Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SANS Consulting Services, Inc. is seeking a UI/UX Designer with a focus on Developer Experience. The role involves designing intuitive experiences for managing software release and deployment processes, working closely with engineering and stakeholders to create a cohesive internal platform.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineering, Technical Program Manager and stakeholders to understand current release and deployment workflows
- Turn ambiguous operational problems into clear UX flows and design proposals
- Map user journeys, roles, states, edge cases, and decision points across the release lifecycle
- Design for dense information environments, technical users, and high-consequence workflows
- Create reusable UI patterns for internal platform experiences
- Present work clearly, gather feedback, and iterate quickly
- Balance short-term improvements with longer-term platform vision
- Help define where product thinking, information architecture, and UX consistency are most needed
Skills
- Candidates MUST BE US citizen or Green Card holder as this position cannot sponsor any OPT, CPT, F1s, H1-B or H4-EAD
- 7+ to 20 years of working experience as a UI/UX Designer (no programming experience needed as this is a designer job)
- Candidates for this position must have DEVELOPER EXPERIENCE (DevEx); In the context of user experience (UX), DevEx refers to the experience of developers who build, maintain, or integrate software products
- Candidate chosen has had experience with SOFTWARE TOOLING. Software tooling refers to the collection of software tools that developers use to create, test, deploy, maintain, and manage software applications
- EXPERT Level with FIGMA an absolute must
- 100% CONTRACTING for 1-2 years and possibility of conversion to full-time
- Define the end-to-end user experience for how Software Technology firm teams manage releases and deployments
- Simplify complex operational and technical workflows into intuitive product flows
- Design experiences for visibility, control, confidence, and accountability across the release lifecycle
- Create workflows and patterns for tasks such as release readiness, change review, deployment tracking, rollout status, incident awareness, and rollback support
- Partner with engineering to translate existing platform capabilities into usable product experiences
- Identify where the current experience is confusing, fragmented, manual, or hard to scale
- Build a coherent interaction model and visual language for a high-signal internal platform
- Produce wireframes, polished mocks, prototypes, and UX recommendations that can be implemented iteratively
- Partner with engineering, Technical Program Manager and stakeholders to understand current release and deployment workflows
- Turn ambiguous operational problems into clear UX flows and design proposals
- Map user journeys, roles, states, edge cases, and decision points across the release lifecycle
- Design for dense information environments, technical users, and high-consequence workflows
- Create reusable UI patterns for internal platform experiences
- Present work clearly, gather feedback, and iterate quickly
- Balance short-term improvements with longer-term platform vision
- Help define where product thinking, information architecture, and UX consistency are most needed
- Strong experience designing internal tools, enterprise products, or operational workflows
- Ability to make complex systems feel simple without losing critical detail
- Strong systems thinking and information architecture skills
- Experience designing dashboards, workflow-heavy tools, or configuration-heavy products
- Comfort working with engineers on ambiguous early-stage product and platform problems
- Strong proficiency in wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity UI design
- Experience designing for states, edge cases, permissions, and operational risk
- Clear communication and the ability to work asynchronously with technical stakeholders
- Experience with release management, developer platforms, deployment tooling, or observability-adjacent workflows
- Experience designing for platform, DevEx, infrastructure, or reliability-oriented teams
- Familiarity with highly technical users and operational decision-making environments
- Experience helping define product direction when the initial design vision is not yet fully formed
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