UI/UX Designer Contractor

piplanning.io is a SaaS web application that supports enterprise planning and execution with visual, collaborative workflows. It is part of Scaled Agile, Inc., serving complex, high-stakes environments with a focus on clarity, reliability, and craftsmanship.

Location: Europe (preferably Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland)

Responsibilities

• Own design from discovery to delivery: frame problems, map flows, prototype, design high-fidelity UI, partner with engineers through implementation, and iterate after release.
• Design complex B2B workflows and make them feel intuitive, fast, and “obviously correct” for enterprise users.
• Push interaction design for our purpose-built whiteboards/canvases: object models, editing states, affordances, spatial navigation, consistency, edge cases, and scalability.
• Create strong prototypes in Figma (and beyond when needed) to validate ideas early and align stakeholders.
• Contribute to (and evolve) our design system: patterns, components, interaction standards, and documentation that help us ship faster without sacrificing quality.
• Collaborate cross-functionally: Product, Engineering, Customer Success, Sales, because in our team, design is part of the full loop (value discovery → delivery → adoption → customer success → value discovery).
• Use qualitative + quantitative signals to guide decisions (customer calls, support data, product usage, feedback loops) and make tradeoffs explicit.
• Use AI to create AI-driven capabilities for users, such as smart suggestions, insight generation, automation.

Requirements

• Proven product design experience for B2B SaaS web apps, with a portfolio that shows decision-making and outcomes.
• Advanced Figma skills and experience contributing to design systems and reusable patterns.
• Strong UX fundamentals: Information architecture, interaction design, visual hierarchy, accessibility, and systems thinking.
• Confidence in collaborating with engineers, comfortable discussing constraints, tradeoffs, and implementation details to protect design intent through launch.
• High ownership in small teams and the ability to drive from ambiguity to shipped outcomes.

Benefits

• Real ownership: you’ll shape core product experiences.
• High-leverage design problems: enterprise planning, visual collaboration, and complex workflows.
• Part of Scaled Agile, Inc. with global reach and a large professional ecosystem while still operating in a focused product team.

Additional Information

• Work location: European country, ideally in Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland.
• Open to part-time and full-time contracts.
• Strong B2B SaaS web-app design experience preferred.
• Excitement for owning problems end-to-end, especially in collaboration and canvas interactions.
• All information kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.