Product Designer​/Design Engineer

Product Designer / Design Engineer

Strategic Staffing Solutions (S3) has an opening!

Location:

Iselin, NJ (Onsite required) 12+ Months W2 contract role Pay Rate: $70/HR

Must have:

• UI/UX experience
• Product team experience
• Building new product
• Figma experience
• PowerPoint design skills

The IAM Product and Architecture team is seeking an AI-fluent Product Designer / Design Engineer to accelerate how we design, validate, and ship user-centered experiences with quality and speed.

You will operate as a hybrid practitioner: strong in UX/product design, comfortable working "code-adjacent" (and ideally shipping coded components), and passionate about scaling impact through reusable patterns/components, experience design validation, and AI-assisted workflows (design exploration, prototyping acceleration, design-to-code).

Responsibilities:

• Lead and execute user-centered design (UCD) processes from discovery to delivery
• Translate complex functional requirements and user insights into simple, elegant, and accessible user interfaces built upon user flows, low- to high-fidelity wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes using Figma
• Align design decisions with business goals and user needs by strategically connecting or creating personas, experience journeys, and user flows
• Leverage AI-assisted workflows where appropriate to improve speed and quality (e.g., prototyping acceleration and design-to-code collaboration)
• Collaborate within Agile/Scrum teams, participating in sprints, stand-ups, planning sessions, and retrospectives
• Perform lightweight, early validation of designs and prototypes (e.g., time-boxed UX reviews, quick usability checks and accessibility basics) to catch issues before development and reduce rework

Required qualifications:

• 5+ years of UX design experience. Preference will be given to candidates who have experience designing complex solutions in diverse technology stacks.
• Proficiency in Figma for wire framing, prototyping, and design collaboration
• Solid understanding of User-Centered Design (UCD) principles, methods, and tools
• Strong experience working in Agile environments, closely collaborating with cross-functional teams
• Experience partnering closely with engineering on implementation details, including component behavior, states, and accessibility requirements for production-ready handoff
• Demonstrated ability to create and maintain detailed user journey maps and user flows
• Familiarity with usability testing, accessibility (WCAG), and responsive design best practices
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and visual – able to clearly articulate design decisions and rationale
• Experience with building and/or contributing to design systems
• Extensive experience in using and implementing UX design best practices to design solutions in large organizations
• Ability to work with stakeholders to understand strategic vision and detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet business goals and user needs

* Beware of scams. S3 never asks for money during its onboarding process