#127306 - UX Designer

Summary

Lifted, an Upwork Company, is seeking a hands-on UX Designer to enhance messaging experiences across mobile and desktop products. The role involves designing new AI-powered features and improving communication patterns to facilitate user engagement and responsiveness.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end product experiences across mobile applications and desktop web
• Create wireframes, user journeys, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups
• Design user experiences for AI-powered messaging features
• Improve communication responsiveness through reply prompts, expectation setting, status transparency, and re-engagement patterns
• Simplify complex workflows and data-heavy experiences involving search, filtering, data export, or similar functionality
• Apply established design-system components, patterns, and visual standards
• Collaborate with Product Management, Engineering, UX Research, and Legal partners
• Incorporate qualitative research findings and user feedback into design iterations
• Support design validation through qualitative research and A/B testing
• Prepare clear design specifications and handoff materials for engineering teams
• Work independently, manage assigned design work, and ramp quickly with minimal oversight

Skills

• 3+ years of professional product UX design experience
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product UX work
• Strong interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and user-journey design skills
• Experience designing complex workflows or data-heavy enterprise product experiences
• Experience with search, filtering, data export, or comparable complex interaction patterns
• Ability to work independently and operate effectively with minimal oversight
• Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, Research, and Legal stakeholders
• Experience incorporating UX research findings and user feedback into product designs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Recent hands-on individual contributor experience
• Strong, current Figma proficiency
• Experience creating interactive prototypes
• Experience with design-to-engineering handoff workflows
• Experience working within an established design system
• Candidates must be located in the United States
• Must be available for full-time work at 40 hours per week
• Must be able to work with teams operating in the U.S. Central time zone
• Experience designing messaging, inbox, communications, or notification products
• Accessibility expertise, including familiarity with WCAG and assistive technologies
• Experience designing international or localized products
• Experience designing products for the Japanese market
• Mobile-first product design experience
• Experience supporting A/B testing or experimentation programs
• Prior contractor or embedded-team experience within a large product organization
• Experience designing AI-enabled product features

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 3+ years of professional product UX design experience
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end product UX work
• Strong interaction design, visual design, prototyping, and user-journey design skills
• Experience designing complex workflows or data-heavy enterprise product experiences
• Experience with search, filtering, data export, or comparable complex interaction patterns
• Ability to work independently and operate effectively with minimal oversight
• Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, Research, and Legal stakeholders
• Experience incorporating UX research findings and user feedback into product designs
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Recent hands-on individual contributor experience
• Strong, current Figma proficiency
• Experience creating interactive prototypes
• Experience with design-to-engineering handoff workflows
• Experience working within an established design system
• Candidates must be located in the United States
• Must be available for full-time work at 40 hours per week
• Must be able to work with teams operating in the U.S. Central time zone

Nice to Haves

• Experience designing messaging, inbox, communications, or notification products
• Accessibility expertise, including familiarity with WCAG and assistive technologies
• Experience designing international or localized products
• Experience designing products for the Japanese market
• Mobile-first product design experience
• Experience supporting A/B testing or experimentation programs
• Prior contractor or embedded-team experience within a large product organization
• Experience designing AI-enabled product features

Benefits

• Remote contract opportunity.
• Must be available for full-time work at 40 hours per week.
• Must be able to work with teams operating in the U.S. Central time zone.
• Contract is expected to continue through March 31, 2027.