Senior UI/UX Designer — Build Our Design System & Make Our SaaS Stunning (Contract → Ongoing)

We're a fast-moving studio building several SaaS products. The first — closest to launch — is a tool for churches and pastors. A lot of our app is built fast with AI-assisted workflows, which makes it functional but generic-looking. Your job is to give it taste: establish a clean, reusable design system and redesign our core screens so the product feels premium, trustworthy, and genuinely beautiful — then hand polished, dev-ready designs to our developers to build. This starts as a focused contract project — a design system + a redesign of our launch product's key screens — with strong potential to continue ongoing as we add more products. What you'll do Audit our current screens and redesign them into something clean, modern, and premium Build a reusable design system (components, color, typography, spacing, patterns) that our developers build within — so quality stays high without you touching every screen Design user flows and mockups for new features — improve usability, not just looks Hand off dev-ready designs in Figma (organized, spec'd, with all states) that our developers + AI build from accurately Review the built screens against your designs and polish the flows that matter most Bring brand sensibility — for our faith product that means calm, warm, reverent, and trustworthy, not flashy Our setup Our developers build in Next.js + React + Tailwind CSS (often with shadcn/ui). Designs that map cleanly to that world — and a smooth Figma → code handoff — make everyone faster. You don't need to write code, but understanding how design becomes front-end is a real plus. You're a great fit if you Have a portfolio of real SaaS / web-app product design (not just landing pages or logos) Have built or worked within a design system Have strong taste and restraint — you make things beautiful without over-designing Think about user flows and usability, not only visuals Communicate clearly and work independently Can overlap a few hours with US time zones Nice to have Can do light front-end yourself (a "design engineer" who designs and builds in React/Tailwind) Experience designing for faith, community, or trust-sensitive products Comfortable designing within / extending shadcn/ui + Tailwind To apply — answer these (applications without answers are skipped) Share 1–2 SaaS or web-app products you designed. What was the before/after, and what problem were you solving (not just "made it prettier")? Have you built or worked within a design system? Briefly, how? How do you hand designs to developers so they build them accurately? Your part-time weekly availability and US time-zone overlap. Shortlist step (paid) A short paid trial: we'll give you one real screen from our app and ask you to redesign it plus a few sentences on your reasoning. We hire from the trial, not the résumé.