Senior UX/UI Designer
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Work setup
- Not specified
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Contract
- Experience
- Not specified
- Category
- Design
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Design intuitive user experiences for business applications, customer portals and internal platforms.
- Build and improve a shared UX/UI design system across multiple React applications.
- Create reusable component specifications, variants, states and interaction patterns.
- Define design tokens for typography, colours, spacing and layout.
- Work closely with React developers to ensure designs are practical, consistent and reusable.
- Design complex forms, tables, dashboards, navigation and data-heavy workflows.
- Turn business requirements into clear, user-friendly experiences.
- Apply accessibility, responsive design and consistent interaction standards.
- Review developed interfaces to ensure they match the intended design.
- Improve existing applications without redesigning everything from scratch.
- Document design principles and component usage for long-term consistency.
Full description
Great design shouldn't stop at a mockup.
We've all seen it happen. A beautiful design gets approved. The spacing is perfect, the typography is spot on, and every interaction has been carefully considered.
Then development starts.
Suddenly, there are six different button styles, four versions of the same dropdown, and a component library that looks like it was designed by people who have never met.
Sound familiar? We thought so.
At First Focus, we're looking for an experienced Senior UX/UI Designer who understands that great user experiences aren't just about beautiful screens. They're about thoughtful systems, reusable components, consistent interactions and working closely with the people who actually build them.
Someone who can think strategically about user experience, get into the detail of complex interfaces and understand how their designs translate into real React components.
You don't need to be a full-time React developer, but you do need to understand how modern component-based applications work.
And if you've ever had a passionate discussion about whether something should be a component variant or an entirely new component, you'll probably fit right in.
Who is First Focus?
We're one of Australia's leading managed service providers, helping more than 1,000 organisations get more from their technology.
Technology is what we do, but relationships are what we're known for.
Alongside our managed IT services, our growing software engineering capability builds business applications, customer portals, internal platforms, integrations and innovative solutions using modern technologies and AI.
We value curiosity, practical thinking and people who genuinely care about the quality of their work. We're not particularly interested in unnecessary bureaucracy, and we believe good ideas matter more than job titles.
Our values include Keep it Simple, Live Curiously and Win Together, which fit nicely with how we approach design and engineering.
Learn more about First Focus and our values at
About the contract
This is a 12-month independent contractor engagement, focused on establishing consistent, scalable UX/UI design across our growing portfolio of React-based applications.
You'll work closely with software engineers and stakeholders to design intuitive experiences, improve existing applications and create a shared design system that developers can confidently use and extend.