Barbarian is hiring: Freelance User Experience Designer in New York

Barbarian is looking for a Freelance User Experience Designer to create intuitive, meaningful experiences for our clients. Our ideal candidate is someone with a passion for UX who is able to grasp user needs and solve problems.

What You Do:

• Define target users and problems
• Research competitive products, industry trends and topics.
• Convert complex problems into simple and elegant solutions
• Gather, analyze and determine how to respond to feedback from external clients and internal directors
• Create detailed experience maps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes etc. based on briefs from client-facing teams
• Articulate intended experience through design artifacts in critiques and presentations.
• Quickly iterate and offer explorations of potential solutions based on design critique from peers or from learnings found in user testing or feature response
• Defend design choices using previous user research, heuristics and usability standards
• Communicate designs and prototypes to developers with a proper handoff
• Present design ideas clearly and effectively with the proper rationale
• Proactively identify opportunities for new executions, efficiencies, and designs

What You Need:

• 2+ years of UX design experience
• A strong online portfolio of work demonstrating design processes in creating user-centered design solutions
• Ambition to produce the best in class work
• Excellent verbal and written skills to be able to communicate to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Expert in Figma
• Familiarity with Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator and Indesign
• Aptitude to learn new design tools
• Ability to communicate with dev teams to understand technical constraints and opportunities
• Responsive design, web design experience
• Relentless attention to detail and a sharp eye for design
• A passion for all things digital
• A collaborative, open + honest, curious and human mindset
• Strong attention to detail and organizational skills
• Experience working in an flexible and fast paced environment
• Exists on the cutting edge of UX design – and pushes our user research, testing, and design infrastructure and practices.

Location: remote

Rate range: $500-$1000/day

The starting rate will match the skills and experience in the role assessed during the interview process.

Barbarian is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). We strongly support diversity in the workforce.