UX Designer (Contractor) - AI-Driven, Human-Centered UX

Modus Digital; New York (NY); Remote; USD 83,000 - 131,000; Part time

Job summary

Modus Digital is seeking a UX Designer- Contractor to craft human-centered digital experiences across multiple platforms. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, rigorous research synthesis, and hands-on design craft, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and employing AI-enabled design tools to push ideas further.

The contractor will drive discovery, produce personas and journeys, conduct audits, and create annotated wireframes and prototypes, guiding development with clear UX strategy

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of UX design experience, preferably at a digital consultancy, agency, or product-focused organization.
• Strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful, user-centered solutions across multiple devices, platforms, and experience types.
• Mastery of core UX deliverables, including research findings, personas, journey maps, sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, data visualizations, and functional specs.
• Experience uncovering user needs and behaviors, defining UX problems, and translating insights into simple, powerful digital experiences.

Responsibilities

• Shape creative strategy and conceptual UX direction for digital products and experiences.
• Participate in discovery, including stakeholder interviews, user research, analytics review, and user needs analysis.
• Synthesize research findings into clear insights, opportunities, and recommendations.
• Develop personas, customer journeys, sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and functional specifications.
• Conduct UX heuristic audits of existing software, websites, and digital products.
• Design conceptual prototypes and detailed annotated wireframes to align stakeholders and guide development.
• Structure information architecture, navigation systems, content taxonomies, component models, and data-driven experiences.
• Design across conversational UI, responsive websites, large templated sites, native mobile apps, enterprise platforms, and digital products.
• Collaborate with product owners, UI designers, content strategists, engineers, project managers, account teams, and client stakeholders.
• Present research, concepts, UX strategy, and design recommendations clearly and confidently to internal teams and clients.
• Work independently and proactively with remote, cross-functional teams while managing priorities and deadlines.
• Report progress, communicate risks or dependencies, and contribute to project planning as needed.

Skills

UX design

Portfolio

User research

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Data visualization

Prototyping

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Figma

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Modus Digital is seeking a UX Designer- Contractor to craft human-centered digital experiences across multiple platforms. The role emphasizes strategic thinking, rigorous research synthesis, and hands-on design craft, collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and employing AI-enabled design tools to push ideas further.

The contractor will drive discovery, produce personas and journeys, conduct audits, and create annotated wireframes and prototypes, guiding development with clear UX strategy