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Remote Designer jobs

13 open positions in the United States, newest first.

Designer, used as a job title without a qualifier, usually means a generalist who shapes how a company's product or brand looks and works. Depending on the employer, the work leans toward product design of apps and websites, or toward visual and brand design for marketing. The posting's details decide which, so the portfolio requested is the best clue.

About the Designer role

What the work looks like

  • Turn briefs and user problems into wireframes, mockups and interactive prototypes, usually in Figma.
  • Design marketing assets such as landing pages, presentations, social graphics and campaign visuals.
  • Present work in design critiques and revise it based on feedback from peers and stakeholders.
  • Maintain and extend the design system or brand guidelines so that work stays consistent.
  • Hand off specifications and assets to engineers or producers and check the built result against the design.

What employers ask for

  • A portfolio showing process and finished work
  • Figma for interface design and prototyping
  • Adobe Creative Cloud for visual work
  • Typography, layout and color fundamentals
  • Interaction design and usability principles
  • Explaining design decisions to non-designers

Doing this job remotely

Design tools are now browser-based and collaborative, so designers can work remotely with files that the whole team sees live. Feedback is the difficult part, since critique loses nuance in comments, and teams compensate with recorded walkthroughs and scheduled reviews. Employers generally want a few hours of overlap for workshops with engineers and product managers.

Where it comes from and where it leads

Designers enter through design school, self-taught portfolios, bootcamps or adjacent work in graphic design and front-end development. Generalists typically specialize into product, brand or motion design, and advance to senior designer, design lead and design management.