About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Product Designer, Contract (Senior - Design Director) based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Design thoughtful, high-quality digital product experiences across desktop, mobile, and responsive environments.
- Translate user journeys, product requirements, strategic inputs, and creative direction into intuitive flows, interfaces, interactions, and prototypes.
- Develop, evolve, and document scalable component-based design systems, including reusable patterns, specifications, and assets.
- Apply design systems consistently across templates and digital surfaces while identifying gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Balance user needs, brand expression, technical feasibility, accessibility requirements, and delivery constraints when making design decisions.
- Collaborate closely with designers, strategists, technologists, producers, engineers, and client teams throughout the design and delivery process.
- Present work clearly in internal and client reviews, explaining design rationale and connecting decisions to user and business objectives.
- Partner with engineering teams during implementation to maintain design quality and ensure the intended experience is accurately delivered.
- Independently manage scoped design workstreams, maintaining momentum, quality, communication, and alignment throughout an engagement.
- For Design Director-level assignments, establish a high creative and design-quality bar, guide workstream direction, mentor designers, and build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders.
- Contribute constructively to team critiques, design exploration, and continuous improvement of design practices and systems.
Requirements
- Significant professional experience designing digital products, services, platforms, or complex responsive web experiences.
- A strong portfolio demonstrating excellent visual craft, thoughtful UX, systems thinking, and the ability to transform complex problems or journeys into cohesive digital experiences.
- Deep proficiency in Figma, including components, variables, libraries, prototyping, and structured documentation.
- Demonstrated experience creating, scaling, and maintaining practical design systems that enable teams to work efficiently and consistently.
- Ability to work from foundational strategy, information architecture, product requirements, or an established creative direction and translate these inputs into connected experiences.
- Strong understanding of accessibility and inclusive design principles across devices, interfaces, and user contexts.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership of a defined workstream, manage priorities, and communicate proactively in fast-moving engagements.
- Strong collaboration skills and experience working effectively with multidisciplinary teams and clients.
- Excellent presentation and communication skills, with the ability to explain design decisions clearly to both design and non-design audiences.
- For Design Director-level opportunities, demonstrated experience providing hands-on creative leadership, mentoring designers, setting design direction, and confidently guiding senior client stakeholders.
Conditions
- Expected contract compensation of $61–$120 per hour.
- Contract compensation adjusted based on location, experience, and skillset.
- Three regional pay ranges designed to account for differences in cost of living.
- Remote contract work with the flexibility associated with a freelance engagement.
- Opportunities to work on varied digital product, platform, responsive web, and design-system projects.
- Potential benefits in accordance with applicable law and company policy, including eligibility based on hours worked and assignment duration.
- Opportunity to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and experienced creative, strategy, technology, and production professionals.
- Opportunities to contribute at both senior individual-contributor and design leadership levels.