UX​/UI Designer

UX/UI Designer- 6-month contract

Boston, MA

Hybrid

Contract

$60/hr - $64/hr

This is a contract UX/UI Designer role supporting a public-facing digital platform used by a large and diverse user base. The position is hybrid within the Boston Area and embedded within a small, collaborative design group. The focus of the role is on user research, usability testing, and high-fidelity interface design, with heavy use of Figma and modern accessibility standards. This is a short-term contract engagement with consistent weekly hours.

This role is ideal for a designer who enjoys owning meaningful research-driven work and seeing their designs quickly move into production. You’ll work closely with product partners, engineers, researchers, and senior stakeholders to improve real-world digital experiences that impact a broad audience. The work emphasizes thoughtful problem-solving, accessibility, and facilitation. Offering a strong opportunity to deepen experience in service design, usability testing, and design systems while maintaining solid work-life balance.

Approximately 5–6 months

• 3+ years of experience in UX/UI or digital product design

• Strong experience planning and running usability testing

• Advanced proficiency with Figma, including high-fidelity prototyping

• Working knowledge of WCAG accessibility standards

• Ability to synthesize research findings into actionable design recommendations

• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams

• Background working in complex or highly regulated environments

• Experience contributing to or maintaining a design system

• Comfort facilitating design workshops and stakeholder sessions

• Familiarity with collaboration tools such as Miro

• Strong systems-thinking and service-design mindset

• Conducting and facilitating usability tests for web-based applications and content

• Translating research insights into accessible, user-centered UI solutions

• Designing and iterating on wireframes and production-ready interfaces

• Contributing components and patterns to an existing design system

• Reviewing UX/UI work produced by partner teams

• Collaborating with product, engineering, data, and policy stakeholders

• 60% UX/UI Design & Prototyping (Figma)

• 25% User Research & Usability Testing

• 15% Design System Contributions & Documentation

• 75% Hands-on design and research work

• 15% Stakeholder collaboration and facilitation

• 10% Documentation, reviews, and design system updates

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

• Vision Benefits

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

• Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

• Paid Sick Time Leave

• Legal and Identity Protection Plans

• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy.

Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted by: Grant Willoe

Specialization:

• UX/UI Design