Freelance Experience Designer

Produktiv Agency; Oakville; Remote; CAD 100,000 - 125,000; Part time

Job summary

Produktiv Agency is looking for a Freelance User Experience (UX) Designer to create intuitive designs for startups and digital-first companies. You’ll collaborate with product teams, lead research, and design user journeys to enhance user experiences across various digital platforms.

Benefits

Flexible async work

Opportunities to lead and influence strategy

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years experience in UX or product design preferred in startup or agency settings.
• Expert in Figma with component libraries and design systems experience.
• Proficient in UX research, usability testing, and journey mapping.

Responsibilities

• Lead user research and translate insights into personas and journey maps.
• Design and manage component-based design systems in Figma.
• Plan usability testing sessions and analyze performance metrics.

Skills

UX research

Usability testing

Journey mapping

Analytical mindset

Collaborative

Tools

Figma

Notion

Webflow

Framer

Miro

Maze

Looker Studio

Job description

Freelance User Experience (UX) Designer

Location: Remote

Type: Freelance / Contract (10–20 hrs/week to start)

Reports To: Creative Director / Product Strategist

Compensation: Hourly or Project-Based (based on experience & scope)

About Produktiv

Produktiv is a product marketing and venture studio that helps startups and digital-first companies build standout brands, experiences, and go-to-market engines.

We're hiring a Freelance UX Designer who can turn messy problems into smooth, intuitive user experiences. You’ll work closely with product marketers, visual designers, and clients to shape flows, prototypes, and user journeys across landing pages, onboarding experiences, and product interfaces.

This isn’t just wireframes — it’s systems-level thinking, testing, and building UX that performs.

What You’ll Do

UX Strategy & Research

• Lead or assist in user research efforts — interviews, surveys, heatmaps, or usability tests.
• Translate insights into clear personas, journey maps, and UX goals.
• Define problems and hypotheses collaboratively with strategists and product teams.

Design Systems & Prototyping

• Design and manage component-based design systems in Figma, ensuring consistency across brands and products.
• Create wireframes, mockups, and hi-fidelity interactive prototypes for:
• Web experiences (landing pages, sign-up flows)
• Onboarding journeys
• Lightweight product UIs or dashboards
• Document interaction guidelines and UX principles for dev handoff or stakeholder buy-in.

User Testing & Validation

• Plan and execute usability testing sessions (remote or async).
• Analyze performance using tools like Hotjar, Maze, FullStory, or session recordings.
• Iterate designs based on feedback, data, and conversion performance.

Design Sprints & Problem Solving

• Facilitate or participate in fast-paced design sprints and co-creation workshops.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with writers, devs, and stakeholders to solve UX problems creatively.
• Deliver recommendations backed by both research and experimentation.

Who You Are

• 3–5+ years experience in UX or product design — preferably in startup, SaaS, or agency settings.
• Expert in Figma, with experience creating and scaling component libraries and design systems.
• Proficient in UX research, usability testing, and journey mapping.
• Analytical mindset — you enjoy diving into metrics and user behavior.
• Collaborative, curious, and comfortable with both structure and ambiguity.
• Bonus: experience with tools like Notion, Webflow, Framer, Miro, Maze, or Looker Studio.

Bonus Points

• Experience running design sprints or workshops (remotely or in person).
• Familiarity with CRO, onboarding flows, or B2B funnel optimization.
• Experience designing for developer handoff or working closely with devs.
• Motion/interaction design knowledge (Protopie, Lottie, or Framer Motion).

Why Work With Produktiv

• Design across real startup environments — from 0→1 MVPs to scaled products.
• Clear, research-backed briefs and collaborative stakeholders.
• Flexible async work with opportunities to lead, test, and influence strategy.
• Get featured in client projects, UX case studies, and studio R&D.