Kanopi Studios is seeking a Contract Senior Website Visual Designer (UX/UI) with strong experience in designing accessible, user-centered websites. This fully remote role involves leading end-to-end design projects, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and presenting design solutions to clients across the US and Canada.
What You'll Do
- Lead end-to-end visual and UX design for complex website projects, from discovery through launch, setting a clear design direction and guiding clients and internal teams toward confident decisions.
- Create accessible, user-centered solutions including wireframes, user flows, UI designs, high-fidelity prototypes, and scalable design systems that support long-term consistency.
- Presentation and defend your work clearly and confidently, explaining your thinking in simple terms and standing behind your recommendations.
- Plan and facilitate discovery workshops, translating research and insights into practical UX deliverables such as sitemaps, user journeys, and personas.
- Collaborate closely with Content Strategists, Developers, and Project Managers to ensure solutions are cohesive, technically sound, and delivered as intended, including reviewing work during development.
- Represent Creative Services in client pitches and throughout the sales process, helping win new work through strong design thinking and presentation.
- Contribute to Kanopi’s marketing and thought leadership efforts through webinars, presentations, and other public-facing opportunities.
What We're Looking For
- Senior-level experience designing websites
- Portfolio demonstrating real depth in visual and UX design
- Ability to create designs that are both aesthetically strong and functionally effective
- Design with accessibility in mind from the start
- Ability to make sites clear, usable, and inclusive for a wide range of people
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to walk clients through design work clearly and confidently
- Explain design thinking in plain language and connect it to user needs
- Stand behind design decisions with solid reasoning
- Answer questions, receive feedback, and guide conversations toward the right outcome
- Set a clear design direction and bring others along
- Listen and adjust when needed while protecting the integrity of the work
- Advocate for the user while keeping project goals in focus
- Lead through craft, clarity, and collaboration
Team & Environment
Reporting to the Director of Strategy and Creative, you’ll work within a mission-driven team that values collaboration, user focus, and the wellbeing of its people. Kanopi is committed to building a web that works better for everyone.
Benefits & Compensation
- Contract rate of $60/hour - $80/hour
- Support for team growth, wellbeing, and success
- Opportunities to contribute to marketing and thought leadership
- Inclusive culture that values people as much as the work they do
Work Mode
This is a 100% remote position open to candidates in the US and Canada.
Kanopi Studios is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all team members.
