User Experience Designer

Description

Please note that this posting is for a contract assignment and is not a full-time employment opportunity with fortune 500 company. Candidates selected for roles will be employed as contract workers through clients approved 3rd party Direct Source provider for the duration of the specified project and will not be an employee of fortune 500 client.

Companies Infrastructure is seeking a Senior UX Designer for a 3 month engagement to lead a UI overhaul of our data center control system. This system is used daily by technicians and engineers to monitor, manage, and operate critical data center infrastructure. The current interface works, but it wasn't designed with learnability or usability as a priority, and it shows.

We need someone who can come in, quickly understand a complex technical domain, and redesign the UI so that it's intuitive for both experienced operators and new technicians ramping up. You'll be working directly with the engineering team to ensure every design decision is technically feasible and shippable within the engagement window.

This isn't a visual polish project; it's a ground-up rethink of information architecture, interaction patterns, and visual hierarchy for a system that has real operational impact.

What You'll Do

• Assess the current control system UI and identify the highest-impact usability gaps, focusing on learnability, task efficiency, and error prevention.
• Develop a new design direction for the UI, including information architecture, navigation, layout, and interaction patterns.
• Create process flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups that communicate the redesigned experience clearly to engineering and leadership.
• Partner closely with engineers throughout the engagement to validate technical feasibility, understand system constraints, and iterate on designs that can actually be built.
• Conduct lightweight usability testing or design reviews with technicians and operators to validate that the new design is learnable and effective.
• Deliver a design system foundation (component patterns, spacing, typography, color usage) that the engineering team can maintain and extend after the engagement ends.
• Present design rationale and progress to engineering leadership for review and alignment.

Basic Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in UX/interaction design for web-based applications, with demonstrated work on complex, data-rich, or operational interfaces (dashboards, control panels, monitoring tools, or similar).
• Strong portfolio showing before/after redesign work, with clear articulation of design rationale and measurable outcomes.
• Proven ability to design for learnability: reducing onboarding time, minimizing cognitive load, and creating interfaces that new users can navigate without extensive training.
• Experience working embedded with engineering teams, understanding technical constraints, and designing within them.
• Proficiency in modern design tools (Figma preferred).
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing for industrial, infrastructure, or operational technology environments (data centers, manufacturing, network operations, or similar).
• Familiarity with design systems and the ability to establish scalable component patterns.
• Experience with usability testing in specialized/technical user populations (not just consumer products).
• Ability to prototype interactions (Figma prototyping, HTML/CSS, or similar) to communicate complex behaviors to engineers.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present design decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced environment with minimal ramp-up time.

This posting is for a contract assignment with Tundra Technical Solutions to provide services to client.

The pay range that Tundra in good faith reasonably expects to pay for this position is $89/hour - $93/hour.

Tundra’s benefits offering includes optional medical, dental, vision, retirement benefits, and a New Child Benefit.

Pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act, Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, and San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, qualified applicants will be considered for assignment with arrest and conviction records. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position.

These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness, meet client expectations, standards, and accompanying requirements, and safeguard business operations and company reputation.

Tundra Technical Solutions is among North America’s leading providers of Staffing and Consulting Services. Our success and our clients’ success are built on a foundation of service excellence.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with applicable law, including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Unincorporated LA County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: client provided property, including hardware (both of which may include data) entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all portable client computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon completion of the assignment, and; maintain the confidentiality of client proprietary, confidential, or non-public information.

In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected client information technology systems and related data security obligations.

Pay Rate Range

Min Pay Rate$89

Max Pay Rate$93