Summary
Lifted, an Upwork Company, is seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer to support a career-site platform. The role involves executing product design work, creating reusable components, and ensuring accessible, responsive web experiences across various platforms.
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
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
- 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
Qualifications
Must Haves
- 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 Haves
- 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
Benefits
- 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