UX/Product Designer (Design Systems) RemoteLocation: RemoteRate: $53/hr (Weekly pay + Medical Benefits)Duration: 3–4 month contract (Excellent potential for extension)Hours: Full-time M-F (8am–5pm your time zone)
Our client is a thriving educational tech company with a mission to provide the world’s best learning experience to anyone, anywhere. The team is passionate, collaborative, and also enjoys a fun, community-focused culture with meals, music, volunteering, and sports.The Design & Research teams translate learner, educator, and enterprise user insights into actionable recommendations that help create a seamless experience across the platform. This role will focus on learner-facing visual design and design systems, creating intuitive, polished user experiences.
Responsibilities:Work through design problems end-to-end, translating research insights and concepts into delightful user experiences, including workflows, visual design, and detailed interactions.Drive design during ambiguous phases, mapping business and customer needs to define the vision for key initiatives.Design experiences that are globally scalable, inclusive, and equitable for all users.Utilize qualitative and quantitative insights to inform design decisions.Partner with product managers, engineers, data scientists, content strategists, and researchers to create products from definition to shipping.Advocate for the user and influence design decisions across teams.Focus on responsive web design, design systems, and visual design (animation, layering, interactions).
Basic Qualifications:4–8 years of experience as a UX/Product Designer4-8 years of experience in system designStrong experience in responsive web design and building scalable design systemsProven ability to design accessible web-based experiences across desktop and mobileExpertise in creating responsive web experiences that adapt seamlessly to mobile devices (not native apps)Experience with visual design (animation) layering, interactions etcMust have a polished and clear portfolio on your resume, showcasing high-quality UX work.Requires design capabilities from UX design to visual design.Solid UX design skills: user flows, IA, wireframes, prototypes, and design systems.Able to collaborate effectively with PMs, engineers, and designers.Experience conducting user research to inform design and MVP development.Experience to apply visual design skills while using a UI pattern library/design system.Requires ability to learn quickly and hit the ground running.Proficient with Figma and GSuite (Docs, Sheets, etc.).Experience designing accessible web-based experiences.Bonus: Experience with LLM designBonus: Experience with learner-facing visual designBonus: Experience with AI tools for design work