The Planet Group
Job Description
Location:
Can be based in Boston, MA, Portsmouth, NH, Plano, TX, Seattle, WA or REMOTE Duration:
5 Months Pay Rate:
Up to $75/hour (DOE)
The Planet Groups Fortune500 Insurance company is looking for a Lead UX Developer
to join our Enterprise UX team for a 5-month contract starting in August 2025
In this role, you'll play a pivotal role in bridging design and development. You'll not only build and optimize the tools that drive efficiency across our digital products but also help shape and elevate engineering knowledge within the UX team. This position offers exceptional autonomy and is ideal for someone who thrives on taking initiative, sharing knowledge, and championing innovation in both technology and process.
Lead UX Developer Responsibilities: Proactively guide, mentor, and empower other UX team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and shared best practices. Champion the UX vision and bring industry best practices and novel technical solutions into the applications we support. You're excited by the opportunity to explore and implement AI-driven and automated approaches to front-end development. Identify user research needs and participate in immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing. You continuously seek and integrate user feedback and test results to optimize solutions. Collaborate with multiple functions-including product owners, product designers, researchers, and developers-throughout the product lifecycle, seeking feedback, integrating diverse perspectives, and facilitating knowledge sharing. Transform visual designs and wireframes into clean, accessible, production-ready code that faithfully executes the UX vision. Lead UX Developer Qualifications:
Minimum 8+ years of related experience. Advanced front-end development skills (CSS/SCSS, HTML5, Git, JavaScript, Nodejs, React). Familiarity with enterprise build and release cycles. Deep understanding of design principles and visual design (white space, font treatments, information architecture, grid systems) Experience contributing to design systems (principles, components, patterns) Proven ability to investigate, evaluate, and implement new tools and processes (including those using AI) to advance team practices, especially in the design-to-development handoff. Experience leading or mentoring teams and fostering the growth of colleagues' technical expertise. Hands-on experience using methodologies such as Agile, Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Lean Startup. Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Strong analytical thinking and the ability to synthesize and reconcile complex, interdependent, and sometimes competing requirements. A track record of effectively presenting projects and progress to senior management. Education:
Bachelor's degree Computer Science / Human Computer Interaction / UX or a related field preferred.
The staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly, never provide banking information during the application process and always double check the email address of the Recruiter to ensure it's from an official Planet domain (@theplanetgroup.com or @launchcg.com) - and not a domain with an alternative extension like .net, .org or .jobs.
The Planet Group and our companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.
Location:
Can be based in Boston, MA, Portsmouth, NH, Plano, TX, Seattle, WA or REMOTE Duration:
5 Months Pay Rate:
Up to $75/hour (DOE)
The Planet Groups Fortune500 Insurance company is looking for a Lead UX Developer
to join our Enterprise UX team for a 5-month contract starting in August 2025
In this role, you'll play a pivotal role in bridging design and development. You'll not only build and optimize the tools that drive efficiency across our digital products but also help shape and elevate engineering knowledge within the UX team. This position offers exceptional autonomy and is ideal for someone who thrives on taking initiative, sharing knowledge, and championing innovation in both technology and process.
Lead UX Developer Responsibilities: Proactively guide, mentor, and empower other UX team members, fostering a culture of technical excellence, continuous learning, and shared best practices. Champion the UX vision and bring industry best practices and novel technical solutions into the applications we support. You're excited by the opportunity to explore and implement AI-driven and automated approaches to front-end development. Identify user research needs and participate in immersive user research, concept testing, and usability testing. You continuously seek and integrate user feedback and test results to optimize solutions. Collaborate with multiple functions-including product owners, product designers, researchers, and developers-throughout the product lifecycle, seeking feedback, integrating diverse perspectives, and facilitating knowledge sharing. Transform visual designs and wireframes into clean, accessible, production-ready code that faithfully executes the UX vision. Lead UX Developer Qualifications:
Minimum 8+ years of related experience. Advanced front-end development skills (CSS/SCSS, HTML5, Git, JavaScript, Nodejs, React). Familiarity with enterprise build and release cycles. Deep understanding of design principles and visual design (white space, font treatments, information architecture, grid systems) Experience contributing to design systems (principles, components, patterns) Proven ability to investigate, evaluate, and implement new tools and processes (including those using AI) to advance team practices, especially in the design-to-development handoff. Experience leading or mentoring teams and fostering the growth of colleagues' technical expertise. Hands-on experience using methodologies such as Agile, Design Thinking, Lean UX, and Lean Startup. Exceptional written and oral communication skills. Strong analytical thinking and the ability to synthesize and reconcile complex, interdependent, and sometimes competing requirements. A track record of effectively presenting projects and progress to senior management. Education:
Bachelor's degree Computer Science / Human Computer Interaction / UX or a related field preferred.
The staffing industry has seen an increase in people falsely representing themselves as recruiters to gather personal information from job seekers. For your safety, do not provide sensitive data to anyone you have not spoken with thoroughly, never provide banking information during the application process and always double check the email address of the Recruiter to ensure it's from an official Planet domain (@theplanetgroup.com or @launchcg.com) - and not a domain with an alternative extension like .net, .org or .jobs.
The Planet Group and our companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.