TalentBurst is hiring: UX Designer in Santa Clara

Job Title

UX Designer

Location

Santa Clara, CA

Contract

3+ Months Contract (Possibility of Extension), W2 Only.

Work Schedule

Full Time (5 days a week, 8:00/8:30 – 5:00). Overtime not expected but may be possible based on business needs and will occur only when requested and approved by manager.

Job Description

A hands‑on UX designer with experience in SaaS and enterprise software environments, adept at quickly understanding complex business challenges and translating them into high‑velocity wireframes that drive ideation.

Specific Duties

• Research user needs and behaviors through methods such as user interviews, surveys, and product landscape analysis.
• Create light user personas and user flows to identify key journeys and pain points. Generate mind maps and user flows.
• Understand front‑end development process and limitations (basic knowledge of HTML/CSS/JS is a plus).
• Apply and promote design thinking and design system.
• Collaborate with stakeholders, such as Product Managers, to create quick design concepts and prototypes that align with business goals and technical constraints.
• Conduct usability testing and gather feedback from users to refine and iterate on designs.
• Continuously iterate on designs and test new features to improve the user experience through ideation and prototype phase.
• Create high‑fidelity and low‑fidelity designs type for multiple platforms such as mobile, web.
• Create prototypes for user testing and validation.

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Fine Arts, Graphic Design, or a related field.

Experience

• Preference 5+ years of experience in design with enterprise SaaS software products.
• Proficient in visual design and information architecture.
• Experience with Figma required.
• Experience with enterprise SaaS software products. Experience with analytics products or new AI software is a plus.
• Ability to ideate, iterate, learn, and improve designs based on verbal feedback/whiteboarding with senior leadership.
• Leverages Figma's AI-powered workflows for rapid prototyping and collaborates seamlessly with senior leadership through whiteboarding and iterative design refinement.
• Understand cloud-native app development (DevOps, Agile methodology, microservices, cloud platforms, containers like Kubernetes and Docker, CI/CD).
• Support written and verbal communication to plan further work, explain and document ideas.