Senior UX Designer (UX/UI/Brand) (Remote, US-Based, Contractor)

Variate is a company that designs customer experiences for ambitious global brands. They are seeking a Senior Product Experience Designer to lead high-impact digital experiences, focusing on measurable outcomes and collaboration with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Own the outcome - Lead major design initiatives from discovery to delivery. Define what success looks like, align teams around it, and deliver against clear business and customer metrics
• Raise the bar - Set design standards that elevate entire teams. Every flow, component, and presentation reflects purpose, precision, and intent
• Design for growth - Create experiences that convert, retain, and inspire. You measure your work in adoption, lift, and outcomes, not aesthetics
• Collaborate as a peer - Work directly with senior strategists, product leaders, engineers, founders, and executives. No layers of account management. Mastery is expected, not coached
• Move fast with discipline - Use AI as a force multiplier to accelerate exploration, synthesize insight, and compress delivery timelines without sacrificing quality

Requirements:

• 5+ years in UX or product design with clear, measurable business impact
• Deep expertise in systems, tokens, prototyping, and clean, scalable file architecture using Figma
• A strong understanding of user motivation, business context, and how decisions actually get made
• Clear, confident, and persuasive communication with senior stakeholders
• Expect excellence from yourself and others and hold yourself accountable for outcomes
• You have built or scaled a design system that improved speed, consistency, or adoption
• You have led workshops that shaped product or business strategy
• You have mentored other designers to operate at a higher level
• You have partnered with a well-known national brand, global brand, or respected design agency to drive measurable impact