<p><strong><em>Robert Half is partnering with our client, a leading global technology organization focused on delivering innovative digital reading and content experiences, in this search for a UI Designer.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Seattle, WA (hybrid-onsite 3 days/week)</p><p><strong>Duration:</strong> 3-month contract</p><p><strong>Hours:</strong> 40 hours/week</p><p><strong>Pay Rate: </strong>$50-53/hour</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Position Overview:</strong></p><p>We are seeking a detail-oriented and execution-focused UI Designer to join a design systems team supporting a suite of digital products across web, mobile, and device-based platforms. This role will play a critical part in building and maintaining a centralized design system documentation site that enables designers and engineers to apply consistent design standards at scale. The ideal candidate brings strong visual design skills, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to write and structure clear, user-friendly documentation. This is a highly collaborative role working closely with senior designers, engineers, and program managers to ensure design system content is accurate, accessible, and easy to navigate.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Migrate, edit, and format written documentation for design system foundations, components, and patterns across multiple platforms (web, mobile, and device-based experiences)</li><li>Create visual assets, diagrams, and annotated examples to clearly communicate design system guidelines and usage</li><li>Maintain and continuously improve the design system documentation site, ensuring content accuracy, consistency, and usability</li><li>Audit existing documentation to identify gaps, inconsistencies, or outdated content and proactively resolve issues</li><li>Collaborate with designers, engineers, and program managers to align documentation with current design and development standards</li><li>Organize and structure content to improve discoverability and usability for cross-functional teams</li><li>Contribute to evolving documentation templates, standards, and workflows to enhance team efficiency</li><li>Support additional visual design and documentation-related tasks as needed</li></ul>
<p>Robert Half is partnering with our client in this search for a UX Designer to join a Fortune 500 technology organization supporting innovative internal products. This role requires strong expertise in information architecture, interaction design, and visual mockups, along with the ability to clearly communicate complex ideas.</p><p><br></p><p>The UX Designer will help shape the experience for a flagship internal desktop application that leverages data, AI, and proactive insights to improve employee productivity. This is an early-stage product, offering the opportunity to influence direction, collaborate cross-functionally, and deliver high-quality design solutions in a fast-paced, agile environment.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Location</strong>: Seattle, WA (5 days onsite)</p><p><strong>Duration</strong>: 8-month contract</p><p><strong>Pay Rate</strong>: $50–52/hour</p><p><strong>Hours</strong>: 40 hours/week</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Rapidly create process flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups to effectively communicate interaction and design concepts</li><li>Partner with product, engineering, and research teams to define business and feature requirements using user data, usability findings, and market insights</li><li>Design intuitive, scalable user experiences for a complex desktop application leveraging large datasets and AI functionality</li><li>Conduct and support user research, usability testing, and data analysis to inform design decisions and optimize user experience</li><li>Present design solutions to cross-functional stakeholders, including product teams and senior leadership, incorporating feedback into iterative improvements</li><li>Contribute to and help evolve UX best practices, design systems, and standards across the organization</li><li>Balance multiple projects in an agile environment while maintaining a high bar for quality and attention to detail</li></ul>
<p><strong><em>Robert Half is partnering with our client, a global, customer-focused technology organization known for delivering innovative digital products and experiences at scale, in search of a highly strategic and creative Design Research Strategist to drive innovation research initiatives for a remote 6-month contract.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Location:</strong> REMOTE</p><p><strong>Hours:</strong> 40 hours/week</p><p><strong>Duration:</strong> 6-month contract</p><p><strong>Pay Rate: </strong>$65–75/hour</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Position Overview:</strong></p><p>This role will focus on qualitative, generative research that explores emerging technologies, cultural trends, and evolving human needs to inform future product and service experiences. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in qualitative design research, excels in storytelling and visual communication, and is comfortable working in ambiguity to uncover insights that shape long-term innovation strategy. This individual will partner closely with design, product, and research teams to translate forward-looking insights into actionable opportunities.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Lead end-to-end qualitative, generative research initiatives, including in-person and in-context studies, to uncover deep human insights and emerging behavioral trends</li><li>Synthesize research findings into clear, actionable insights, strategic frameworks, and opportunity areas that inform long-term innovation</li><li>Develop compelling, visually driven storytelling artifacts and presentations that effectively communicate insights and inspire stakeholders</li><li>Translate research into strategic outputs such as design principles, future scenarios, and innovation concepts that guide product and experience development</li><li>Facilitate workshops, working sessions, and presentations to activate research and drive alignment across cross-functional teams</li><li>Partner closely with product, design, and business stakeholders to connect future-focused insights to near-term product opportunities</li><li>Collaborate with research teams to build on existing knowledge, identify gaps, and inform forward-looking research roadmaps</li><li>Deliver high-quality, polished work with strong attention to detail, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and consistency in all outputs</li><li>Communicate proactively and effectively across stakeholders, building trust through collaboration and insight-driven recommendations</li><li>Produce impactful deliverables that influence decision-making and shape strategic direction across the organization</li></ul>
<p>Robert Half is partnering with our client, a leading technology and entertainment organization, in search of an <strong>AI Character Designer</strong> to join their team in Seattle. This role supports a high-impact UX and emerging media initiative focused on scaling AI-generated video content. This is a unique opportunity to help define next-generation, AI-driven character experiences in a highly visible, customer-facing environment, with direct impact on how audiences discover and engage with content.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Duration:</strong> 6-month contract</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>Seattle, WA (1 day onsite, 4 days remote)</p><p><strong>Pay Rate: </strong>$87–93/hour</p><p><strong>Hours: </strong>40 hours/week</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Position Overview:</strong></p><p>The AI Character Designer will serve as a creative technologist responsible for designing and optimizing AI-generated characters within an end-to-end content generation pipeline. This role sits at the intersection of storytelling, generative AI, and video production, with a strong emphasis on building scalable character systems that power short-form, AI-generated video experiences. You will define and refine character frameworks, behaviors, and personas that enable AI systems to consistently generate compelling, cohesive dialogue and visual outputs. This is a highly iterative, systems-driven role requiring both creative storytelling instincts and technical fluency with AI tools.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Key Responsibilities:</strong></p><ul><li>Design and define AI-generated characters, including visual traits, voice, tone, personality, and interaction patterns, ensuring consistency across all generated content</li><li>Develop detailed character frameworks and creative briefs that guide AI systems in generating structured, high-quality scripts and video outputs</li><li>Build and refine AI personas (e.g., character voices, screenwriter personas, production personas) that drive script and video prompt generation</li><li>Evaluate AI-generated scripts and videos, identifying issues such as character drift, inconsistent tone, or unnatural dialogue, and trace root causes across the system</li><li>Continuously improve character consistency and performance by refining prompts, constraints, and system rules</li><li>Establish and manage quality control frameworks, including character continuity, dialogue pacing, and content validation checks prior to video generation</li><li>Define and evolve evaluation criteria and scoring rubrics focused on character performance, including consistency, believability, and engagement</li><li>Collaborate cross-functionally with UX, product, and engineering teams to align character-driven content with broader user experience goals</li><li>Operate in a fast-paced, experimental environment with rapid iteration cycles and direct impact on customer-facing experiences</li></ul>