UX Designer

Job Description

📌 Position: Product UX Designer (Messaging & AI)

Location: Remote from LATAM

Contract Type: Full-time contractor (via [REDACTED])

Time Zone Alignment: US Central Time (CT)

🧭 About [REDACTED]

[REDACTED] is a global technology and design firm focused on building impactful digital solutions through remote, distributed teams across LATAM. We partner with international clients across industries, providing long-term technical expertise, product innovation, and team augmentation.

🚀 Project Overview

You will be embedded directly within client's Messaging team, focusing on dual-sided user bases across mobile apps and desktop web platforms. The primary objective is to drive quality, responsiveness, and innovation across messaging workflows. By designing intuitive AI-powered messaging features and optimizing reply patterns, your work will directly accelerate employer-candidate communication so that more conversations successfully result in hires.

🔍 Key Responsibilities

• End-to-End Product UX Design: Design wireframes, interactive prototypes, user journeys, and high-fidelity mockups for messaging experiences across both mobile and desktop platforms.
• AI Feature Integration: Lead the UX design for new AI-powered messaging features to streamline and improve interaction efficiency between users.
• Responsiveness & Engagement Patterns: Create design solutions—including reply prompts, expectation setting, status transparency, and re-engagement patterns—to increase responsiveness between employers and job seekers.
• Design System Adherence & Handoff: Leverage established design languages, components, and patterns within Figma to ensure smooth design-to-engineering handoff workflows.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with distributed, cross-functional teams across Product Management, Engineering, UX Research, and Legal.
• Design Validation: Iterate on designs by integrating qualitative user research insights and validating performance through structured A/B testing programs.

💡 Must-Have Skills

• Proven UX Experience: 3+ years of professional product UX design experience in a mid-level individual contributor role.
• Portfolio Demonstration: A proven portfolio showing end-to-end product design, including interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and user journey mapping.
• Complex Enterprise Workflows: Hands-on experience designing complex workflows or data-heavy experiences (e.g., search, filtering, data export).
• Core Tools & Systems: Strong, current proficiency in Figma alongside experience working within established design systems and handoff workflows.
• Research & Autonomy: Demonstrated ability to integrate research insights, iterate on feedback, ramp up quickly, and work independently with minimal oversight.

🌟 Nice-to-Have Skills

• Domain Expertise: Prior product design experience with messaging, inbox, unified communications, or notification systems.
• Accessibility: Expertise in accessibility standards, familiarity with WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines), and experience designing for assistive technology.
• Internationalization: Experience with localized products, particularly for global markets such as Japan.
• Design & Testing Methodologies: Mobile-first design experience and direct involvement with A/B testing validation.
• Enterprise Background: Prior experience working as an embedded contractor within large-scale product organizations.

🌐 Time Zone & Collaboration

The role requires strict alignment with the US Central Time Zone (CT). Candidates must be available to work during CT business hours to ensure real-time collaboration with distributed engineering, product, and research partners.

💬 Language

All interviews, documentation, and daily communication will be conducted exclusively in English.

Note: This contract is managed through [REDACTED]. We provide the platform and infrastructure for LATAM's top talent to work with global leaders.