UX Designer - San Francisco (Hybrid)
Overview
Placement Type:
Temporary
Salary:
$98.63-124.07 Hourly
Start Date:
10.06.2025
**Join a leading innovator through Aquent, a key partner in connecting top talent with groundbreaking opportunities!**
Imagine shaping the future of user experiences for a global leader that impacts millions. This is your chance to own critical outcomes, drive strategic direction, and leave an indelible mark on complex programs and emerging areas. As a pivotal force within our client’s dynamic team, you will navigate uncharted territories, define scalable solutions, and champion a long-term vision for user experience and product strategy. We are seeking a visionary who can influence multiple design efforts, challenge conventional thinking, and provide fresh perspectives that propel common objectives forward. If you are ready to apply your expertise as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered methodologies, design systems, and research tools, this is your opportunity to create truly impactful and thoughtful designs.
**What You’ll Do:**
You’ll be at the forefront of design innovation, collaborating to deliver solutions that are not only user-centric but also strategically aligned with business goals. Your contributions will include:
* **Strategic Design Leadership:** Guide design specifications and influence implementation by collaborating closely with engineering teams.
* **Data-Driven Impact:** Utilize and propose key data and metrics to assess product impact, analyze user trends, and understand the broader industry landscape to inform design solutions.
* **Continuous Improvement:** Drive design enhancements based on UX testing and stakeholder feedback, ensuring product goals are met and expectations exceeded.
* **Consensus Building:** Build strong consensus across diverse teams and gain support for your design strategy, effectively communicating your approach and proactively addressing challenges.
* **Project & Resource Management:** Contribute to defining project priorities aligned with overarching goals, coordinate resource allocation, and seek opportunities to expand your influence within the product team.
* **Innovative Solution Creation:** Develop design solutions grounded in user insights, business needs, and industry trends that significantly advance business objectives and support key performance indicators (KPIs).
* **Forward-Thinking Design:** Create innovative solutions for user, product, and business challenges, anticipating evolving design constraints and clearly articulating the rationale behind your choices.
* **Holistic Design Systems:** Drive the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across various teams or offerings, fostering a unified and coherent experience.
* **Research & Insights:** Guide other designers in concept creation for product ideation and testing, or conduct independent research to gather insights that shape appropriate design directions.
* **Framework Application:** Apply, adapt, and define UX design frameworks, principles, patterns, and systems. Leverage writing and design tools to visualize ideas, develop mock-ups, and create prototypes that propel the product vision.
* **Accessibility & Standards:** Tailor deliverables to specific requirements, adhering to writing and design templates, style guides, and accessibility guidelines.
* **Proactive UX Enhancement:** Propose improvements to user experience by analyzing and anticipating user needs, collaborating to resolve strategic, product, or technological constraints.
**What You’ll Bring:**
We are looking for a highly skilled individual with a proven track record in UX design and a passion for creating exceptional user experiences.
**Must-Have Qualifications:**
* Proficiency in data analysis, synthesis, and planning
* Strong knowledge of product design principles
* Expertise in interactive technology
* Deep understanding of UX research methodologies
* Familiarity with the product development lifecycle
* Developed aesthetic sensibility
* Insight into user behavior
* Excellent presentation skills
* Compelling storytelling abilities
* A strong systems thinking approach
* Exceptional craftsmanship in design execution
**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. 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.
Client Description
As a User Experience (UX) Designer, you own outcomes for one mature project, complex program, or emerging area. You accomplish this by navigating and defining a scalable and sustainable approach to solve difficult problems with limited precedent and/or by developing and evangelizing long-term user experience & product strategy for your team. You influence by guiding the momentum of multiple adjacent design efforts and/or by providing alternative perspectives for your team that challenge prevailing thinking against common objectives and/or by provoking greater divergence of thinking. You apply your expertise by serving as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered product development methodologies, design systems, and research tools. You collaborate with others to deliver work such as: analyzing or anticipating user needs, resolving constraints, and mitigating potential risks, leading the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products, defining user experience / product strategy for your team, and exploring innovative solutions to new or existing problems that explicitly consider and mitigate unintentional harm. You have a proven ability to design products and deliver outputs including the product or platform, and possess the depth of knowledge, experience, and business acumen required to assess and communicate how well-considered the design work is for appropriateness, longevity, collaboration, scaling.
Responsibilities include:
– Collaborate with engineers to communicate, negotiate, and/or influence design intention. Guide design specifications (e.g., design spec s, mock-ups, or product models) for implementation.
– Use and propose new, key data and metrics to evaluate product impact, understand the product ecosystem, user trends, and industry (e.g., competitors) by collaborating across teams when developing design solutions.
– Drive improvements in design based on UX testing and stakeholder input and provide input and feedback to engage stakeholders on product design and achieve product goals.
– Build consensus across teams and gain support for design strategy across stakeholders. Communicate design approach to other designers or stakeholders (e.g., product manager), addressing and anticipating challenges and questions.
– Contribute to developing project priorities in alignment with larger project goals, and coordinate allocation of resources within the project. Act on opportunities to expand responsibilities within the immediate product team.
– Create design solutions based on user insights, business needs, and industry trends that further business objectives. Support stakeholders in achieving key performance indicators (KPIs).
– Create innovative design solutions to user, product, and business problems. Anticipate evolving design constraints and communicate rationale of choices related to design solutions.
– Drive a holistic design process, design system, or design language across teams or products. Perform design and testing processes and help develop and generate support for a design vision with partners.
– Guide UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and/or user research/testing or conduct research independently to inform design. Seek research insights to develop the appropriate design direction.
– Apply, adapt, and/or define UX design frameworks for user experiences, including principles, patterns, and systems. Leverage writing and design tools to visualize ideas or develop mock-ups or prototypes to drive the product vision forward. Tailor deliverables based on product or platform requirements independently. Identify and follow writing and design templates, style guides, and accessibility guidelines.
– Propose ideas to improve UX by analyzing or anticipating user needs through collaboration with others, and solve constraints in strategy, product, or technology.
Minimum role qualification requires proficiency in:
– Data analysis, synthesis & planning
– Product design (Knowledge)
– Interactive technology
– UX research methodology
– Product development lifecycle
– Aesthetic sensibility
– User behavior
– Presentations
– Storytelling
– Systems thinking
– Craftsmanship