User Interface Designer Contract Jobs in Texas (NOW HIRING)

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer to support a career-site platform that enables organizations to create custom-branded experiences, showcase employer brands, and highlight job opportunities across parent, subsidiary, or affiliated brands.

This contractor will execute product design work across a defined capability backlog, beginning with chatbot functionality. The role will focus on creating reusable components for a modular design system while accounting for the technical constraints of a content management system.

The ideal candidate is a strong UX and interaction designer who can independently translate broad or ambiguous requirements into accessible, responsive, production-ready web experiences.

Key Responsibilities

* Execute UX/UI design work across a career-site product backlog in partnership with Product and other cross-functional stakeholders.

* Design the initial chatbot experience and contribute to additional priorities following onboarding.

* Create new reusable components for a modular, component-based design system.

* Design components that work effectively within the technical and authoring constraints of a CMS.

* Design and refine career landing pages, job-board experiences, and custom campaign landing pages.

* Define responsive behavior and maintain functional parity across desktop and mobile experiences.

* Support platform-wide theming, branding, accessibility, and SEO considerations.

* Create interaction flows, prototypes, component states, and detailed designs in Figma.

* Maintain consistency across component libraries while accommodating different client brands and use cases.

* Independently prioritize work, resolve ambiguity, and maintain design throughput for time-sensitive client opportunities.

* Collaborate with Product and technical stakeholders to ensure that proposed designs are feasible and ready for production implementation.

Qualifications

Must-Have Skills

* Four or more years of product design or UX design experience.

* Strong UX and interaction-design capabilities, rather than primarily visual, graphic, or brand design experience.

* At least two years of experience working within or creating a design system or component library.

* Experience designing reusable components for modular or component-based design systems.

* Experience with responsive and mobile-first web design.

* Experience shipping responsive marketing pages, product pages, or comparable web experiences into production.

* Working knowledge of WCAG and ADA accessibility standards.

* Experience applying accessibility principles to web experiences, interaction states, or reusable components.

* Experience designing within the technical constraints of a CMS.

* Understanding of how CMS content structures, authoring requirements, and platform constraints affect component design.

* Advanced proficiency with Figma, including component libraries, variants, and Auto Layout.

* Professional experience using Claude.

* Professional experience using Claude Code.

* Ability to work independently and prioritize effectively within a broad or ambiguous scope.

Nice-to-Have Skills

* Experience using additional AI-assisted design or development tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or Figma AI.

* Marketing, landing-page, or campaign-page design experience.

* B2B or enterprise SaaS experience.

* Enterprise experience strongly preferred.

* SEO-aware web design experience.

* Chatbot or conversational UX design experience.

* Experience with recruiting technology, HR technology, career sites, or comparable sales-enablement client sites.

* Ecommerce design experience.

Additional Information

Required Tools & Platforms

* Figma, including component libraries and Auto Layout.

* Claude.

* Claude Code.

* Content management systems; specific CMS platform experience is not required.

* AI-assisted design or prototyping workflows.

Location, Time & Engagement

* Full-time remote contract engagement.

* Approximately 40 hours per week.

* Contract scheduled to run through November 30, 2026.

* Open to candidates located in the United States or LATAM.

* Pacific Time or Central Time alignment is preferred.