UX / UI Designer III

Title: UX / UI Designer III Location: Philadelphia, PA Type: Contract Our direct client is seeking a Senior UX / UI Designer focused on creating, evolving, and maintaining a scalable, high-quality design system used across the organization. This role focuses on building consistent, accessible, and globally adaptable UI components and guidelines that empower teams to deliver cohesive user experiences worldwide. You'll collaborate closely with a team of UX / UI designers, product managers, engineers, front-end developers, content delivery managers, researchers, accessibility specialists, and brand partners to ensure the system reflects best practices, supports localization needs, and helps streamline design and development workflows across the organization. Key Accountabilities:

• Design, document, and refine reusable components that work across the website.
• Uphold consistent visual standards that can scale. Help establish rules around color palettes, iconography, spacing, and layout rules.
• Serve as a thought leader regarding usability and accessibility standards and principles. Knowledge of how accessibility is built into core design system components.
• Work closely with product managers, UX/UI designers, engineers, and product stakeholders.
• Build robust documentation to help ensure teams can easily adopt the design system, along with writing component usage guidelines and do/don't examples.
• Help define a process and rules for governance that all teams can adhere to.
• Participate in project definition activities and cross-team exercises to outline and document project scopes.
• Advocate for consistency, clarity, and ease of use for our customers.

Required Skills:

• Bachelor's degree in Graphic Design, User Experience, Interaction Design, HCI, Information Sciences, or Technology.
• 5-8 years of experience in UI, UX, or related roles designing digital experiences in agile development environments.
• Ability to work on multiple projects at once, demonstrating the agility needed to deliver on time and to standard.
• Ability to distill and organize large amounts of complex information into simple, usable application designs.
• Experience leading the design of global design systems.
• Proficiency with rapid prototyping tools and industry standard design tools, such as Figma.
• Experience with using publishing tools, such as zeroheight and Storybook.
• Strong technical acumen and an ability to understand new technologies.
• Familiarity with fundamentals of web and mobile OS.
• Familiarity with designing for CMS and component-based systems, as well as design delivery to content-management and development teams that support build-out of those systems.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills (both technical and non-technical).
• Skilled in designing applications that achieve both user and business objectives.
• Awareness of industry and competitor best practices.

Partner's Consulting is an award-winning IT Consulting and Recruiting firm based in the Philadelphia area. We've built personal relationships with our clients over many years and work directly with decision makers on all open positions. Our core values are focused on the highest level of professional dedication to our client's requirements coupled with our desire to partner with highly qualified talent for joint success. 179303-1