Job Description
UI/UX Designer
Location: 100% Onsite
Address: Fort Walton Beach, FL 32548
Duration: Direct Hire
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the design of intuitive, accessible, and meaningful user experiences across web, iOS, and Android platforms, grounded in deep understanding of user needs and behaviors.
- Conduct and synthesize user research, usability testing, and customer feedback to identify pain points, guide design decisions, and continuously improve the experience.
- Clearly articulate design rationale, user insights, and experience trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences, ensuring shared understanding and alignment.
- Collaborate with product managers, engineers, support teams, and marketing to ensure user needs are embedded throughout the development lifecycle.
- Work closely with other UI/UX designers to co-create product flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs that are consistent, scalable, and aligned with business priorities.
- Lead platform-wide consistency efforts through periodic design audits and coordination with peers.
- Keep design tasks, documentation, and research findings up to date in shared tools (e.g., Figma, ClickUp) to support visibility and accountability across development teams.
- Support the development of fellow designers by sharing expertise, offering guidance, and modeling high standards of craft and collaboration.
Requirements:
- Extensive UX/UI Experience: 7+ years of experience designing digital products across web and mobile platforms, with a strong portfolio showcasing exceptional UX, visual design, and interaction design.
- Leadership & Mentorship: Proven experience mentoring designers, reviewing work constructively, and leading by example within a UX team or design chapter.
- Collaboration: Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams including product managers, engineers, and data scientists.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to present design ideas and rationale to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Cross-Platform Expertise: Deep understanding of UX patterns and constraints across iOS, Android, and responsive web platforms, with experience in delivering cohesive experiences across them.
- Design System Management: Experience building, maintaining, and scaling design systems with a focus on consistency, reusability, and collaboration with engineering.
- Customer-Centered Mindset: Expertise in translating user insights, feedback, and analytics into meaningful product improvements and elegant design solutions.
- Strategic Thinking: Comfortable working at both the conceptual and detailed design levels, with the ability to connect design decisions to business outcomes and roadmap priorities.
Core Requirements
- 7+ years of UI/UX experience with a strong portfolio of shipped digital products
- Prior experience designing for SaaS or B2C applications
- Experience working as part of a cross-functional team (product, engineering, QA, etc.)
- Demonstrated ability to mentor or coach junior designers
- Strong communication skills, especially when collaborating with non-design stakeholders
- Proficient in Figma, including component-based design and handoff best practices
- Comfortable designing across both mobile and web platforms (not just responsive web)
Mobile Platform Expertise - Candidate should specialize in one of the following:
Option A - Native iOS Design Expertise
- Deep familiarity with Apple's Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
- Experience designing for UIKit and/or SwiftUI
Option B - Native Android Design Expertise
- Deep familiarity with Android's Material Design guidelines
- Experience designing for Jetpack Compose or legacy Android UI frameworks
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