Principal UX Designer

About this role

Principal UX Designer

Location: United Kingdom

Work mode: Office-based/Home-based/Hybrid

Position Summary
Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company, advancing the world's infrastructure, sustaining both the global economy and the environment. Within Bentley, the Design organization shapes meaningful experiences, from brand to in-product interactions, with clarity, coherence, and craft.

The Bentley Infrastructure Cloud (BIC) team designs the experiences that bring Bentley's cloud platform to life, connecting infrastructure data, workflows and digital twins into a coherent, powerful product ecosystem. We work across complex, interconnected product surfaces where clarity and usability are hard-won, and where great UX directly determines whether users can unlock the value of their data at scale.

As Principal UX Designer in the BIC team, you're a senior individual contributor who leads through standards, judgement and influence. You define what great UX looks like across BIC's product surfaces, hold that bar in every crit and every deliverable, and challenge us to do better when it's not being met, regardless of who's in the room.

You make this team's designers measurably better, not through management, but through the rigor of your feedback, the depth of your insight, and the way you model senior UX thinking in practice. You treat AI as a lens for rethinking what that practice looks like, and you bring the team with you. In a team built to shift how design is perceived at Bentley, you are the living proof of that case.

Responsibilities:

• Define and own the UX quality standard across all team engagements, establishing what great looks like, reviewing work against it, and making sure every output reflects the level this team was built to deliver.

• Be the senior UX authority on the work itself, making the smartest calls on user flows, interaction patterns, information architecture and experience quality, and holding that po...