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# Senior Consultant - User Experience & Product Design at CompassX Group

- **Company:** CompassX Group
- **Location:** Irvine, CA
- **Compensation:** $120k–$150k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-05-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/compassx/3c06ea4d-e40a-4772-a748-a630e8c0fd6b

## Job description

CompassX is a boutique business and technology consulting firm. We help Fortune 500 and high-growth clients deliver their most strategic initiatives, from enterprise transformations to digital and data-driven projects. With over 15 years of proven results, we’ve expanded across industries including financial services, pharmaceuticals, aerospace, consumer products, and quick service restaurants.

We are honored to be recognized as a three-time winner of Consulting Magazine’s Best Boutique Firms to Work For, and previously recognized as a “Best Place to Work” in Southern California and one of INC.’s 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the U.S.

We're looking for a UX consultant who leads with problem-solving and brings strong UX methodology to bear on it - not a visual designer whose primary output is Figma comps or style guides. At CompassX, UX consultants work directly with enterprise clients to shape digital products, internal tools, and service experiences. You'll bring structure to ambiguous problems, run discovery with real users, and design solutions that are both technically feasible and genuinely usable - moving fluidly across research, interaction design, and prototyping depending on what the engagement needs. The right person here is someone who has built real UX credibility but operates like a consultant: comfortable with ambiguity, able to work across the full design spectrum, and not precious about deliverable type.

## What You'll Do

- Lead Discovery: Plan and facilitate user research - interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing - to surface real problems before jumping to solutions.

- Design Across the Stack: Move fluidly between journey maps, service blueprints, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes depending on what the engagement needs. Own the end-to-end design arc.

- Build and Validate: Go beyond static deliverables where needed - build interactive prototypes, contribute to design systems, or work directly in tools like Figma, Tableau, or low-code platforms to get something in front of users faster.

- Translate for Technical Teams: Partner with developers, architects, and data engineers to make sure what you design is actually buildable - and that what gets built matches the intent.

- Communicate Design Decisions: Articulate your design thinking to non-design stakeholders: why this approach, what it solves, what trade-offs were made. Make design accessible without dumbing it down.

- Bring AI Into the Work: Use AI tools to accelerate synthesis, prototype generation, and design iteration - and help clients think through how AI changes their product and service design.

## What You'll Bring

- Generalist UX Range: 5–8 years across UX research, interaction design, and/or design build. You've done at least two of the three well - and ideally all three.

- Consulting or Client-Facing Experience: You've worked in an agency, consultancy, or embedded client delivery context. You know how to operate with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and real stakeholder pressure.

- Enterprise Design Context: Experience designing for internal enterprise tools, workflows, or platforms - not just consumer-facing products. You understand organizational complexity and design within it.

- Prototyping & Build Fluency: Proficiency in Figma is expected. Familiarity with Tableau, Power BI, or low-code tools is a strong plus for engagements with a data visualization component.

- Research Rigor: You know how to run a proper user interview, synthesize findings, and turn messy qualitative data into design direction - not just pretty journey maps.

- AI-Forward Mindset: You actively use AI tools to accelerate design work and bring a point of view on how AI is changing product and service design.

- Local Presence: Based in LA or Orange County, with the ability to be on-site at client locations in the SoCal area.

## Benefits

- Competitive salary with performance-based bonus
- PTO, holidays, and sabbatical program
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
- Retirement plan with company match from day one
- Learning and professional development support
- Small-firm culture with direct access to leadership

Our consultants say CompassX is a place where they can truly find their own path. As part of a smaller firm, they see the impact of their work, have an identity, and know their voice matters. They value the freedom to take the reins of their careers, shape their client work, and maintain a direct line to leadership.

With CompassX’s focus on serving local Southern California clients, consultants not only build lasting relationships but also see the results of their work in the communities where they live.

At CompassX, you won’t just follow a path - you’ll create one.

## About CompassX Group

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: CompassX Group is a boutique business and technology consulting firm that helps Fortune 500/1000 clients bridge the gap between ideas and measurable results through project leadership and business transformation.
- **Entity Type**: Private (mid-growth, bootstrapped)
- **Headquarters**: Irvine, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2009
- **Founders**: Kyle J. Heppenstall (Managing Director & presumed founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Business Consulting and Services, with specializations in Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Consumer Discretionary.
- **Target customers**: B2B – Fortune 500/1000 enterprises and established organizations.
- **Mission / purpose**: “Bridging the divide between great ideas and meaningful results” by matching consultants to work they are passionate about and delivering high-quality, low-bureaucracy engagements.

## Products & Services
CompassX delivers consulting services across several practice areas, each offered as a client engagement (not a standalone product):

- **Project Management & Business Transformation**: End-to-end delivery leadership for complex strategic initiatives, including agile and product evolution, business resiliency, and process improvement.
- **Solution Design (UX / Product / Process)**: Senior consultants and solution owners who design user experiences, product strategies, and operational workflows.
- **Data & AI Solutions**: Manager-level solution owners who architect data platforms and AI-driven business capabilities.
- **Organizational Change Management**: Consulting engagement focused on driving adoption and cultural transformation during large-scale change.
- **Technology Advisory**: Strategic guidance on technology roadmaps, vendor selection, and digital evolution.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company).
- **Key Metric**: Annual revenue of approximately **$4.5M** (latest estimate) and a team of **30 employees**.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: No external investors disclosed; clients include well-known Fortune 500/1000 firms (e.g., Taco Bell, Capital Group, Deloitte alumni are common talent sources).
- **Growth Signals**: Active job postings (16 open roles as of mid-2026); LinkedIn follower growth of +148% year-over-year; expanding into Data & AI solution ownership; described as a “mid-growth company” with 13+ years of history.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Boutique by design** – Remains small and adaptable, limiting bureaucracy while still solving large-scale, global problems for multi-billion‑dollar clients.
- **Low/no‑travel model** – Consultants work primarily from SoCal offices with minimal travel, differentiating from traditional Big Four consulting firms.
- **Culture of access** – Employees have direct interaction with company leadership and can shape the firm’s evolution.
- **High retention signals** – Emphasis on “A‑Players,” transparent career paths, and a tight-knit community.

## Strategic Focus
- **Deepen Data & AI capabilities** – Recent job postings for “Manager – Solution Owner (Data, and AI)” signal a push into high‑demand technology advisory.
- **Maintain boutique scale** – Prioritize quality of work and employee satisfaction over rapid headcount growth.
- **Expand in Financial Services** – Dedicated practice lead for Business Transformation in Capital Markets.
- **Continue local hiring** – All roles are hybrid in Irvine/LA, reinforcing the “local model” that differentiates them from remote‑first competitors.

## Why Work Here
- **Work‑life harmony** – Flexible, no/low‑travel model with hybrid offices in Irvine and Los Angeles.
- **Generous benefits** – 2‑week sabbaticals every 2 years, 3 weeks PTO plus holidays and sick time, retirement plan with company match, full health coverage.
- **Transparent career progression** – Annual review process with clear milestones; ability to customize your consulting career journey.
- **Small‑team feel** – “Boutique by design” means you know everyone and have a voice in company decisions.
- **Interesting work** – Solve problems for Fortune 500/1000 clients without the bureaucracy of a large firm.

## Sources
1. [CompassX About Page](https://www.compassx.com/about/)
2. [CompassX Careers Page (Lever)](https://jobs.lever.co/compassx)
3. [LinkedIn Company Profile](https://linkedin.com/company/compassx-group)
4. [CompassX Careers – Culture & Benefits](https://www.compassx.com/careers-2/)
5. [CompassX Careers – New Page](https://www.compassx.com/careers-new/)

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