User Experience Designer

Horizontal Talent; East Bethel (MN); On-site; USD 77,000 - 148,000; Full time

Job summary

Horizontal Talent is seeking a senior UX designer to shape scalable digital experiences across web and mobile. You will design and govern reusable components, patterns, and shared libraries, partnering with designers, engineers, product managers, and accessibility specialists.

In this role, you will advance design system governance, improve consistency, and support adoption through clear documentation, strong collaboration, and a focus on accessibility and responsive design across platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of UX or product design experience with design system contribution.
• Experience building reusable components, patterns, and shared libraries.
• Advanced Figma skills: components, variants, auto-layout, and library management.
• Strong understanding of design system architecture and scalable design practices.
• Ability to document standards and guidance to drive consistency.
• Collaborate effectively with engineers to support accurate implementation.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve reusable components, patterns, and shared assets in Figma.
• Identify opportunities to standardize solutions and strengthen scalability across digital products.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners to align design intent with production implementation.
• Create and update documentation, usage guidance, and best practices that support adoption across teams.
• Help ensure components and patterns are accessible, inclusive, and responsive across platforms.
• Contribute to design reviews, governance processes, and collaboration workflows that support a healthy design system.
• Evaluate tools and practices that improve design efficiency and design-to-development handoff.

Skills

UX design

Design system ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Accessibility design

Responsive web design

Documentation

Communication

Problem solving

Tools

Figma

Job description

Bring your design systems expertise to a role focused on shaping scalable, reusable digital experiences across web and mobile. In this position, you'll partner with designers, engineers, product managers, and accessibility specialists to improve consistency, usability, and efficiency through thoughtful system design and collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and improve reusable components, patterns, and shared assets in Figma.
• Identify opportunities to standardize solutions and strengthen scalability across digital products.
• Work closely with cross-functional partners to align design intent with production implementation.
• Create and update documentation, usage guidance, and best practices that support adoption across teams.
• Help ensure components and patterns are accessible, inclusive, and responsive across platforms.
• Contribute to design reviews, governance processes, and collaboration workflows that support a healthy design system.
• Evaluate tools and practices that improve design efficiency and design-to-development handoff.

Skills

• 5+ years of UX or product design experience with meaningful design system contribution or ownership.
• Hands-on experience building or evolving reusable components, patterns, and shared libraries.
• Advanced Figma skills, including components, variants, auto-layout, and library management.
• Strong understanding of design system architecture and scalable design practices.
• Experience creating clear documentation, standards, and guidance that drive consistency.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with engineers to support accurate implementation.
• Working knowledge of accessibility and inclusive design principles.
• Experience designing for responsive web and modern digital products.
• Strong communication, problem-solving, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting design systems across web, iOS, and Android.
• Familiarity with design tokens, governance models, contribution processes, or release workflows.
• Exposure to modern design-to-code workflows and product development practices.
• Interest in or experience with AI-assisted design and development tools, such as prompt-based interfaces, code generation, Figma Make, or MCP-enabled tooling.

Horizontal Talent is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where diverse perspectives are valued, respected, and welcomed. We believe equitable hiring practices help create stronger teams, better ideas, and better outcomes for everyone.

Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. The pay range for this role is $37 - $71 per hour based on qualifications and experience.