What are the responsibilities and job description for the UX/UI Designer- 6-month contract position at Motion Recruitment?
This is a contract UX/UI Designer role supporting a public-facing digital platform used by a large and diverse user base. The position is hybrid within the Boston Area and embedded within a small, collaborative design group. The focus of the role is on user research, usability testing, and high-fidelity interface design, with heavy use of Figma and modern accessibility standards. This is a short-term contract engagement with consistent weekly hours.
This role is ideal for a designer who enjoys owning meaningful research-driven work and seeing their designs quickly move into production. You’ll work closely with product partners, engineers, researchers, and senior stakeholders to improve real-world digital experiences that impact a broad audience. The work emphasizes thoughtful problem-solving, accessibility, and facilitation. Offering a strong opportunity to deepen experience in service design, usability testing, and design systems while maintaining solid work-life balance.
Contract Duration
Approximately 5–6 months
Required Skills & Experience
This role is ideal for a designer who enjoys owning meaningful research-driven work and seeing their designs quickly move into production. You’ll work closely with product partners, engineers, researchers, and senior stakeholders to improve real-world digital experiences that impact a broad audience. The work emphasizes thoughtful problem-solving, accessibility, and facilitation. Offering a strong opportunity to deepen experience in service design, usability testing, and design systems while maintaining solid work-life balance.
Contract Duration
Approximately 5–6 months
Required Skills & Experience
- 3 years of experience in UX/UI or digital product design
- Strong experience planning and running usability testing
- Advanced proficiency with Figma, including high-fidelity prototyping
- Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards
- Ability to synthesize research findings into actionable design recommendations
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams
- Background working in complex or highly regulated environments
- Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system
- Comfort facilitating design workshops and stakeholder sessions
- Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Miro
- Strong systems-thinking and service-design mindset
- Conducting and facilitating usability tests for web-based applications and content
- Translating research insights into accessible, user-centered UI solutions
- Designing and iterating on wireframes and production-ready interfaces
- Contributing components and patterns to an existing design system
- Reviewing UX/UI work produced by partner teams
- Collaborating with product, engineering, data, and policy stakeholders
- 60% UX/UI Design & Prototyping (Figma)
- 25% User Research & Usability Testing
- 15% Design System Contributions & Documentation
- 75% Hands-on design and research work
- 15% Stakeholder collaboration and facilitation
- 10% Documentation, reviews, and design system updates