10up is hiringContract Senior UI Designer

• Partner with Project and Account Managers to plan design-related activities within project timelines and ideal project outcomes while mitigating risks.
• Be part of design workshops, discussions, and co-creation sessions.
• Engage in iterative, modular design production, documentation, and communication at various fidelity levels, such as visual concepts, style tiles, production style guides, user journeys, interactive prototypes, wireframes and layouts, high-fidelity comps, motion, animation definition, etc.
• Collaborate with other disciplines on scope definition and design deliverables, fostering a psychologically safe collaboration and critique environment.
• Turning insights into actionable recommendations and design solutions.

About you: 

• You have 5+ years of experience working with modern website and app design principles across multiple devices - with a particular focus on layout, typography, color, media, and accessibility
• You are equally comfortable with conceptual design and tactical design production in a fast-paced agency environment with effective time management. You have the ability to balance business, audience, and technical needs to drive positive design outcomes.
• You have clear and concise client communication skills, with the ability to confidently present design work with supporting rationale and compelling storytelling with confident workshop facilitation skills and co-creation mindset to define problems, ideate, and define solutions.
• You are proficient with modern design, prototyping, remote collaboration tools (e.g., Figma and Miro), and come with interactive prototyping expertise.
• You have systematic design thinking and expertise in creating modular component libraries and design systems.
• You have experience with large-scale content publishing or relevant adjacent expertise around designing for digital-first, editorial content.
• You are able to work collaboratively within a diverse multidisciplinary team and efficiently manage design feedback from multiple stakeholders with an agility to adapt to various organizational working styles (e.g. agile, waterfall, lean etc.)
• You are comfortable with ambiguity and have the ability to reduce it.
• You work in a timezone with at least 4-6 hours of overlap with the GMT timezone.

The expected hourly rate for this role is up to $60 USD per hour. Compensation is determined based on a variety of factors including relevant experience, projects, geographic location, and business needs.