Senior Product Designer

Summary

Join Upwork's Hybrid Workforce Solutions Team as a UX Designer and contribute to the world's work marketplace. You will collaborate with various teams to design and implement user-centric experiences across multiple channels. This role requires strong UX design skills, experience with Figma, and the ability to lead projects from start to finish. You will be responsible for crafting experiences, building design assets, and working closely with developers to deliver polished products. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience in UX design, a strong portfolio showcasing their work, and excellent communication skills.

Requirements

• Demonstrated ability with 3+ years industry experience as a UX designer dedicated to the complete UX design and development lifecycle of several successfully launched desktop or mobile applications
• Experience at crafting experiences across multiple channels and operating systems including desktop and mobile
• Must be self-motivated, excellent communicator, as comfortable taking direction as you are giving it
• Able to successfully lead all aspects of a project from start to finish
• Fluent English
• Availability to take meetings during the Pacific Timezone workday (Required minimum overlap of 8:30 am–12 pm)
• An outstanding portfolio (Please include a link or PDF portfolio containing detailed UX case studies (minimum 3) as well as examples of strong visual design. Designers without a portfolio will not be considered.)
• Experience designing and prototyping using Figma

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with user researchers, product managers, data scientists, developers, and other designers to frame problems and take ideas from ideation through implementation
• Demonstrate high quality design practices by ensuring decisions are made with appropriate user insight and follow existing UX/UI systems while making well-informed decisions to create new patterns
• Lead projects through an end to end design process: research, ideation, strategy, information architecture, interaction design, launch and testing
• Build a variety of design assets to communicate your concepts to a broad range of partners and end users; ranging from strategy and experience concepts to detailed design systems and assets
• Work closely with developers to deliver a polished final product