UX/UI Designer
1stClassGifts.com
Full-time
New York, NY
Job description
Job Title - UI/UX Designer
Duration - Fractional Opportunity
Position Summary:
We’re looking for a collaborative, strategic, and human-centered designer to lead workshops, craft digital experiences, and drive innovation through Design Thinking. As a Fractional UI/UX Designer, you’ll guide product strategy, co-create with clients, and help build a design-led culture—serving as both a facilitator and a creative partner in delivering insight-driven solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and facilitate engaging Design Thinking workshops—including empathy mapping, ideation, journey mapping, and prototyping
- Create personas, user journeys, and service blueprints based on user research and stakeholder input
- Lead collaborative sessions with clients to uncover opportunities, frame problems, and align on user-centric solutions
- Translate insights into wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs using tools like Figma, Adobe XD, or similar
- Define and document user stories, interaction models, and key flows to support product development
- Deliver clear, actionable recommendations and visual summaries post-workshop
- Act as an advocate and educator of human-centered design principles across internal and client teams
- Work closely with developers, product managers, and business stakeholders to ensure effective implementation
Preffered Skills:
- Experience designing for enterprise platforms or customer-facing digital products
- Understanding of product or business strategy and the ability to connect design to measurable impact
- Familiarity with Agile workflows and multi-disciplinary team collaboration
- Some working knowledge of HTML/CSS for better design-to-dev handoff (optional but helpful)
Qualifications:
- 3–5+ years of experience in UX/UI design, including mobile, web, and responsive product design
- Proven experience planning, facilitating, and delivering Design Thinking workshops
- Strong portfolio showcasing both design deliverables and workshop outcomes
- Skilled in tools such as Figma, Miro, Adobe XD, InVision, or equivalent
- Comfortable leading client-facing sessions, pitching ideas, and guiding strategic conversations
- Strong understanding of design systems, accessibility, and responsive frameworks
- Ability to adapt design approaches to suit business goals, timelines, and constraints
ABOUT ISHIR
ISHIR is a digital innovation and enterprise AI services provider. We work with startups and enterprises to shape the future through accelerated innovation, deep technical expertise, access to global digital talent and a passion for complex problem-solving. With our help, our clients overcome their most difficult digital challenges leveraging AI.
We are not just consultants, we are partners in our clients’ success, assisting them with re(gaining) competitive edge by identifying opportunities for differentiation, industry disruption, scalable innovation, and go-to-market strategies that deliver successful outcomes.
At ISHIR, we help bold businesses accelerate innovation through Talent, Speed-to-Market, and AI. We help make an impact by solving real problems using innovation, improved customer experiences and the right technologies.
As an ISHIR employee, you will get the advanced training you need to be successful, and the opportunity to apply it. You must be passionate about technology, crave responsibility, and be eager to apply your knowledge to real business solutions for our startup and enterprise customers. These are the qualities of a person destined for success at ISHIR.
ISHIR attracts a special type of individual—someone who is proactive, thrives on challenges, feeds off success, and looks at moving targets not as obstacles but as opportunities. ISHIR is an exciting place to work. It is imbued with an entrepreneurial spirit and promotes self-reliance, open communication, and collaboration
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $30.00 - $50.00 per hour
Work Location: Remote