UX Director

Our client, a global financial technology company is seeking a visionary UX Director to join its Experience Design organization. This is a fully remote 3-month assignment (40 hrs/week) with a strong possibility of extension. This leader will play a critical role in defining problem spaces, shaping strategic direction, and establishing the creative frameworks that empower product designers to deliver world-class user experiences across the companies core app. This role sits within the Core App pod, which owns foundational experiences such as the home tab, activity, profile, account, and onboarding surfaces. The work requires mastery in simplifying complex information architectures while elevating brand presence, visual craft, and interaction quality. Responsibilities: - Define and frame core problems, opportunities, and design objectives to guide pod level execution. - Lead the creation of design strategies, concepts, and narratives that set the vision for world-class product experiences. - Deliver high impact visual and interaction design work that elevates quality across pods and aligns with the broader design system. - Drive concept explorations, prototypes, creative directions, and storytelling that influence product and business partners. - Mentor and guide designers across the pod, with 2-3 direct reports while acting primarily as a craft leader and strategic partner. - Inspire teams through provocative thinking, visionary design explorations, and clear articulation of strategy. - Partner with product, research, content, and design leadership to ensure alignment, momentum, and cohesive experience delivery. - Present design strategy and work in persuasive, visually compelling ways that secure stakeholder buy in. - Introduce bold, user motivated concepts that stretch product conventions without straying from usability or brand integrity. - Balance brand expression with interaction excellence, shaping experiences that combine utility, clarity, and emotional resonance. - Expand and refine design capabilities, including motion, system thinking, and advanced design tooling. - Uphold a culture of kindness, collaboration, curiosity, and strong design point of view within the team. Requirements: - Minimum 12 years of experience in consumer facing digital product design. - Demonstrated ability to influence design direction through exceptional craft, strategic framing, and visionary leadership. - A portfolio that shows meaningful shifts in product quality, brand expression, or interaction design innovation. - Mastery across visual design, interaction design, layout, hierarchy, composition, and storytelling. - Strong ability to communicate design strategy through presentations, prototypes, narrative storytelling, and business alignment. - Proven success mentoring, inspiring, and elevating designers through clear guidance and hands-on craft. - Comfortable challenging conventions with ambitious concepts while maintaining product coherence and brand fit. - Strong understanding of information architecture, navigation systems, and simplifying complex content without losing depth. - Passion for studying consumer behavior, cultural trends, and retail/commerce ecosystems. - Deep sensitivity to the relationship between brand, content, visuals, and interaction systems. - Thrives independently while serving as a creative role model for designers across pods. In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. Benefits Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service. Email Your Resume In Word To bcarter@creativecircle.com Looking forward to receiving your resume through our website and going over the position with you. Clicking apply is the best way to apply. Please do NOT change the email subject line in any way. You must keep the JobID: linkedin : WC3-1976004 -- in the email subject line for your application to be considered. Billy Carter - Recruiter, National Delivery For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.This is a new role. This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 01/28/2026 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed. 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