[Hiring] UI/UX Product Designer @FaithOnline

Role Description

We're looking for a talented, mission-aligned UI/UX Product Designer to help shape the look, feel, and experience of FaithOnline. You'll own design across our iOS and Android mobile app as well as our web-based platforms, including the internal CMS and admin tools our team uses to run FaithOnline day to day. You'll work closely with engineering to bring screens to life with pixel precision, and with product and leadership to make sure every flow serves formation, connection, and growth rather than distraction. This role starts as a contractor position at 15-25 hours. Hours and scope could grow with the platform.

What You'll Do

• Own product design across the core FaithOnline experience: exploration, interaction design, visual execution, prototyping, and implementation.
• Design across both our consumer-facing mobile app and our web-based platforms, including the CMS and admin tools our internal team uses to manage content and run the platform.
• Turn product objectives into real solutions. Dig into the problem with Product, try several approaches, weigh the tradeoffs, and land on a direction.
• Design 0-to-1 features and workflows as we build the platform out past our beta.
• Design past the happy path: states, transitions, errors, edge cases, and system feedback. A feature isn't done until it works as a whole.
• Hold a high bar on interaction and visual craft, and help FaithOnline's aesthetic (warm, grounded, premium, human, hopeful) evolve as you go.
• Prototype fast with whatever fits: Figma, AI-assisted prototyping, functional prototypes. The point is to make ideas tangible and decisions faster.
• Grow our design system as the product grows. Build on our Material Design foundation and add patterns that let us move quickly without dropping quality.
• Work closely with engineering through implementation. Give them the interaction detail, logic, and context for a clean handoff.
• Pitch in on FaithOnline's broader visual direction when it makes sense, including product-adjacent surfaces like the website and app store presence.
• Communicate early. Raise questions, risks, and ideas before they turn into problems, and keep Product and Engineering in sync via Slack and Jira.

Qualifications

• Serious visual and UI craft, with a portfolio that shows it, ideally including both consumer mobile apps and web-based platforms.
• A track record of building experiences that drive real retention and app growth, not just experiences that look good in a portfolio.
• Knowledge of UX and interaction fundamentals: hierarchy, flows, states, feedback, and messy product behavior.
• Ability to think in systems, not screens, and track how one decision ripples through the product.
• Experience taking vague, early-stage problems and making them coherent.
• Ability to explore before converging, building out real alternatives, naming tradeoffs, and explaining choices.
• Capability to move fast without going shallow, knowing when to explore, raise fidelity, and ship decisions.
• Ownership of the entire experience, not just the first screen.
• Ability to explain design decisions, grounded in user needs, product logic, UX principles, and real constraints.
• Experience working well alongside product and engineering while running your own work independently.
• Experience building and maintaining design systems and reusable component libraries; experience with Material Design specifically is a strong plus.
• Use of AI in the design process (exploration, prototyping, iteration, production) and understanding what can be sped up versus what needs personal judgment and craft.
• Genuine alignment with FaithOnline's mission and the call of the Great Commission.

Requirements

• Comfortable working across various design tools: Figma, Material Design components.
• Experience designing for cross-platform (iOS + Android).
• Familiarity with in-house, web-based CMS and admin platforms.
• Experience with analytics tools like Mixpanel.
• Proficiency in project management tools: Jira, Slack, Confluence/Notion.

Benefits

• Flexible hours and potential for growth in hours and scope.

Helpful, Not Required

• Experience building content, community, engagement, or social platforms.
• Experience designing for faith-based platforms that resonate with Scripture and spiritual formation.
• Experience designing B2B, internal tools, or CMS/admin platforms.
• Experience in early- or growth-stage startups.
• Experience with 0-to-1 products or major features.
• Experience with AI-powered products or workflows.