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# lead UX/UI designer

- **Company:** Government Services Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $104,000.0 - $135,200.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Confluence, JIRA, Software as a Service, Microsoft Office, Software Prototyping, Microsoft Copilot, Web Applications, Usage Analysis, Adobe, Amplitude Analytics, Figma, Claude
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.builtincolorado.com/job/lead-ux-ui-designer-temporary/11996796?handler=ApplyRedirect

## About the Role

* 6+ years designing digital products, with a portfolio that shows process, decisions and outcomes, not just final screens.
 * Strong UI craft in Figma: components, variants, auto layout, and working inside an existing design
 * system.
 * Hands-on research skills: you've planned, run and synthesized interviews and usability tests, and can show how findings changed a design.
 * Fast ramp-up: you've joined teams mid-project and been productive within your first week.
 * Complex B2B or enterprise experience: dashboards, tables, multi-step workflows, and users who live in the tool all day.
 * Practical AI fluency: you use AI tools in your real workflow and know where human expertise has to stayin charge.
 * Ownership and follow-through: you deliver what you commit to, track your own deadlines, and flag risks early with a proposed solution.
 * Clear, open communication: with the UX team and with stakeholders at every level. You share work early and often instead of working in a silo, keep the team updated through Teams and Jira, and you're comfortable giving and receiving direct feedback.
 * Proactive in ambiguity: you ask the right questions, state your assumptions, and keep work moving

## Description

* Keep design work moving. Pick up in-flight features and deliver high-fidelity designs in Figma.
 * Work within our design system. Use existing components and patterns, and help organize and optimize how the team works with the system.
 * Partner with engineering. Write clear specs and handoff, and answer questions during build. Then: research, strategy and how we work
 * Plan and run user research. Interviews, usability tests and synthesis that turn into clear recommendations.
 * Shape product decisions. Frame problems with product and engineering, and weigh impact, feasibility and uncertainty.
 * Use AI as a working partner. In research, synthesis, prototyping and documentation, while you own the judgment.
 * Improve and document our process. Propose changes, test new tool features, and document what works.
 * Teach as you go. Share techniques with the team through pairing, short sessions and docs, so the gains outlast your time with us., The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead UX design efforts, manage projects, conduct user research, and create design resources for web applications. They will collaborate with teams to develop intuitive solutions and mentor junior designers., The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead UX design efforts, manage multiple projects, conduct user research, and collaborate with federal clients to create intuitive designs for web applications. They will create wireframes, manage design resources, and mentor junior designers while ensuring adherence to compliance standards., The Senior UI/UX Designer will lead UI/UX design projects, collaborate with federal clients, conduct user research, and create design resources for web applications.
Top Skills: Adobe XdCSSHTMLIllustratorIndesignJavaScriptPhotoshop

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