UX Designer (III)

Overview Placement Type: Temporary Salary: $90.03-98.49 Hourly up to $98.49/hr Start Date: Aug 26, 2026 Imagine contributing to a globally recognized technology leader that consistently redefines innovation and user interaction. Through our partnership with Aquent, you have the unique opportunity to join a team dedicated to solving complex challenges and creating intuitive, impactful products that touch millions of lives worldwide. As a Senior UX Designer, you will be at the forefront of shaping groundbreaking user experiences, driving strategic direction, and influencing product outcomes that resonate globally. Are you ready to take the reins on significant user experience initiatives, transforming challenging problems into elegant solutions? As a Senior UX Designer, you won't just design; you'll own outcomes, define scalable strategies, and evangelize a long-term vision that shapes the future of product development. This is your chance to make a profound impact, guiding design momentum across multiple efforts and influencing product strategy with your visionary perspective. What You'll Do Own the end-to-end UX outcomes for mature projects, complex programs, or emerging areas, navigating challenges with limited precedent to define scalable and sustainable approaches. Develop and evangelize long-term user experience and product strategy for your team, influencing multiple adjacent design efforts and offering alternative perspectives to challenge prevailing thinking. Serve as a subject-matter expert in UX design principles, user-centered product development methodologies, design systems, and research tools, applying your expertise to complex problems. Collaborate closely with engineers to communicate, negotiate, and influence design intention, guiding the implementation of detailed design specifications, mock-ups, and product models. Drive improvements in design by leveraging key data and metrics, UX testing, and stakeholder input, actively engaging partners to achieve product goals. Build consensus and gain support for design strategy across diverse teams and stakeholders, effectively communicating your approach and anticipating potential challenges. Contribute to defining project priorities aligned with broader organizational goals, and strategically coordinate resource allocation within your immediate product team. Create innovative design solutions based on deep user insights, business needs, and industry trends, ensuring they explicitly consider and mitigate unintentional harm while supporting key performance indicators (KPIs). Drive the implementation of a holistic design process, design system, or design language across various teams or products, developing and generating support for a cohesive design vision. Guide other UX designers in creating design concepts for product ideation and user research, or conduct independent research to inform and validate design directions. Apply, adapt, and define robust UX design frameworks, including principles, patterns, and systems, leveraging writing and design tools to visualize ideas, develop mock-ups, and create prototypes that drive the product vision forward. Propose impactful ideas to enhance user experience by analyzing and anticipating user needs, actively collaborating with others to solve strategic, product, or technological constraints. What You'll Bring Must-Have Qualifications Proficiency in data analysis, synthesis, and planning. Strong knowledge of product design principles and methodologies. Expertise in interactive technology. Demonstrated proficiency in UX research methodology. Deep understanding of the product development lifecycle. Exceptional aesthetic sensibility and attention to detail. In-depth knowledge of user behavior. Strong presentation and storytelling skills to articulate design vision. Proficiency in systems thinking to approach complex design challenges. High level of 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. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. 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.