User Experience Designer

Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 64,747 - 71,635; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency is seeking a Remote UX Designer who will leverage user experience research to create high-quality designs. The role includes generating wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes while translating analytics into visual designs. Candidates should have experience with Figma and a portfolio. A degree in Information Technology or Marketing is preferred. This is a contract position with moderate complexity in design projects, requiring attention to detail and user-centered design.

Qualifications

• Must have a portfolio linked in the resume.
• 1-3 years' work experience in a team environment.
• 1-3 years' industry-specific experience.

Responsibilities

• Design elements and components for user experience.
• Create wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes.
• Incorporate branding into products.

Skills

Figma experience

User interface languages

Technical knowledge in design

Interpersonal communication

Attention to detail

Education

Degree in Information Technology or equivalent

Degree in Marketing or equivalent

Job description

Important information: To be immediately considered, please send an updated version of your resume to [e-mail]

Title: UX Designer

Location: REMOTE (May have occasional meetings in Urbandale or Austin, TX (1-2 times per year). Candidates located in Eastern, Central, or Mountain time zones preferred.)

Duration: 12 months

Contract Type: W2 Contract (No C2C)

Pay rate: $47 - $52 per hour

Must have link to portfolio on resume

Figma experience is needed

Major Purpose

Leverages user experience research insights and recommendations to accelerate discussions and decisions early in the product development process. Applies internal/external standards and best practices to create tangible visualizations that serve as the blueprint for the product team to turn a concept into a solution, while ensuring consistency with brand standards. Work at this level is of moderate complexity covering either a single user class with several personas or multiple user classes with a limited set of personas per user class. Designs cover multiple product lines on a single platform and enable moderately complex yet serial user interactions. Designs typically consist of moderately complex modifications to existing solutions.

Major Duties

• Creates and designs elements or components resulting in high quality user experience designs.
• Incorporates branding and common design guidelines into products.
• Creates wireframes, mock‑ups, prototypes and specifications.
• Maintains style guides for varying methods of delivery.
• Follows appropriate design methodology, tools, and protocols to conduct user‑centered design.
• Translates analytics data into visual designs to support interpretation and generation of insights or vice versa.

Skills, Abilities, Knowledge

• Possesses working knowledge of core user interface languages.
• Technical skill and knowledge in a specialized area of engineering, e.g., design, analysis, test, evaluation, etc.
• Skill in interpersonal communications, negotiation, and conflict resolution.
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to deliver production‑ready, clean and usable digital user interfaces across multiple form factors.

Education

• Degree in an Information Technology discipline or equivalent experience. (University Degree – 4 years or equivalent)
• Degree in a Marketing discipline or equivalent experience. (University Degree – 4 years or equivalent)
• Miscellaneous degree or equivalent experience. (University Degree – 4 years or equivalent)

Work Experience

• Work experience in a team environment. (1–3 years)
• Internal or external industry specific experience in relevant discipline. (1–3 years)
• Experience facilitating workshops on specific need(s) for the job, discipline, function, unit, etc. (Less than 1 year)

Seniority Level

• Mid‑Senior level

Employment Type

• Contract

Job Function

• Information Technology

Industries

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing