<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">We’re looking for a powerhouse UX practitioner with a proven track record of creating successful human-centered digital experiences. You bring strategic thinking, strong research synthesis, and hands-on design craft to complex digital challenges. You’re comfortable collaborating with cross-disciplinary teams and using modern tools, including the latest AI-enabled design and productivity tools, to work smarter and push ideas further.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Modus Digital is an independent company of Advisors & Creators for the world’s leading brands. We define strategies that drive businesses forward and create experiences that people love. We believe digital experiences are human experiences, technology is transformative, and real innovation yields real results. We’re headquartered in New York City with offices throughout the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Our UX Designer- Contractor collaborates with our Experience Design team, working across a wide range of clients and products.</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Responsibilities</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Shape creative strategy and conceptual UX direction for digital products and experiences</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Participate in discovery, including stakeholder interviews, user research, analytics review, and user needs analysis</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Synthesize research findings into clear insights, opportunities, and recommendations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Develop personas, customer journeys, sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and functional specifications</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Conduct UX heuristic audits of existing software, websites, and digital products</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Design conceptual prototypes and detailed annotated wireframes to align stakeholders and guide development</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Structure information architecture, navigation systems, content taxonomies, component models, and data-driven experiences</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Design across conversational UI, responsive websites, large templated sites, native mobile apps, enterprise platforms, and digital products</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Collaborate closely with product owners, UI designers, content strategists, engineers, project managers, account teams, and client stakeholders</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Present research, concepts, UX strategy, and design recommendations clearly and confidently to internal teams and clients</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Work independently and proactively with remote, cross-functional teams while managing priorities and deadlines</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Report progress, communicate risks or dependencies, and contribute to project planning as needed</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 300">Perform other duties related to the position as assigned</span></li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold">Qualifications</span></p>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">3–5 years of UX design experience, preferably at a digital consultancy, agency, or product-focused organization</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">College degree or equivalent experience in communications, marketing, cognitive science, research, design, or a related field; advanced degree is a plus</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Strong portfolio demonstrating thoughtful, user-centered solutions across multiple devices, platforms, and experience types</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Mastery of core UX deliverables, including research findings, personas, journey maps, sitemaps, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, data visualizations, and functional specs</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Experience uncovering user needs and behaviors, defining UX problems, and translating insights into simple, powerful digital experiences</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Experience with complex data applications, multiple data sources, data models, and user-friendly data visualizations</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Knowledge of user research methods across the product development lifecycle, from discovery and persona research to usability testing</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Experience conducting stakeholder, product team, engineering, and end-user interviews with both technical and non-technical audiences</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Ability to take legacy products and define a modern UX vision for them</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Experience working with component-based enterprise design systems</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Experience working with scrum teams and Agile methodologies</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Excellent proficiency in UX and design tools, including Figma and Adobe Creative Suite. Strong command of structured Figma practices, including auto layout, component properties, variants, slots, naming conventions, and file organization, with awareness of how well-structured design files support handoff and AI-assisted development workflows.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Fluency with emerging AI tools and workflows that support UX design, prototyping, research synthesis, and collaboration, including Figma Make, Claude, and other AI-enabled tools</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Strong understanding of UX design principles, information architecture, interaction design, accessibility, and emerging technology</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: 10pt">Excellent communication, collaboration, writing, and presentation skills</span></li>
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Application Requirements
Candidates must have 3–5 years of UX design experience and a strong portfolio demonstrating user-centered solutions. Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and modern AI-enabled design tools is required, along with a degree in a relevant field.