Senior UI/UX Designer

The Planet Groups' Fortune-500 Financial Services client has a need for a remote Senior UI/UX Designer for a 10-month contract starting in February 2026!

• Pay: $55-$60/hr depending on experience (W2 and benefit options)
• Location: Remote - While this is a remote position, candidates must be located in Dallas, Texas (preferred) or Los Angeles, California.
• Candidates must be U.S. citizens residing and working within the United States to be eligible.

This is a senior-level role responsible for overseeing experience design strategies and initiatives. This role combines a deep understanding of user-design principles with leadership skills to ensure that products and services meet the needs and expectations of users.

The primary role of a Senior UI/UX Designer is to collaborate with Product Managers and Design Manager to define and execute the overall user experience vision and strategy, ensuring consistent and seamless experience across various online and offline touchpoints.

Working with authority and professionalism, they will lead design tasks on assigned projects or may delegate tasks and offer feedback to team members, ensuring the high quality of the digital design work and displaying the expertise that has gone into the project.

The ideal candidate will have a track record of UI/UX work on digital platforms/applications.

Senior UI/UX Designer Responsibilities:

• Team leadership: Work together and mentor a team of design professionals, providing guidance, mentorship, and support. Ensure the team’s collaboration, growth, and adherence to design processes and methodologies.
• UI/UX design and prototyping: Proven expertise in user interface (UI) design, interaction design, and information architecture. Lead the creation of wireframes, prototypes, and visual designs to communicate and test design concepts.
• Stakeholder management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, developers, and business stakeholders, to ensure alignment and a shared understanding of user experience goals.
• AI in design: Has skills in applying AI on various design tools and to accelerate the design lifecycle.
• Usability testing and evaluation: Work with UX Lead to execute usability testing strategies to validate design decisions and uncover areas for improvement.
• User research and insights: Involved in user research activities to gain a deep understanding of user needs, behaviors, and motivations. Utilize research findings to inform design decisions and validate design solutions.
• Industry awareness: Staying up to date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in user experience design and provide thought leadership and guidance on emerging UX trends and innovations.

Senior UI/UX Designer Qualifications:

• 5 years of UI design experience designing for complex digital applications/product solutions (not branding or marketing websites).
• Have a portfolio available for review with examples of project experience that demonstrates strategic and conceptual thinking.
• Be highly proficient with design software such as Figma, etc.
• Natural propensity for pixel perfect design.
• Highly proficient in working with Product Managers and multiple teams.
• Self-starter/motivator and is a high impact team player.
• A clear understanding of the importance of user-centered design, design thinking and research methodologies through formal training or work experience.
• A customer-focused approach and experience conducting and leveraging qualitative & quantitative user research methodologies and insights to drive design decisions (e.g. UserZoom, User Testing, etc.).
• Fluent in creation of wireframes, mid and high-fidelity designs (e.g. Figma, etc.).
• Understand and apply accessibility to design.
• Manage timelines and multiple concurrent projects.
• Self-starter and operate at a high level independently.
• Fluent with Mac system.

Nice to have:

• Experience working in Wealth Management or Financial industry.
• Experience working in an Agile framework, iterating on the product based on user input and stakeholder’s direction.
• Experience developing designs for digital products with complex tech stacks.
• Experience or familiarity with Storybook, Chromatic, NPM, etc.
• Experience with CSS/HTML.
• Degree in graphic design or related degree.