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Senior Product Designer (Contract)

HTEC Momentum · Palo Alto, CA · 2 mo ago
HybridDesignFull-time

About the role

Momentum is not a place for narrow specialists. We are a true product design group: our designers move fluidly across the entire process—from hands-on research and insight gathering, to framing experience strategies, leading client workshops, crafting UX/UI systems, and embedding AI-driven thinking into product and service ecosystems. As a Senior Product Designer, you will shape outcomes at the intersection of business analysis, service design, and digital product experience. This requires craft, confidence, and the ability to guide both teams and clients through complexity.

Requirements

  • 4+ years of applicable product design experience with a portfolio that demonstrates both interaction and visual design at a high level of fidelity
  • Excellent written and spoken English; this is a 100% English-speaking role
  • Fluent across stages: skilled in research, synthesis, strategy, and UX/UI delivery; comfortable facilitating workshops and leading client conversations
  • Strong understanding of AI as both material and method
  • Proficient in Figma and other design tools; able to create modular, scalable design systems and prototypes that bring clarity to complex problems
  • Comfortable in distributed, multi-time-zone teams; eager to learn from peers and share knowledge; able to work across industries and contexts with clients as true partners

Skills

  • Curious, adaptable, empathetic, critical thinker who can defend design decisions with clarity and conviction
  • Mobility: Willingness to travel occasionally for client engagements or team activities (less than 20%)
  • Additional skills: Creating and conducting User/Customer/Stakeholder interviews, Solution Validation Interviews, and Usability Testing; Conducting current state assessments inclusive of heuristic evaluations and your expert analysis; Understanding, conceptualizing, creating and communicating user mental models, personas, user flow diagrams, journey maps, and other information architecture deliverables; Experimenting with motion, 3D, or emerging front-end technologies

Benefits

  • Create Impact: Influence real-world products and services at scale
  • Work Across Boundaries: Expand your range with projects spanning industries and markets
  • Collaborate Globally: Learn how design operates across cultures and contexts
  • Experiment with AI: Push the edges of how AI transforms discovery, design, and delivery
  • Grow Continuously: Learn from peers in design, data, engineering, and business strategy

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