UX/UI Designer | Onsite

Summary

Photon is a company seeking a UI/UX Designer to explore and visualize innovative user experiences and interfaces. The role involves collaborating with various teams to translate insights into compelling design concepts and prototypes.

Responsibilities

• Explore multiple UX and UI concepts during early-stage discovery and ideation
• Translate insights, briefs, and creative direction into innovative experience concepts
• Create low-fidelity and high-fidelity concepts to visualize new product or feature ideas
• Experiment with new interaction models, layouts, and visual approaches
• Participate in brainstorming sessions, design sprints, and creative workshops
• Collaborate with UX researchers to translate user insights into design opportunities
• Work closely with creative leads and strategists to define experience direction
• Contribute to defining creative territories and experience principles
• Develop wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes to communicate concepts
• Use prototypes to explore ideas, test assumptions, and refine creative directions
• Create concept demos and visual narratives for presentations
• Explore emerging design trends, tools, and interaction patterns
• Identify opportunities to improve usability, engagement, and emotional connection
• Push creative boundaries while maintaining usability and accessibility
• Support early-stage concept testing and feedback sessions
• Iterate designs based on user feedback, research insights, and stakeholder input
• Refine concepts to strengthen clarity, usability, and creative impact
• Present design concepts, rationale, and creative thinking to stakeholders
• Clearly communicate design intent, user value, and experience vision
• Create concept decks, design documentation, and visual storytelling materials

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3–7+ years of experience in UI/UX design, product design, or experience design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating concept development and UX/UI design thinking
• Experience creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes
• Strong visual design and interaction design skills
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar
• Experience working in early-stage product discovery, innovation, or creative teams
• Strong conceptual thinking and creative problem-solving abilities
• Experience collaborating with UX research and creative strategy teams
• Familiarity with design thinking and human-centered design methodologies
• Experience designing for multiple platforms (web, mobile, emerging interfaces)

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Interaction Design, Visual Design, or related field (or equivalent experience)
• 3–7+ years of experience in UI/UX design, product design, or experience design
• Strong portfolio demonstrating concept development and UX/UI design thinking
• Experience creating wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes
• Strong visual design and interaction design skills
• Proficiency in design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, or similar

Nice to Haves

• Experience working in early-stage product discovery, innovation, or creative teams
• Strong conceptual thinking and creative problem-solving abilities
• Experience collaborating with UX research and creative strategy teams
• Familiarity with design thinking and human-centered design methodologies
• Experience designing for multiple platforms (web, mobile, emerging interfaces)

Benefits

• Medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 401k retirement plan
• Variable pay/incentives
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• This position is available for independent contractors