Aquent
Aquent is hiring: Sr UX/UI Designer in Washington
Aquent, Washington, DC, United States, 20022
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$56.70 to $63.00
Start Date:
02.18.2025
Immediate opening for a remote Sr UX/UI Designer. We're looking for candidates with modern and clean lines in designs. Must sit in EST or CST time zone to be considered.
The Design team is a close-knit group of about 40 members with a passion for empowering students. Our client is looking for a talented Senior UX/UI Designer to work across two teams, partnering with the team to support a rebrand and the design of student focused features. You will work closely with cross functional teams that include Product, Content, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer Engagement teams. In this role you will be integral in supporting our mission of building products that support students in planning for their future.
About the Opportunity:
As our Senior UX/UI Designer, you'll work closely with our design team, product leads, and engineering partners to develop creative solutions that meet business goals and user needs. You'll have the opportunity to learn our global design system and contribute to its growth. Additionally, you'll play a vital role in maintaining a consistent brand across various channels, helping us reach our audience effectively.
You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research. You embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and you respect and value your project partners. Through research and discovery, you stay informed about your end users and leverage data to enhance usability, accessibility, and overall product quality.
Design & Implementation (70%)
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $56.70 to $63.00 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium . More information on our awesome benefits !
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$56.70 to $63.00
Start Date:
02.18.2025
Immediate opening for a remote Sr UX/UI Designer. We're looking for candidates with modern and clean lines in designs. Must sit in EST or CST time zone to be considered.
- Role: Senior UX/UI Designer
- Location: Remote - EST hours
- Start date: 2/2025
- Duration: through 6/27/2025 (possibility to extend)
The Design team is a close-knit group of about 40 members with a passion for empowering students. Our client is looking for a talented Senior UX/UI Designer to work across two teams, partnering with the team to support a rebrand and the design of student focused features. You will work closely with cross functional teams that include Product, Content, Engineering, Marketing, and Customer Engagement teams. In this role you will be integral in supporting our mission of building products that support students in planning for their future.
About the Opportunity:
As our Senior UX/UI Designer, you'll work closely with our design team, product leads, and engineering partners to develop creative solutions that meet business goals and user needs. You'll have the opportunity to learn our global design system and contribute to its growth. Additionally, you'll play a vital role in maintaining a consistent brand across various channels, helping us reach our audience effectively.
You are highly skilled, motivated, and passionate about visual design, UX, and research. You embrace collaboration while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit, and you respect and value your project partners. Through research and discovery, you stay informed about your end users and leverage data to enhance usability, accessibility, and overall product quality.
Design & Implementation (70%)
- Contribute to the UX/UI of our foundational design system, standards, patterns, and UI elements
- Partner with the team and build out assets to support the rebrand
- Support Design Research (generative and evaluative) initiatives for your team/products
- Analyze business and technical requirements
- Lead synthesis sessions with your team, following agile and lean methodologies
- Create user journeys and flows to capture current and future states of user pathways
- Develop wireframes, interactive prototypes, comps, specifications, and other design documents to communicate design ideas to project teams
- Partner with the Accessibility team to ensure designs are compliant
- Create and present concepts/deliverables to your working team and our stakeholders
- Conduct handoffs to developers through tools like Figma and Zeplin
- Work collaboratively with our Core Design team to ensure brand and pattern alignment
- Contribute to the overall UX/UI design strategy, including feeding into and refining a design system to facilitate a unified experience across all our products
- Document and present design updates to stakeholders and users
- Collaborate and take direction from multiple stakeholders and disciplines to achieve an impactful experience
- Participate and be vocal in agile ceremonies to ensure design needs are met
- Nurture a culture of user empathy and deep curiosity that enables us to build simple, intuitive products for our customers
- Advocate for consistent design processes, methods, core systems, and patterns
- Self-manage workload and obtain necessary requirements and acceptance criteria needed to complete work
- Coordinate with UX Lead, product leads, design team, and engineers to ensure timely delivery of design artifacts
- Help foster an environment for collaboration by partnering with business and other creative units to align our visual design approach with project goals
- As a UX/UI product designer, you are independent in your support of a cross-functional team and you possess a 'Product Design' mindset, owning the end-to-end design delivery: from strategy to comps.
- Advanced understanding of design systems, hierarchy, typography, visual design, responsiveness, accessibility, branding, illustration, data visualization, iconography and interaction design.
- A Bachelor's degree in a related field (computer science, interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience.
- 5+ years of professional experience of relevant Design experience.
- Detailed oriented and passionate about visual design, UX, and research and have extensive experience in information design and user scenarios, digital interaction design patterns, Web site architecture, user interfaces, and navigation on various platforms (Web, mobile, tablet).
- Experience with user-centered research, such as usability testing, contextual inquiry, and field interviews.
- Understanding the physical, cognitive, cultural, and social factors that affect design decisions.
- Familiarity with front-end coding technologies and data modeling is a big plus.
- Strong communicator with an ability to demonstrate both leadership and understanding with respect to project partners; Self-managing, but also used to working within a team
- Highly adaptable to new information, situations, or challenges and can work independently
The target hiring compensation range for this role is $56.70 to $63.00 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.
About Aquent Talent:
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world's biggest brands. Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium . More information on our awesome benefits !
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We're about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.