#128417 - UX/UI Designer
Lifted, an Upwork Company™
Remote (US) · Posted Aug 4
Job description
We are seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer to support a career-site platform that enables organizations to create custom-branded experiences, showcase employer brands, and highlight job opportunities across parent, subsidiary, or affiliated brands.
This contractor will execute product design work across a defined capability backlog, beginning with chatbot functionality. The role will focus on creating reusable components for a modular design system while accounting for the technical constraints of a content management system.
The ideal candidate is a strong UX and interaction designer who can independently translate broad or ambiguous requirements into accessible, responsive, production-ready web experiences.
Key Responsibilities
- Execute UX/UI design work across a career-site product backlog in partnership with Product and other cross-functional stakeholders.
- Design the initial chatbot experience and contribute to additional priorities following onboarding.
- Create new reusable components for a modular, component-based design system.
- Design components that work effectively within the technical and authoring constraints of a CMS.
- Design and refine career landing pages, job-board experiences, and custom campaign landing pages.
- Define responsive behavior and maintain functional parity across desktop and mobile experiences.
- Support platform-wide theming, branding, accessibility, and SEO considerations.
- Create interaction flows, prototypes, component states, and detailed designs in Figma.
- Maintain consistency across component libraries while accommodating different client brands and use cases.
- Independently prioritize work, resolve ambiguity, and maintain design throughput for time-sensitive client opportunities.
- Collaborate with Product and technical stakeholders to ensure that proposed designs are feasible and ready for production implementation.
Must-Have Skills
- Four or more years of product design or UX design experience.
- Strong UX and interaction-design capabilities, rather than primarily visual, graphic, or brand design experience.
- At least two years of experience working within or creating a design system or component library.
- Experience designing reusable components for modular or component-based design systems.
- Experience with responsive and mobile-first web design.
- Experience shipping responsive marketing pages, product pages, or comparable web experiences into production.
- Working knowledge of WCAG and ADA accessibility standards.
- Experience applying accessibility principles to web experiences, interaction states, or reusable components.
- Experience designing within the technical constraints of a CMS.
- Understanding of how CMS content structures, authoring requirements, and platform constraints affect component design.
- Advanced proficiency with Figma, including component libraries, variants, and Auto Layout.
- Professional experience using Claude.
- Professional experience using Claude Code.
- Ability to work independently and prioritize effectively within a broad or ambiguous scope.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- Experience using additional AI-assisted design or development tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or Figma AI.
- Marketing, landing-page, or campaign-page design experience.
- B2B or enterprise SaaS experience.
- Enterprise experience strongly preferred.
- SEO-aware web design experience.
- Chatbot or conversational UX design experience.
- Experience with recruiting technology, HR technology, career sites, or comparable sales-enablement client sites.
- Ecommerce design experience.
Required Tools & Platforms
- Figma, including component libraries and Auto Layout.
- Claude.
- Claude Code.
- Content management systems; specific CMS platform experience is not required.
- AI-assisted design or prototyping workflows.
Location, Time & Engagement
- Full-time remote contract engagement.
- Approximately 40 hours per week.
- Contract scheduled to run through November 30, 2026.
- Open to candidates located in the United States or LATAM.
- Pacific Time or Central Time alignment is preferred.