New

UI Designer

TEKsystems
$45.00 - $55.00 / hr
life insurance, sick time, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, New York, New York
Apr 07, 2026
UI Designer (Mobile) Hybrid - New York City (Manhattan) Must be based close enough to commute for inoffice collaboration About the Role We're looking for a UIcraftdriven Product Designer with strong visual instincts and experience designing consumerfacing digital products, with a focus on native mobile applications. This role is ideal for a designer who excels in highfidelity interface design, cares deeply about visual polish, and enjoys bringing clarity, personality, and refinement to product experiences. You'll partner closely with a senior product and UX lead, owning visual execution and helping translate product direction into elegant, productionready mobile interfaces. While mobile experience is important, we're especially interested in designers who demonstrate excellent UI craft, strong design fundamentals, and the ability to elevate product experiences through thoughtful visual design, interaction, and motion. This role plays a key part in raising the overall quality, creativity, and visual consistency of a largescale mobile app. What You'll Do * Design highfidelity UI for new features and enhancements across a native mobile app * Translate product requirements, user flows, and lowfidelity concepts into polished, visually compelling interfaces * Apply strong visual hierarchy, layout, typography, color, and spacing to guide user behavior and improve usability * Create interactive prototypes to communicate flows, interaction behavior, and edge cases * Design thoughtful loading states, progress indicators, empty states, and microinteractions that enhance perceived performance and delight * Work within and help evolve an established mobile design system, contributing refinements and visual improvements * Partner closely with engineering to ensure highquality execution and faithful implementation of designs * Balance multiple projects while maintaining a high bar for UI craft and attention to detail What We're Looking For * Strong visual UI craft demonstrated through a polished portfolio * 3-5 years of experience designing digital products, with meaningful experience in native mobile applications (iOS and/or Android) * Ability to take UX direction and product concepts and elevate them into highquality, highfidelity UI * Excellent understanding of visual design fundamentals, including typography, color, spacing, layout, and hierarchy * Advanced proficiency in Figma, including components, auto layout, variants, and libraries * Experience working within design systems or component libraries at scale * Comfort collaborating with product managers, UX partners, and engineers * Ability to produce productionready designs suitable for development handoff Nice to Have *** Experience with animation or motion design * Strong interaction design instincts and attention to microinteractions * Experience designing for consumerfacing or highvisibility products * Comfort contributing visual perspective in UXleaning environments Portfolio Expectations * Portfolio should showcase strong visual design and UI craft * Mobile app work is preferred, but we're open to designers with exceptional visual polish across platforms * Emphasis on highfidelity execution rather than researchheavy case studies * Demonstrated ability to elevate rough or lowfidelity concepts into refined interfaces * Realworld or shipped product work preferred over speculative projects * Bonus for showcasing motion, interaction details, or visual refinement Work Environment This is a hybrid role based in New York City, with inoffice collaboration expected several days per week. Why This Role Matters This role supports highly visible activation, onboarding, and acquisition experiences within a largescale mobile product. You'll act as a visual design counterpart to a UXleaning product lead, helping close a creativity and polish gap while directly shaping the look, feel, and quality of an experience used by millions. Job Type & LocationThis is a Contract position based out of New York, NY. Pay and BenefitsThe pay range for this position is $45.00 - $55.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: * Medical, dental & vision * Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital * 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available * Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) * Short and long-term disability * Health Spending Account (HSA) * Transportation benefits * Employee Assistance Program * Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace TypeThis is a hybrid position in New York,NY. Application DeadlineThis position is anticipated to close on Apr 17, 2026. h4>About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law. About TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services We're a leading provider of business and technology services. We accelerate business transformation for our customers. Our expertise in strategy, design, execution and operations unlocks business value through a range of solutions. We're a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 customers, including 80% of the Fortune 500 across North America, Europe and Asia, who partner with us for our scale, full-stack capabilities and speed. We're strategic thinkers, hands-on collaborators, helping customers capitalize on change and master the momentum of technology. We're building tomorrow by delivering business outcomes and making positive impacts in our global communities. TEKsystems and TEKsystems Global Services are Allegis Group companies. Learn more at TEKsystems.com. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.