Remote UX Designer for Data-Dense Enterprise Tools

ApTask Global Workforce; New York (NY); Remote; USD 70,000 - 117,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Sick Pay

Job summary

ApTask Global Workforce is seeking a Software Engineer for a remote, 7+ month contract with a leading technology firm in New York, NY. This role centers on UX for an internal requirements management platform used for XR hardware and software.

You will collaborate with systems engineers, architects and TPMs to make thousands of requirements legible and safely editable, redesign screens and graphs, and produce dev-ready specs.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of UX/product design experience with a portfolio of shipped work.
• Experience designing data-dense enterprise or internal tooling (tables, graphs, hierarchies, admin surfaces).
• Strong Figma skills with components, variants, and design-system contribution.
• Ability to interview technical users and translate domain complexity into clear interfaces.
• Excellent written communication in an async environment.

Responsibilities

• Work across a rolling set of focused design problems, typically delivered in 1-2 weeks
• Redesign individual screens and user flows such as document creation, requirement editing, dependency linking, and coverage views
• Improve dense table and graph views, focusing on information hierarchy, filtering, bulk actions, and empty/error states
• Take a short problem statement, scope it independently, and propose an approach before designing
• Turn engineer- and TPM-reported friction (including bugs and feedback) into concrete design fixes
• Produce dev-ready specs and partner with engineers through build and QA
• Sequence your own work against milestones and keep status visible to a distributed team

Skills

UX design

Figma

Data-dense interfaces

Communication

Interviewing technical users

Self-directed work

Tools

Figma

Job description

ApTask Global Workforce is seeking a Software Engineer for a remote, 7+ month contract with a leading technology firm in New York, NY. This role centers on UX for an internal requirements management platform used for XR hardware and software.

You will collaborate with systems engineers, architects and TPMs to make thousands of requirements legible and safely editable, redesign screens and graphs, and produce dev-ready specs.