UI/UX Design Contractor

Job Summary (UI/UX Design Contractor - First Solar):

- Serve as the dedicated UI/UX designer for a product team lacking design/UAT ownership.
- Independently manage end-to-end product design for enterprise or internal business applications.
- Conduct user research and discovery activities (stakeholder interviews, workflow shadowing, journey mapping).
- Translate business requirements into wireframes, interactive prototypes, and production-ready designs using Figma.
- Build or extend a reusable component library and design system.
- Collaborate directly with engineering leads and business stakeholders to define acceptance criteria.
- Own the full user acceptance testing (UAT) process: write UAT scripts, facilitate sessions, capture/triage defects, and drive resolution.
- Design for operational/manufacturing environments (shop-floor, high-throughput data entry, dashboards, role-based workflows, non-desk/tablet users), with strong preference for related experience.
- Work within an agile delivery framework.
- Act as a hands-on individual contributor from discovery through delivered design.
- Familiarity with the Palantir platform is a plus.
- Local, hybrid position in Perrysburg, OH; 12+ month contract