Senior Product Designer (Contract)Remote

Position: Senior Product Designer (UI Focus) (Contract) 

Mode: Contract - long term 

Location: Remote

About the Role

As the Senior Product Designer, you are a highly skilled, thoughtful, and user-centered practitioner with a passion for designing products and experiences that meet real user needs. You bring strong UI design craft, usability rigor, and systems thinking to complex, content-rich products across web and native mobile platforms.

This role places a strong emphasis on UI design excellence, usability validation, inclusive design informed by accessibility standards, and working within robust design systems. You bring a structured, detail-oriented approach to your work, maintaining organized files, clear documentation, and consistent design artifacts, while following established team processes and offering thoughtful feedback to improve them.

You are an advocate for users and equitable experiences. As a creative problem solver, you identify patterns across large systems, balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and bring clarity to complex challenges while staying focused on impact.

 Responsibilities of the role 

Product Discovery and Design Strategy

You contribute meaningfully to early-stage discovery and strategic design efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to explore opportunities and define direction.

• Design Sprints & Envisioning. Contribute to design sprints, envisioning sessions, and workshops to explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and align teams around shared outcomes.
• Insight-Driven Direction. Synthesize research, usability findings, behavioral data, and operational inputs into clear, insight-driven design directions.
• Data-Informed Decisions. Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform, validate, and refine design decisions throughout the product lifecycle.
• User Advocacy. Champion human-centered, inclusive design practices grounded in accessibility standards to ensure solutions meet diverse user needs.
• Storytelling. Communicate design rationale, insights, and vision clearly through artifacts, narratives, and presentations. 

Design Execution, Usability, and Systems

You translate strategy and insights into polished, production-ready design work that scales across platforms.

• UI Design Excellence. Deliver high-quality UI designs with strong visual hierarchy, interaction clarity, and attention to detail across web and native mobile experiences.
• Design Systems Expertise (Required).
• Extensive experience working within robust web design systems and native mobile design systems (iOS and Android).
• Apply system components, patterns, and tokens accurately while identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Usability Testing & Validation. Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing to validate flows, components, and interactions and drive iterative design improvements.
• Prototyping. Create prototypes at appropriate fidelity to explore, test, and communicate design solutions.
• Accessibility & Plain Language. Design and test experiences using inclusive design principles informed by accessibility standards, applying plain language to support clarity and comprehension.
• Responsive & Mobile Design. Design for responsive, mobile-first web experiences and native mobile applications.
• AI-Assisted Design (Plus). Leverage AI tools to support ideation, prototyping, exploration, and iteration where appropriate, as an accelerator for design workflows not a replacement for user centered design thinking.
• Tools. Use tools such as Figma, Figjam, Miro, AdobeCC, Lovable, DScout, User Insight to design, prototype, test, and document work. 

Collaboration and Communication

You are a strong cross-functional partner who contributes to effective, well-run delivery teams.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration. Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders throughout discovery, design, and delivery.
• Structured Work Practices. Maintain organized, well-documented design files and artifacts to support efficient collaboration and continuity.
• Process Adherence & Feedback. Follow established team workflows and design processes while providing constructive feedback to improve how the team works.
• Ceremonies & Reviews. Participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews, critiques, and QA cycles.
• Design Specifications. Translate design decisions into clear, implementation-ready specifications and annotations.
• Presenting. Communicate ideas, research insights, and design solutions with clarity and confidence in both synchronous and asynchronous settings.

 Qualifications needed for the role 

You have:

• A portfolio of your work included in your application.
• A Bachelor’s degree in a related field (interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, computer science, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience.
• 3–7 years of experience in product or service design.
• A strong product design mindset with experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications.
• Excellent skills in creating and communicating design artifacts, including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs.
• Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to translate insights into actionable design direction.
• Extensive experience working within design systems for both web and native mobile platforms (required).
• Experience planning and conducting usability testing and incorporating findings into design decisions.
• A strong understanding of responsive design, inclusive design principles, and accessibility standards.
• Comfort collaborating with engineers and discussing technical constraints (experience with front-end technologies is a plus).
• Clear, effective communication skills and a collaborative, user-advocacy mindset.
• Curiosity and adaptability, with interest in emerging tools and trends, including AI-supported design workflows. 

 Pay Rate Range: $55-$70 per hr (Depending on Experience)

nextSource is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, marital status, parental status, cultural background, organizational level, work styles, tenure, and life experiences or for any other reason.

nextSource is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at talent@nextSource.com.

What nextSource Provides:

• Healthcare Benefits including Medical, Prescription, Vision & Dental Coverage | United Healthcare
• Voluntary STD & LTD | New York Life
• 401(k) Retirement Planning | Fidelity
• Discount Program

*You are Eligible to participate in the benefits program if you are considered a full-time employee of nextSource, working at least 30 hours per week on a consistent basis. Your coverage will be effective on the 1st of the month following 60 days of employment.