User Experience Designer - Global Applications Solution : Job Details

UI/UX Designer (Contract-to-Hire)

Location: Atlanta, GA or Windsor, CT (Hybrid - Onsite from Day 1)

We are hiring a UI/UX Designer for a 3-6 month contract-to-hire position. We need a creative and collaborative professional to help us design an intuitive user experience for a critical migration project. This is a hybrid role requiring you to work onsite from the beginning.

Responsibilities:

• Conduct lightweight user interviews to understand migration pain points.
• Create personas and journey maps to visualize user needs around:
• Rescheduling migrations.
• Viewing readiness tasks.
• Accessing documentation.
• Seeing personalized migration details
• Facilitate short, focused workshops with stakeholders to align goals and constraints
• Develop low- to mid-fidelity wireframes for key user flows
• Build interactive prototypes using Figma, Adobe XD, or Sketch to simulate user interactions.
• Iterate designs based on feedback from internal users and stakeholders.
• Work closely with backend engineers to align UI components with the SQL database structure.
• Provide annotated design specs and style guides for implementation.
• Document design decisions, user flows, and component libraries.
• Prepare handoff materials for development teams including red lines, assets, and interaction notes.

Skills Required:

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Information Systems, or related field
• Overall 7+ years of experience with 3+ years of experience as UI/UX developer.
• Experience conducting user interviews and creating personas/journey maps.
• Ability to design wireframes and interactive prototypes using tools like Figma, Adobe XD, or Sketch.
• Familiarity with user flows related to scheduling, readiness tasks, and documentation access.
• Experience aligning UI components with backend SQL database structures.
• Ability to produce annotated design specs, style guides, and handoff materials.
• Strong documentation skills for design decisions and component libraries.
• Experience facilitating stakeholder workshops and iterative design processes.
• Design Tools: Proficiency in Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch for wireframes and prototypes.
• User Research: Conducting interviews, creating personas, and journey maps.
• Interaction Design: Building interactive flows for migration rescheduling, readiness tracking, and documentation access.
• Design Documentation: Annotated specs, style guides, redlines, and component libraries.
• Collaboration: Working with backend engineers to align UI with SQL database structure.
• Design Systems: Creating reusable UI components and documenting design decisions