Ux Designer- No Code - Freelance [Remote]

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• LOCATION: Remote - United States only (TimeZone: PST/CIST | Full day overlap)
• JOB TYPE: Freelance, Contract Position (no agencies/C2C - see notes below)
• ESTIMATED DURATION: 40h/week - Long term
• HOURLY RANGE: Our client is looking to pay $110 – $120/hr

THE OPPORTUNITY
Requirements
This is a 6-month role with the possibility of an extension
Start date is ASAP
What You Bring

• Be a strong collaborator who embraces change, designs with curiosity and empathy, and brings a positive, optimistic mindset to the team
• Experience pitching to executive audiences a plus
• Comfortable discussing and facilitating discussions with senior leadership
• Tolerance for ambiguity and superpower for translating it into organized and clear steps
• 8+ years of digital product or service design experience, preferably in wellness, commerce or healthcare or an analogous industry
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment with a small cross-functional team
• 5+ years of hands-on user interface or interaction design
• Comfortable as a design generalist with a diverse toolkit to understand, build and communicate an end-to-end- experience (eg. Low-fidelity sketching, user journey, mapping, wireframes, prototyping, service blueprinting, creating experience or design principles)
• On the cutting edge of digital services, technology and behaviors
• Expertise in Sketch or Figma, Adobe CS, and prototyping tools
• 2+ years of experience applying human-centered design approaches, methods and tools to solve complex problems

What you’ll be working on
Who They Are Looking For
This is a unique opportunity to join our client's team, the company’s digital innovation incubator. They are a fast-moving entrepreneurial team currently exploring the edges of possibility. They move with speed and purpose, taking calculated risks and failing fast –all with one goal in mind: serving consumers in new and unimagined ways. In support of that mission, they are seeking a UX Designer to join their Design Studio team. The UX Designer will support the exploration of consumer hypotheses with a human centered lens with the goal of driving insights and bringing innovative digital services, features, and products to life.
Who You Will Work With
As a key member of the Design Studio team, you will bring expertise in best practices in what’s new and next in the UX design space. The Design Studio is a team focused on customer research and UX design that uses the iterative human-centered design process to ideate, research, test and ultimately validate digital products with consumers. You’ll also collaborate with Valiant Labs Portfolio Team members, including the Product and Tech team to tackle cross-disciplinary needs, and serve as a partner to their entrepreneurs-in-residence.
What You Will Work On
The Design Studio is a multidisciplinary team that uses the iterative human-centered design process to research, ideate, test and ultimately, validate new digital products with consumers. As part of the process, you will support the research and validation of consumer hypotheses and value propositions across multiple projects through experimentation design, creation of low fidelity proof of concepts, and iterative prototype development. You will bring a mix of deep interaction design experience and visual UX design to establish business goals. You will be comfortable driving the initial design exploration and testing, detailed product design, as well as prototyping and documentation. Being highly collaborative in nature, working with new ventures to build impactful designs, you will help discover powerful stories and new digital services that help to shape the future of Nike’s business.
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Braintrust Job ID: 6632
C2C Candidates: This role is not available to C2C candidates working with an agency. If you are a professional contractor who has created an LLC/corp around their consulting practice, this is well aligned with Braintrust and we’d welcome your application.
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