Contract User Experience Designer

Echodyne is seeking a Contract UX Designer to assist our in-house designer on features related to the EchoWare software portfolio. 

Contract Length - 6 months

ROLE OVERVIEW

This role is embedded with the core EchoWare team and maintains close coordination to ensure alignment with current capabilities, long-term plans, and evolving design standards. You will work at the intersection of product, engineering, solutions engineering and customers – translating user needs and business requirements into compelling experiences.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create user flows, mockups, and low and high-fidelity prototypes. 
• Collaborate with current UX designer to ensure alignment to overall product vision. 
• Develop and iterate designs based on user feedback and stakeholder input. 
• Ensure consistency with establish design systems, brand guidelines, and accessibility standards.   
• Partner closely with development teams throughout implementation to ensure design quality and fidelity. 
• Communicate design concepts and rationale clearly to cross-functional teams and leadership. 
• Support and contribute to design system evolution and component libraries. 

REQUIRED SKILLS / EXPERIENCE

• 3+ years of user design experience in both mobile and web. 
• Proficiency with using Figma as a design tool. 
• Demonstrated experience supporting the iterative design process from end-to-end, including wire-frames, prototypes, user testing, and high-fidelity visuals. 
• Strong communication skills, adept at customer interviewing and other methods of customer engagement. 
• Experience creating and/or contributing to design systems. 
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and making thoughtful tradeoffs. 
• Collaborative, detail-oriented, and customer-centric mindset. 

Echodyne’s technology is export controlled by the U.S. Government and we must evaluate an applicant’s eligibility to handle export-controlled information or obtain required Government authorizations.  Therefore, we will ask you as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or green card holder, or have asylum/refugee status in the U.S. 

WHAT WE OFFER

This is a non-exempt role.