Lead UX Designer

Employment Type: Contract Location: Remote — Americas Team (Open to applicants located in North America, with the ability to primarily work within US business hours/time zones)

Company Overview

Fueled is a leading digital strategy, design, and engineering agency with a 300+ person team. They have designed and built digital products for brands like Google, Apple, The New York Times, ESPN, Victoria’s Secret, MGM Resorts, Albertsons, and CLEAR.

Role Summary

As a Lead UX Designer at Fueled, you will embrace ambiguity and turn it into opportunity by building meaningful solutions, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and prioritizing actions that move projects forward. The role involves creating thoughtful solutions that impact users, clients, and peers. The team is intentionally remote and globally distributed across six continents.

What you will do:

Lead end-to-end UX direction across client engagements to shape intuitive, scalable experiences ready to ship.
Collaborate closely with UX, design, and engineering teams to define scope, clarify priorities, and make tradeoffs protecting the user experience.
Translate ambiguous business goals into clear user journeys, information architecture, and interaction models for confident team building.
Facilitate alignment across client stakeholders and internal teams by guiding workshops and turning competing inputs into actionable decisions with easy-to-understand deliverables.
Develop UX patterns and design foundations to improve consistency, reduce rework, and accelerate delivery across teams.

What you will achieve:

Deliver UX work that improves product outcomes such as higher conversion rates, stronger engagement, clearer navigation, or smoother onboarding.
Create clarity early by turning open questions into structured flows, priorities, and decisions for confident team execution.
Ship work that raises the bar for usability, polish, and thoughtful interaction design across client projects.
Strengthen collaboration by improving alignment among clients, product teams, design, and engineering.
Grow as a Lead UX Designer through feedback, iteration, and close teamwork focused on craft.

About you:

6+ years of experience designing digital products and leading UX work across complex web and/or mobile experiences.
Ability to thrive in busy environments by bringing structure, clarity, and momentum without overcomplicating processes.
Proactive in asking great questions early; comfortable seeking input, challenging assumptions, or involving the right people for best outcomes.
Natural collaborator who builds strong relationships with clients, product teams, and engineers to keep work moving forward.
Proven track record of shipping thoughtful and polished UX that improves usability, engagement or conversion.

Contractor Fee

Compensation is based on relevant experience, projects handled, geographic location, and business needs.

Additional Information

This is a contract position offering an opportunity to experience Fueled’s team culture while showcasing your contributions.
Some contractors may transition into full-time roles when fit and business needs align.
Upon meeting criteria you join the Fueled contractor network with access to project invitations tailored to your expertise.

Remote Work Mention

The position is remote but specifically open to applicants located in North America who can primarily work within US business hours/time zones.