UX Designer

Onward Search; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 85,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

Life Insurance.

401(k) Program.

Commuter Benefit.

eLearning and Ongoing Training.

Education Reimbursement.

Job summary

Onward Search is seeking a UX Designer for a fully remote contract role focused on owning the UX process for product initiatives within a collaborative design team. You will create user-centered experiences and support active product roadmap efforts, balancing design with technical and business constraints.

The role emphasizes leading UX efforts across projects, delivering comprehensive UX deliverables, and ensuring solutions align with both near-term roadmaps and longer-term product goals.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional UX, interaction, or product design experience.
• Portfolio showing original design work and outcomes.
• Strong Figma prototyping skills.
• Experience taking products from problem definition through implementation.
• Solid understanding of interaction design and information architecture.

Responsibilities

• Own the UX process from planning through implementation.
• Apply user-centered design methods leveraging business insights and research.
• Lead UX efforts across projects with minimal supervision.
• Produce UX deliverables: use cases, flows, wireframes, prototypes, specs.
• Explore multiple solutions balancing roadmap with long-term product goals.

Skills

UX design

Information architecture

User flows

Prototyping

User-centered design

Tools

Figma

Job description

A contract position for a UX Designer is available with our client in the digital and user experience industry. This fully remote opportunity involves owning the UX process for product initiatives within a collaborative product design team, focusing on creating user-centered digital experiences. The role supports active product roadmap efforts, balancing design solutions with technical and business considerations.

The application deadline for this role is 10/22/2026.

UX Designer Responsibilities

• Own the UX process for assigned product initiatives from planning and concept development through implementation.
• Utilize user-centered design methodologies to create intuitive, desirable experiences that incorporate business requirements, customer insights, research findings, and user behavior.
• Lead UX efforts across projects of varying scale and complexity with minimal supervision.
• Produce comprehensive UX deliverables including use cases, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, interaction designs, and detailed design specifications.
• Develop and explore multiple solutions to complex design problems, balancing near-term roadmap needs with longer-term product considerations.

UX Designer Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional UX, interaction, or product design experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating original design work, strong UX thinking, clearly documented processes, and completed outcomes.
• Strong proficiency designing and prototyping in Figma.
• Demonstrated experience taking products or features from initial problem definition through implementation.
• Strong understanding of interaction design, information architecture, user flows, usability, and user-centered design principles.

Perks and Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• 401(k) Program.
• Commuter Benefit.
• eLearning and Ongoing Training.
• Education Reimbursement.

Eligibility requires working over 30 hours per week on an assignment lasting at least 10 weeks.