, enhancing its Driver Qualification File Management Service to provide companies with even faster, more reliable verification of data when hiring commercial drivers.
IRVINE, CA, Dec 13, 2024 - (ACN Newswire via SeaPRwire.com) - Accurate Background, the world's largest independent provider of compliant background checks and monitoring solutions, announced it has strengthened its global leadership team with the appointment of Mark Thompson, Managing Director, Australia and Asia Pacific region (APAC).
IRVINE, CA - Accurate Background, a global provider of background checks and workforce monitoring solutions, has partnered with Konfir, a UK-based employment verification technology company.