Senior UX Designer

Gofractional; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 207,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid sick leave

Job summary

Tactile, a Seattle-based e-commerce and technology leader, seeks a Senior UX Designer to shape early-stage experiences amid ambiguity. You will lead with curiosity, sketch, storyboard, prototype, and articulate design directions for a top-tier client.

This is a highly collaborative role partnering with researchers and cross-disciplinary designers. Your focus is experience definition and advocacy, not pixel perfection, with hybrid work in Seattle and competitive hourly compensation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product, experience, and/or service design.
• Portfolio demonstrating UX leadership and research-grounded narratives.
• Proficiency with Figma and prototyping tools.
• Strong facilitation and collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail amid business, technical and resource constraints.

Responsibilities

• Illustrate ideas and present findings to clients and teams.
• Design UX/UI solutions across a variety of products and platforms.
• Conduct user research, task analysis, and usability testing.
• Define user flows and information architecture across touchpoints.
• Document progress and share knowledge with others.

Skills

UX leadership

Sketching

Storyboarding

Journey mapping

Research & analysis

Group facilitation

Attention to detail

Tools

Figma

Job description

Role Overview

You will be a Senior UX Designer (contract to hire) who thrives in early-stage ambiguity and loves shaping new experiences that positively impact peoples' jobs and lives. This role is for someone who leads with curiosity, explores and communicates visually (sketching, storyboarding, prototyping), and makes challenges and opportunities tangible for the team and client. You will be working directly with a Seattle-based e-commerce and technology leader, translating complex business requirements into tangible solutions for a top-tier strategic client.

This is a highly collaborative, cross-functional role. You'll partner closely with Tactile researchers and cross-disciplinary designers, as well as client teams and stakeholders to translate insights into clear, compelling directions. While you're comfortable collaborating on interface details and systems, your center of gravity is experience definition and advocacy, not pixel-perfection.

Responsibilities

YOU ARE

• Able to illustrate your ideas and communicate findings effectively in presentations and client meetings, adapting style and detail level to meet client and project needs.
• Both independent and team-oriented, with the ability to design and develop UX and UI solutions for a wide variety of products and platforms.
• Motivated to conduct your own user research, task analysis, and usability testing to get at the heart of problems.

YOU WILL

• Define user flows, information architecture, and interaction models, shaping systems of behavior across touchpoints, not just individual screens
• Be responsible for managing a diverse range of work tasks and projects, including crafting, pitching, and/or validating design decisions made.
• Ensure experiences are cohesive, intentional, and grounded in real user needs.
• Assess changing project requirements and client needs in order to make necessary trade-offs and/or adjustments to your day-to-day workflow.
• Seek out user/engagement data, proven design patterns, and co-worker input to aid in your design efforts.
• Thoroughly and accurately document your progress and share your knowledge with others.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

YOU HAVE

• 8+ years of experience working in product, experience, and/or service design.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating UX leadership, collaborative exploration, and concept development — including sketching, storyboarding, journey mapping, and experience narratives grounded in research
• Proficiency with industry standard design and prototyping tools, specifically Figma.
• Group facilitation skills, including the ability to make conversations tangible, and advocate for user and project needs on the fly.
• Impeccable attention to detail, with ability to work creatively around difficult business, technical and resource constraints.
• The ability to manage large projects with repetitive design tasks with a high degree of focus, attention and passion.

Work Arrangement & Compensation

Department: UX
Employment Type: Contract to hire
Location: Seattle, WA
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Compensation: $130.00 - $150.00 / hour

This contract position pays between $130 and $150 hourly. Individual pay ranges are determined by a wide variety of factors, including, but not limited to, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and geography. This position may be eligible for paid sick leave. It's a flexible position with available hours based on Tactile's needs.