About the Opportunity
This successful, established SaaS product company based in the CBD is looking for an Intermediate UX Designer to join the team on a 6-month contract, with the potential to extend. The role has been created to help accelerate product development and manage a significant UX workload, ensuring engineers have a strong pipeline of validated designs to work from.
Reporting to the, you’ll be part of a collaborative team of 14 UX designers and researchers based across New Zealand and the US. This is a hands-on role where you’ll be producing and refining designs, developing components, and contributing to an innovative, AI-driven design and development workflow. The team is currently scaling new agentic development practices across a large engineering group, so this is a great opportunity to be involved in modern product and UX approaches at scale.
The environment is open, collaborative, and fast-moving, and they are looking for someone who enjoys working closely with others, contributing ideas, and taking feedback constructively. The team works in a hybrid model, with three days in the office and two from home, and some flexibility around hours to support collaboration across time zones.
What You’ll Bring
You’ll bring solid intermediate-level UX experience, ideally gained in a product, SaaS, or digital environment, along with strong Figma capability and the ability to deliver practical, developer-ready designs. Experience working closely with engineers and product teams will be important, as will the ability to balance quality with delivery speed in a fast-paced environment.
Exposure to AI tools such as Claude, Gemini, or similar will be highly valued, along with an interest in prompt engineering or AI-assisted workflows. Just as important is your approach to teamwork — this role will suit someone who communicates openly, shares ideas, and is comfortable giving and receiving feedback while managing multiple priorities.
What’s on Offer
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing SaaS organisation working at the forefront of AI adoption in product development. You’ll be part of a supportive and collaborative UX team where your work will have visible impact, and where you’ll gain exposure to modern UX practices and emerging AI-driven development workflows.
The role offers a 6-month contract with potential to extend, a CBD location with hybrid working (three days in the office and two from home), and flexible working hours to support international collaboration.
Next Steps?
To keep things simple, we ask that all applications are submitted through this advert. We’ll review applications as they come in and be in touch.
For any questions give Paulina a call on 02725063431 and quote Job ID: 17285 for a confidential chat.
To apply for this vacancy, you MUST be a New Zealand citizen, resident, or have already secured the right to work in New Zealand and therefore hold a valid visa.
At the appropriate stage we will request your references, we ask that you do not include them on your CV when applying.
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