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Job Description
We are seeking a hands-on UX Designer to improve messaging experiences across mobile applications and desktop web products serving multiple user groups. This role will design new AI-powered messaging features and improve communication patterns so users can respond more effectively, understand conversation status, and re-engage when appropriate.
The ideal candidate has strong end-to-end product design experience, a portfolio demonstrating complex product workflows, and the ability to work independently within an established product environment.
Enterprise Experience Strongly Preferred.
Key Responsibilities
Must-Have Skills
Required Tools & Platforms
We are seeking a hands-on UX Designer to improve messaging experiences across mobile applications and desktop web products serving multiple user groups. This role will design new AI-powered messaging features and improve communication patterns so users can respond more effectively, understand conversation status, and re-engage when appropriate.
The ideal candidate has strong end-to-end product design experience, a portfolio demonstrating complex product workflows, and the ability to work independently within an established product environment.
Enterprise Experience Strongly Preferred.
Key Responsibilities
- Design end-to-end product experiences across mobile applications and desktop web.
- Create wireframes, user journeys, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups.
- Design user experiences for AI-powered messaging features.
- Improve communication responsiveness through reply prompts, expectation setting, status transparency, and re-engagement patterns.
- Simplify complex workflows and data-heavy experiences involving search, filtering, data export, or similar functionality.
- Apply established design-system components, patterns, and visual standards.
- Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, UX Research, and Legal partners.
- Incorporate qualitative research findings and user feedback into design iterations.
- Support design validation through qualitative research and A/B testing.
- Prepare clear design specifications and handoff materials for engineering teams.
- Work independently, manage assigned design work, and ramp quickly with minimal oversight.
Must-Have Skills
- 3 years of professional product UX design experience.
- Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product UX work.
- Strong interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and user-journey design skills.
- Experience designing complex workflows or data-heavy enterprise product experiences.
- Experience with search, filtering, data export, or comparable complex interaction patterns.
- Ability to work independently and operate effectively with minimal oversight.
- Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, Research, and Legal stakeholders.
- Experience incorporating UX research findings and user feedback into product designs.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Recent hands-on individual contributor experience.
- Experience designing messaging, inbox, communications, or notification products.
- Accessibility expertise, including familiarity with WCAG and assistive technologies.
- Experience designing international or localized products.
- Experience designing products for the Japanese market.
- Mobile-first product design experience.
- Experience supporting A/B testing or experimentation programs.
- Prior contractor or embedded-team experience within a large product organization.
- Experience designing AI-enabled product features.
Required Tools & Platforms
- Strong, current Figma proficiency.
- Experience creating interactive prototypes.
- Experience with design-to-engineering handoff workflows.
- Experience working within an established design system.
- Remote contract opportunity.
- Candidates must be located in the United States.
- Must be available for full-time work at 40 hours per week.
- Must be able to work with teams operating in the U.S. Central time zone.
- Contract is expected to continue through March 31, 2027.