User Experience Jobs

Onward Search's client is looking for an experienced UI designer to join their growing team. While driving the visual design of our web properties and applications, you’ll work with the end customer and the agency UX team to re-build and re-design an existing B2C and B2B portal. Skills: Previous experience working with a mobile portal and online presence. Exceptional interactive design abilities. An understanding of user behaviors as they relate to web design. Experience with UI design, ability to follow brand guidelines and style guides. A handle on trends in user interface design trends. Client facing ability, and clear communication to be able to articulate the process to the end client. Requirements: 5+ years of UI design experience. Bachelor’s degree in art or design. Up-to-date resume and portfolio. Proficiency with InVision and the Adobe Creative Suite. Does this role sound like you? To learn more about this opportunity, apply now!

Onward Search's client, a Fortune 500 organization, is seeking a UI Mobile Production Designer to join their quickly growing UX and Design team. The ideal candidate will be driven by working on innovative, award-winning work with a team that prioritizes fun, flexibility, and creativity. Working on multiple iOS, Android, and Responsive Web Apps, you are the final checkpoint in a creative design process, responsible for creating a finished product that meets agency and client branding goals. You ensure brand guidelines are being maintained across color, font, production quality and more. You scale and crop, retouch, resize, change the layout and make sure everything is done to specs. Skills: Create assets for iOS and Android for multiple device sizes and resolutions. Assist in conceptualizing, designing, and executing new interactive ideas. Ability to define and offer multiple content/creative solutions to a task. Staying up-to-date on the latest design trends, newest digital platforms, and competitive landscape and apply best practices to all work. Create pixel perfect UI elements: illustrations, icons, photos and meticulous production of high-fidelity visual design comps. Create and manage visual design documentation and specifications. Collaborate closely with development to make sure designs are implemented as intended. Support design consistency and quality across multiple digital channels, device platforms, and screen resolutions. Maintain relevancy in the field by monitoring digital trends, new tools, and workflows, attending workshops, and joining professional groups. Brainstorm big ideas in a group setting and express your opinion. Understand and interpret brand, user, and business needs, to develop innovative, creative, and results-oriented digital solutions. Effectively manage time, prioritize tasks and work within deadlines Requirements: Minimum of 3 years’ design experience with iOS, Android or e-commerce. Must know the difference between CMYK, RGB, and HEX. Robust knowledge of Sketch, Zeplin, Invision and Adobe CS Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, etc.) Excellent typographic skills and visual craftsmanship with strong design sensibilities. Basic retouching skills required. Must be a collaborative, team player and great initiative with strong communication skill. High organized with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and efficiently with a strong sense of urgency. Must be detail-oriented with superior follow-through. Strong portfolio demonstrating high-caliber visual communication, web, mobile design and production skills. Bachelor's degree in visual or graphics design, BA in a related field, or equivalent work experience. Experience designing responsive pages as well as generating assets varying resolutions, screen sizes, and pixel densities for both for iOS and Android. An understanding of current mobile and desktop patterns. Proven ability to work within brand guidelines to create compelling visual solutions. Education or experience in user-centered design techniques. Ability to collaborate effectively with Information Architecture to translate Wireframes into works of art. Understanding of capabilities and limitations of front-end technologies, including CSS, HTML, and JavaScript (you will not be expected to code). Excellent communication, organizational, and time management skills. Must be highly motivated, confident and a passionate team player. Do the skills and competencies above match your own? Apply today!

Onward Search is looking for a Digital UI Designer to join our digital agency client in Atlanta for an onsite contract-to-hire role! You'll be responsible for hands-on design work across a wide variety of digital and interactive projects including websites, mobile apps, custom portals, web apps, CMS systems, and platforms. Skills: Your focus will be on UI and digital design and not UX, architecture, video, or print/traditional design. Your portfolio should primarily feature samples of that type of work. This is a client-facing role, and you will be asked to sit in on client meetings and interact with them to better understand their creative and design needs. This is a digital role and experience, and portfolio work should be primarily if not exclusively in the digital space. Requirements: 2-3 years of experience in hands-on digital design, UI design, web design, interactive design, mobile design or similar design fields. Agency experience strongly preferred. Bachelor's Degree in design, marketing, or a similar field. Ability to work within tight and aggressive deadlines. Expert proficiency in tools such as Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Sketch, etc. Experience in UX design including wireframing, prototyping, and UX strategy as well as associated tools is a plus but is NOT required. This is NOT a UX design role. Must be a bright, articulate, self-starter who can take the initiative and bring new ideas to the table Professional, efficient, organized, detail-oriented, have excellent follow-through and thrive in a fast-paced environment Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS is a plus Collaborative nature, excellent communicator. Solid grammar and writing skills, very organized, detail-oriented, process driven. An ability to work both independently and collaboratively. Absolutely no egos allowed. A clean, modern portfolio showcasing DIGITAL design work is required at the time of submission. Does this sound like you? Apply today!

Our client, a mobile product agency, is in search of a freelance Product Designer to join their team for an eight-week freelance project. You will be leverage iconography, typography, color, space and texture to provide an inspiring experience to users across the client base along with the following skills outlined below!  Skills: Leverage iconography, typography, color, space and texture to provide an inspiring experience to users across the client base. Utilize user-centered design best-in-class principles to produce amazing visual from concept to execution across platforms. Collaborate with your design and UX team to continually refine the brand's design language to create great-looking, innovative products. Work among a broad design team which includes engineers, product managers and other designers in a fast-paced yet collaborative environment. Act as a client-facing member of the design team, presenting your ideas internally as well as to the client, clearly communicating intention in your work and can discuss with strategic rationale. Requirements: 3-7 years of mobile app design experience. You come from a design background, bringing your knowledge of color theory, branding, iconography, and typography. You have developed amazing digital and mobile experiences. Have worked in an Agile product environment understanding the full product life-cycle and how your work affects the overall process. You have complete knowledge of the product lifestyle and can lend a hand in filling gaps left by UX process including sketching designs, user research, etc. You can manage multiple work streams autonomously but can work as part of a broader design team including product managers, developers, and designers. You have designed both consumer and internal facing products. You take pride in executing with an obsessive need for quality and creativity. Your resume and portfolio are formatted, clean and navigable. Do these skills match your background and experience? Apply today!  

Onward Search has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Product Designer with our design agency client in San Francisco, CA. This is a 12-month contract, 40 hrs/wk, onsite in San Francisco, CA. Responsibilities include: Working cross-functionally to ensure product teams up for success, and guiding less experienced designers on projects Providing insight and direction on various projects, from ideation through prototyping and delivering a completed product Shaping and running user testing sessions Managing expectations and challenges to teams and communicating the vision for the design team Improving working practices by fostering effective working relationships with leads in other disciplines Motivating the team to work with the client's concepts and encouraging a culture of showing and shipping early and often Contributing to progressing and improving the client's company culture Requirements: Proven experience leading projects from completion to launch/shipped products across a variety of platforms Experience in ensuring pixel perfection and visualizing and prototyping concepts fast to communicate ideas Extensive interaction design experience and deep knowledge and expertise in product design (particularly in B2C product design) Core strengths in visual design (from UI, branding, iconography, and art direction) Solid understanding across some of the client's other core disciplines (Motion, Interaction, and Service Design) Strong knowledge of design tools and workflows Experience in Agile & Scrum methodologies Strong written and verbal communication style Self-sufficient, able to lead a project with little to no supervision Leader, go-getter attitude Nice to have experience: Prototyping tools like Principle, Framer, etc. Motion design experience (i.e. After Effects)  

Onward Search has an exciting opportunity for a Product / UI Design Director to join the team of a growing consumer internet company that has several large wellness and lifestyle brands under its belt. You will work as part of our client's Product team and will drive the current and next-generation design of their multi-platform properties. Their goal is to level-up their design, and you will be a key player in cultivating this.S Skills: Manage and execute on the entire product development and design process across mobile, web, and tablet from conception to launch. Implement and communicate the creative vision to support objectives across all brand touch points. Oversee a team of product and content designers & freelancers. Create and design branded campaigns. Design UI for consumer-facing websites as well as the UI for their internal tools used by their editorial and brand teams. Requirements: 8+ years of experience in visual and product design. Strong in Sketch or similar prototyping software. Proficient in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign. Proficient in After Effects or other animation software is a bonus. MUST have a curated portfolio with a modern aesthetic. Must have team management experience. Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment. Passion for building beautifully crafted experiences – incredible attention to detail in usability and design with a proven track-record for producing high-quality experiences. Does this sound like you? Apply today!    

Our client is looking for an experienced UX designer to join their growing team. While translating design concepts into effective, useful information architectures, you’ll create solutions that address user, brand and business requirements. This will involve working closely with design team to establish project scope, building wireframes and incorporate existing UX models, and utilizing prototypes to test designs. Skills: An understanding of UX design across mobile and desktop platforms Experience with UX design, especially building and editing wireframes Presentation skills and exceptional communication skills Comfort with prototype software Requirements: 3+ years of experience in UX design at an agency or web design shop Bachelor’s degree (preferred in marketing or technical-related major) Experience with Sketch a MUST Experience designing across multiple platforms Sound like you? To learn more about this opportunity, apply now

Onward Search is on the hunt for a UX / UI Designer for our Entertainment client's digital product team. You'll be responsible for shaping our client's digital properties including the brand look and feel and usability to create an excellent user experience. You will be in charge of creating innovative design solutions. Skills: Work closely with product and technology teams to create a world-class user experience. Create detailed visual comps. Creation of low-to-high fidelity prototypes where necessary. Contribute and collaborate with team members in making key product decisions. Responsible for meeting expectations and deliverables on time and in high quality. Create the appropriate UX / UI solution and defining the vision of the end-to-end user experience. Be an end-user advocate, driving user needs and goals into both creative and pragmatic design solutions. Demonstrate the ability to quickly execute design work with a high standard for quality within time and technical constraints. Experience in creating iconography. Digital production and re-sizing of ads where necessary. You will be expected to stay up to date on current trends in interaction design for web, mobile, desktop, and mobile apps. Requirements: 2+ Years of experience designing for in-house marketing teams, and/ or digital agencies. Must have a contemporary aesthetic showcasing design both executed and the concept of digital products. Must have an understanding of mobile and digital best practices. Must be able to work with product and development teams to get ideas built.

Onward Search's client, a massive marketing based agency heavily focused in the AdTech space, is looking for a Director, Product Management to help run their current team in NYC. This candidate must have a passion for creating cutting edge, innovative products across all industries. Experience must include working on the full lifecycle of building engaging customer products. In this role, you will be working closely with c-suite internal employees as well as high-level stakeholders. You must be able to concisely and merely walk through product road-maps for all stakeholders, designers, and developers. Projects will be ranging across all digital verticals (including Blockchain based projects). Skills and Requirements: 7+ years in Digital Product experience. MUST have extensive experience in the AdTech space. Experience in running a Product team within a large organization. Strong Creative and Technical experience. Extensive experience with working hand in hand with UX and Dev teams. Solid communication skills. Ability to juggle multiple projects at one time. This role starts immediately for the right candidate. Apply today!  

Onward Search is on the hunt for a UX Designer for our entertainment client for a long-term contract position. You will work as a part of our client's UX Design studio, and be responsible for the support of current as well as the next-generation design of our client's multi-platform entertainment experiences. Skills: Work with UX Leads, Product managers, and engineers to create high-quality user-centered solutions. You will help with brainstorming, ideation, rapid-prototyping and other problem-solving with user experience and graphic designers, engineers, and other stakeholders on multiple projects. You will be delivering and/ or contributing to the creation of briefs, user scenarios, and storyboards, flow charts, annotated wireframes, and any other documentation that defines the user experience. You will work closely with research teams to support usability and focus group test plans as well as prototype support. Requirements: 4+ Years experience in user-centered design, user requirements, analysis and usability testing/ user research. Proficient in industry-standard design processes. Exceptional web, consumer electronics and/ or similar entertainment product design that is well-thought out and of high quality. Examples of cross-platform design that demonstrates the ability to account for considerations across multiple devices. Ability to write clear, concise and thorough specification documents. Must have a passion for entertainment. Must be inquisitive, able to define your process, and how you create solutions. Must be a problem solver able to meet the needs of each market. Must be agile and able to work in fast pace environments. Does this sound like you? Apply today!