Senior Contract UX Designer

Akaasa Technologies; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Akaasa Technologies is seeking a Senior Contract UX Designer. Remote work is allowed within a six-state footprint (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky) and candidate must be located in EST or CST.

A portfolio with resume is required, with 5–10 years in UX/design systems and strong Figma capabilities. The role emphasizes building and extending scalable design systems, token structures, accessibility, and collaboration with product partners.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years of UX, product design, or design-system experience.
• Experience building, extending, or maintaining a substantial design system in Figma.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma components, component properties, variants, variables, modes, styles, libraries, and prototyping.
• Demonstrated experience creating scalable variable and design-token structures.
• Experience adapting or extending an established design system rather than designing only stand-alone product interfaces.
• Strong understanding of component anatomy, states, responsive behavior, reusable interaction patterns, and systematic design.
• Experience designing complex, data-heavy interface components such as tables, filters, forms, pagination, sorting, selection, and bulk actions.
• Ability to create flexible Figma components that support intended use without detaching instances.
• Working knowledge of accessibility requirements and their effect on component design, contrast, focus treatment, interaction states, and usability.
• Ability to audit an existing library, identify gaps, recommend a practical completion plan, and independently execute against an approved scope.
• Ability to convert consolidated stakeholder direction into cohesive design-system decisions.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, consistency, and maintainability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain design-system decisions to designers, developers, and product partners.

Skills

UX design

Design systems

Figma components

Design tokens

Accessibility

Systematic design

Data-heavy UI

Stakeholder alignment

Documentation

Tools

Carbon Design System

Job description

POSITION

Senior Contract UX Designer

MUST HAVE A PORTFOLIO WITH RESUME

LOCATION

Remote is okay in six-state footprint (Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky)

Must be located in EST or CST

Required Experience and Skills

• 5 to 10 years of relevant UX, product design, or design-system experience.
• Demonstrated experience building, extending, or maintaining a substantial design system in Figma.
• Advanced proficiency with Figma components, component properties, variants, variables, modes, styles, libraries, and prototyping.
• Demonstrated experience creating scalable variable and design-token structures.
• Experience adapting or extending an established design system rather than designing only stand-alone product interfaces.
• Strong understanding of component anatomy, states, responsive behavior, reusable interaction patterns, and systematic design.
• Experience designing complex, data-heavy interface components such as tables, filters, forms, pagination, sorting, selection, and bulk actions.
• Ability to create flexible Figma components that support intended use without detaching instances.
• Working knowledge of accessibility requirements and their effect on component design, contrast, focus treatment, interaction states, and usability.
• Ability to audit an existing library, identify gaps, recommend a practical completion plan, and independently execute against an approved scope.
• Ability to convert consolidated stakeholder direction into cohesive design-system decisions.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, consistency, and maintainability.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain design-system decisions to designers, developers, and product partners.

Preferred Experience

• Direct experience with IBM's Carbon Design System.
• Experience adapting an open-source design system to an organization's brand and application needs.
• Experience designing systems for enterprise, operational, or internal applications.
• Experience supporting both web and mobile application design.
• Familiarity with the relationship among design tokens, CSS variables, themes, and coded component libraries.
• Experience collaborating directly with front-end engineers on design-system implementation.
• Familiarity with React component libraries.
• Experience defining design-system contribution, review, or acceptance practices.
• Experience creating light and dark themes through semantic variables and tokens.