Senior User Experience Designer

Position Overview

We’re partnering with a large-scale, customer-centric retailer to hire a remote Senior/Lead UX Designer with deep design systems expertise. In this role, you will work to evolve and scale a multi-platform system (web, iOS, Android), ensuring consistency and speed across consumer-facing and employee-facing digital products. Compensation: $67.00 - $90.00 per hour (W2). This contract position is for 12 months.

Key Responsibilities

• Design System Strategy: Identify and prioritize system enhancements that improve component usability, accessibility, and scalability across platforms.
• Component & Pattern Creation: Design, document, and deliver robust Figma component libraries and patterns; define variants, tokens, auto-layout, responsive behavior, and accessibility standards aligned to coded implementations.
• Governance & Maintenance: Establish and maintain processes for versioning, contribution, and lifecycle management to keep the system healthy and efficient.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with engineering, product, and design teams to deliver new system capabilities that drive business outcomes and user experience quality.
• Documentation & Education: Create comprehensive usage guidelines and training materials; champion system adoption through education and support.
• AI Exploration: Evaluate and apply AI tools and workflows that improve system efficiency, documentation, accessibility, and design-to-code alignment.
• Continuous Improvement: Track industry trends and tools; proactively refine processes to boost quality, scalability, and team productivity.

Required Qualifications

• At least 4 years of experience focused on designing, building, and maintaining large-scale design systems, ideally at a senior/lead level.
• Expertise in Figma, including component libraries, design tokens, variants, auto-layout, versioning, and plugins, with a proven ability to deliver high-quality, reusable components and patterns.
• Experience creating systems for web, iOS, and Android with strong responsive design skills and platform-specific UI knowledge.
• Strong grasp of WCAG and inclusive design principles with the ability to embed accessibility standards in components, tokens, and documentation.
• A portfolio showcasing system-level thinking, component creation, comprehensive documentation, and design-to-code parity.
• Experience in agile, cross-functional environments with excellent communication and storytelling skills grounded in logic and data.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience applying AI tools and workflows to improve design system processes (e.g., component creation, documentation, accessibility audits, or design-to-code implementations).
• Familiarity with governance models, contribution workflows, and lifecycle management for complex, enterprise-scale systems.
• Strength in information architecture, interaction design, and visual design within system constraints.
• Experience ensuring multi-platform parity and close collaboration with developers to maintain consistency across frameworks and design kits.
• Demonstrated core behaviors such as system orientation, collaboration, curiosity, strategic thinking, empathy (accessibility-first), and adaptability in ambiguous environments.

Benefits & Perks

• Dahl Consulting offers a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees, allowing you to choose coverage that meets your family’s needs.
• For detailed information, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary at https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.