UX Designer (Part time – Contract)

About the role

Workforce Edge, a Strategic Education company, helps employers transform education benefits into meaningful talent strategies that support career mobility, close skill gaps, and improve employee retention. We are seeking a freelance UX Designer to create intuitive, user-centered digital experiences for WorkforceEdge.com. This part-time contract role will shape user flows, interaction patterns, wireframes, prototypes, and polished interfaces that make the platform clear, effective, and easy to use. The ideal candidate brings strong visual and interaction design skills, confidence working within an established design system, and the ability to collaborate effectively in a remote environment.

Responsibilities

• Create user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and interactive prototypes for new and existing WorkforceEdge.com experiences.
• Translate stakeholder goals, business requirements, and user needs into intuitive, on-brand interface solutions.
• Maintain consistency with established visual standards, interaction patterns, brand guidelines, and design-system components.
• Review current pages and user journeys, identify usability opportunities, and recommend practical improvements.
• Partner with product, marketing, and cross-functional stakeholders to turn ideas into implementation-ready designs.
• Participate in design critiques and reviews, incorporating feedback efficiently and thoughtfully.
• Clearly communicate design rationale, tradeoffs, and recommendations to both design and non-design stakeholders.
• Provide design specifications and collaborate with developers to support accurate implementation.

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s degree in UX Design, Interaction Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Product Design, Information Architecture, or a related field preferred. Equivalent practical experience will also be considered.

Experience: One to three years of UX/UI design experience, preferably supporting marketing, consumer-facing web, agency, in-house, or freelance projects.

Skills

• Advanced proficiency in Figma, including shared libraries, components, Auto Layout, variables, and design tokens.
• Ability to work confidently within an established design system from the start of the engagement.
• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS, with an understanding of implementation constraints and developer handoff needs.
• Proficiency with Adobe Creative Suite.
• Strong visual design, interaction design, and usability fundamentals.
• A current portfolio featuring case studies that demonstrate individual design decisions, process, and outcomes.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain design decisions to non-designers.
• Strong attention to detail, organization, and ability to meet deadlines with minimal oversight.
• Comfort working independently and communicating progress asynchronously in a remote environment.
• Collaborative mindset and ability to build productive working relationships across teams.

Schedule

• 20–30 hours per week; flexible scheduling within normal business hours.

Work Arrangement: Fully remote. Start Date: Flexible, ideally within the next few weeks.