User Experience Designer

Kelly; United States; On-site; USD 76,000 - 87,000; Full time

Job summary

Kelly is seeking an experienced UX/UI designer who builds and architects design systems, not just uses them. The role focuses on unifying products across acquisitions to deliver an 85% operational design system within six months, with AI-enabled workflows to accelerate concepts.

You will join a team of eight designers, collaborate with design and engineering leads, and own end-to-end UX/UI work across web, mobile, and dashboards, setting accessibility and quality standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of end-to-end UX/UI design for web and mobile
• 3+ years building and maintaining design systems across multiple products
• 1+ year using AI tools in design workflows, with token/AI-ready assets

Responsibilities

• Evolve and maintain the Client Design System with components, tokens, patterns, and docs
• Architect semantic design tokens and automated theming (light/dark/accessibility)
• Structure system for AI agents with machine-readable tokens and specs
• Collaborate with engineering to connect components to codebase under governance
• Assist developers with AI tools to build with the design system consistently
• Introduce AI-assisted workflows for generation, auditing, and scaffolding
• Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and polished UI for web/mobile/dashboard
• Set and uphold accessibility, consistency, and visual quality standards
• Track adoption, collect feedback, and manage versioning/change communication
• Typical day: plan and execute component work with leads

Skills

UX/UI design

Design systems

AI in design

Accessibility standards

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design / HCI / Graphic Design

Tools

Figma

Storybook

React

Angular

Job description

Title: UX/ UI Designer

Pay Rate: $55 per hour

Duration: 6-month contract, possible conversion to full-time or extension

Hours: Full-time, 40 hrs/week

Priority: High, immediate start

About the Role

Our client has laid the foundation of its Design System, and a growing product portfolio means it needs to grow too. They are looking for an experienced UX/UI designer who builds and architects design systems, not just uses them.

The immediate priority is bringing products from recently acquired companies into one unified interface, so clinical users (mainly nurses) face less cognitive load. The goal is to get the design system to 85% operational within six months.

A key part of this role is using AI to make the design system work harder. That means structuring it so AI agents and coding assistants can find and use its components for fast proof-of-concept builds, and finding AI-driven ways to build and maintain the system itself.

You will join a team of 8 designers and work mainly with design and development leads.

What You'll Do

• Evolve and maintain the Client Design System, including components, tokens, patterns and documentation
• Architect the system's foundations: semantic design tokens and automated theming (light, dark and accessibility modes)
• Structure the system for AI agents, with machine-readable tokens, well-defined component specs and documentation written for both people and AI
• Partner with engineering so components connect to the codebase under a proper governance model
• Help developers use AI tools (Figma MCP, Cursor, etc.) to build with the design system correctly and consistently
• Introduce AI-assisted workflows for building, auditing and maintaining the system, such as automated consistency checks, documentation generation and component scaffolding
• Design user flows, wireframes, prototypes and polished UI for web, mobile and dashboard products
• Set and uphold standards for accessibility, consistency and visual quality
• Track adoption, gather feedback and manage versioning and change communication

A typical day: Meeting with lead designers to identify new components, then planning and executing the work to design and update the system.

Must-Haves

• 5+ years (firm minimum) of end-to-end UX/UI product design: user flows, wireframes, prototypes and polished UI for web and mobile
• 3+ years building and maintaining design systems (components, tokens, documentation, versioning, engineering partnership), ideally across multiple products or teams
• 1+ year using AI tools in design or development workflows, with an understanding of how AI agents consume design system assets (Figma MCP server, tokens, structured docs)

Also required:

• Expert-level Figma (variables, component properties, libraries, auto layout). Figma is the primary tool.
• Solid understanding of design tokens, theming and how components are implemented in code
• Deep knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA or higher), which is critical for European compliance
• Strong communication skills with cross-functional teams
• Experience at larger corporations with complex product functionality

Nice-to-Haves

• 2+ years designing for healthcare, clinical, medical device or regulated environments
• 2+ years on complex, data-dense enterprise apps or alerting/workflow tools
• 2+ years with front-end frameworks (React, Angular) and tools like Storybook
• 3+ years of accessibility expertise applied in shipped products
• 1+ year setting up or running design system governance or contribution models
• Certifications: Nielsen Norman Group UX Certification, or IAAP CPACC/WAS
• Living near one of the client's tech centers (San Jose, San Diego, Portland, Orlando, Cambridge) for occasional office visits

Why clinical experience matters:

Clinical settings prize speed and efficiency over flashy consumer design. Designers without this context often create interfaces that get in the way of clinical workflows.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Interaction Design, HCI, Graphic/Visual Design or a related field, or 3–4 additional years of relevant design work.