About This Role
This senior role is for a UX/UI Designer with a strong emphasis on visual design excellence, responsible for elevating the visual and experiential quality of the company's digital products. The designer will own the Freebird design system, the UI across digital surfaces, and the visual quality bar for the team. They will work closely with the Senior Director of Design and collaborate with product and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Create beautiful, polished, premium digital experiences that represent Freebird at its best across every touchpoint
- Take good interfaces and make them exceptional through meticulous attention to typography, layout, color, spacing, and visual detail
- Apply a strong visual point of view that pushes design beyond execution and into craft
- Maintain a consistently high quality bar across web and app surfaces without needing to be managed on the basics
- Set the visual standard that the rest of the design team builds toward
- Own the component library, design tokens, and pattern documentation in Figma
- Maintain version control and governance so the system grows predictably and consistently
- Act as the consistency gatekeeper: reviewing team output, flagging deviations, and evolving the system as the product expands
- Collaborate with engineers on implementation so that what's designed is what ships
- Create clear specifications that enable smooth, low-back-and-forth implementation
- Design responsive, accessible experiences across desktop and mobile, led by strong visual instinct
- Create user journeys, wireframes, and prototypes that are both functionally sound and visually sharp
- Apply UX knowledge to make well-structured, user-centered design decisions independently
- Validate and improve designs using product data and customer feedback after launch
- Take stakeholder briefs to polished, production-ready designs within sprint cadence
- Deliver complete handoffs to engineering: specs, interaction notes, edge-case coverage
- Contribute to sprint planning and grooming by estimating accurately and delivering on commitments
- Support design quality reviews so that what ships matches what was designed
- Bring a strong visual point of view to critiques and team discussions
- Support junior designers and help establish shared ways of working as the function grows
- Present design decisions clearly and respond constructively to feedback at all levels, including from a CEO with strong design opinions
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as an exceptional UI/UX designer with a strong emphasis on visual design
- Outstanding craft in visual design
