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nextSource · 1 day ago

Senior Product Designer (Contract)

United States

Contract

Remote

Mid, Senior Level

$55/hr - $70/hr

3+ years exp

nextSource is a company seeking a Senior Product Designer with a focus on UI design. The role emphasizes user-centered design and collaboration with cross-functional teams to create impactful products and experiences across web and mobile platforms.

Software

Hiring Manager

Matthew Grieve

Responsibilities

You contribute meaningfully to early-stage discovery and strategic design efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to explore opportunities and define direction

Contribute to design sprints, envisioning sessions, and workshops to explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and align teams around shared outcomes

Synthesize research, usability findings, behavioral data, and operational inputs into clear, insight-driven design directions

Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform, validate, and refine design decisions throughout the product lifecycle

Champion human-centered, inclusive design practices grounded in accessibility standards to ensure solutions meet diverse user needs

Communicate design rationale, insights, and vision clearly through artifacts, narratives, and presentations

Translate strategy and insights into polished, production-ready design work that scales across platforms

Deliver high-quality UI designs with strong visual hierarchy, interaction clarity, and attention to detail across web and native mobile experiences

Design Systems Expertise (Required)

Extensive experience working within robust web design systems and native mobile design systems (iOS and Android)

Apply system components, patterns, and tokens accurately while identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement

Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing to validate flows, components, and interactions and drive iterative design improvements

Create prototypes at appropriate fidelity to explore, test, and communicate design solutions

Design and test experiences using inclusive design principles informed by accessibility standards, applying plain language to support clarity and comprehension

Design for responsive, mobile-first web experiences and native mobile applications

Leverage AI tools to support ideation, prototyping, exploration, and iteration where appropriate, as an accelerator for design workflows not a replacement for user centered design thinking

Use tools such as Figma, Figjam, Miro, AdobeCC, Lovable, DScout, User Insight to design, prototype, test, and document work

Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders throughout discovery, design, and delivery

Maintain organized, well-documented design files and artifacts to support efficient collaboration and continuity

Follow established team workflows and design processes while providing constructive feedback to improve how the team works

Participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews, critiques, and QA cycles

Translate design decisions into clear, implementation-ready specifications and annotations

Communicate ideas, research insights, and design solutions with clarity and confidence in both synchronous and asynchronous settings

Qualification

UI Design ExcellenceDesign Systems ExpertiseUsability TestingPrototypingResponsive DesignAccessibility StandardsDesign ThinkingCuriosityCollaborationCommunication SkillsAdaptability

Required

A portfolio of your work included in your application

A Bachelor's degree in a related field (interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, computer science, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience

3–7 years of experience in product or service design

A strong product design mindset with experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications

Excellent skills in creating and communicating design artifacts, including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs

Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to translate insights into actionable design direction

Extensive experience working within design systems for both web and native mobile platforms (required)

Experience planning and conducting usability testing and incorporating findings into design decisions

A strong understanding of responsive design, inclusive design principles, and accessibility standards

Comfort collaborating with engineers and discussing technical constraints

Clear, effective communication skills and a collaborative, user-advocacy mindset

Curiosity and adaptability, with interest in emerging tools and trends

Preferred

Experience with front-end technologies is a plus

AI-Assisted Design (Plus). Leverage AI tools to support ideation, prototyping, exploration, and iteration where appropriate, as an accelerator for design workflows not a replacement for user centered design thinking