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Job#: 3047335
Job Description:
UX Designer
Location: Kansas City, Missouri (Remote)
Role Overview
This is an 8-week contract role, averaging approximately 20 hours per week. The position involves working on established web experiences, balancing production execution with UX judgment to ensure seasonal updates are intuitive, accessible, responsive, and consistent with the brand and design system. This role is suited for a designer who can start quickly, work independently within established systems, and manage small to medium-sized assignments.
Key Responsibilities

• Design and deliver production-ready seasonal updates across the web ecosystem.
• Own small to medium-sized UX assignments from requirements through final design and development handoff.
• Support the migration of experiences between brand platforms.
• Design and support page migrations and updates across existing digital experiences.
• Support work related to software category pages, product detail pages, financial services experiences, seasonal offers, and legal revisions.
• Apply the existing design system and component patterns while identifying where requirements may need thoughtful UX solutions.
• Create responsive designs and communicate intended behavior across desktop, tablet, and mobile experiences.
• Partner with Content Design to ensure information hierarchy, messaging, and visual design work together.
• Collaborate with developers, marketers, product partners, and other designers.
• Review existing experiences and recommend pragmatic improvements for usability, accessibility, consistency, or responsiveness.

Required Qualifications
Experience: 2 to 4 years of UX, digital, web, or product design experience.
Skills:

• A strong portfolio demonstrating responsive web design, visual craft, and production-ready execution is required.
• Proficiency in Figma and experience working within established design systems and component libraries.
• Ability to independently take clearly defined work from requirements through polished design.
• Understanding of responsive behavior, accessibility, hierarchy, interaction patterns, and digital design best practices.
• Experience working quickly across multiple projects without sacrificing attention to detail.
• Collaboration skills and ability to incorporate feedback from multiple disciplines.
• Experience working with developers and preparing clear designs for implementation.

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.
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