UI Designer (Freelancer)

About us

VML is a global powerhouse born from the unification of Wunderman Thompson and VMLY&R two of the world's most powerful and accomplished creative agencies with complementary capabilities and geographic strengths. We have an industry-unique opportunity to provide our client partners with a fully integrated offering across brand experience, customer experience and commerce practices powered by deep data and technology experience.

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Job Title: UI Designer (Freelancer)

Location: Mumbai

Tenure: 6 months

Team: Customer Experience

Role Overview

Youll design delightful, usable interfaces for web and mobile, working across campaigns and product experiences. This is a hands-on UI role for someone with 23 years of agency or product experience who loves pixels, systems and working closely with UX, content and engineering to ship high-quality visual interfaces.

Key Responsibilities:

• Turn UX wires and research into polished, production-ready UI for web and mobile (responsive and native).
• Create and maintain UI components and contribute to design systems / component libraries.
• Produce high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes and handoff-ready assets for engineering.
• Work closely with UX designers, content, product managers and engineers to ensure design intent is implemented.
• Iterate on visual details typography, spacing, color, motion and micro-interactions to improve usability and delight.
• Participate in design critiques, sprint planning and client or stakeholder presentations as needed.
• Help maintain cross-project consistency (patterns, accessibility basics, performance-minded design).
• Stay curious follow design trends, propose small experimentations and improvements.

Skills & Competancies

• 23 years of professional experience in UI / visual design (agency or in-house/product team).
• Strong portfolio demonstrating UI work for web and/or mobile show real screens, design decisions and outcomes.
• Hands-on with Figma (preferred); familiarity with Adobe XD, Sketch or similar tools is a plus.
• Experienced building and using component-based design systems or pattern libraries (even if small scale).
• Solid understanding of responsive layout, grid systems, typography and visual hierarchy.
• Basic prototyping skills (Figma prototypes, InVision or similar) to communicate interaction flows.
• Comfortable preparing developer-ready handoffs: assets, specs, redlines and tokens.
• Good communication and collaboration skills able to explain design rationale clearly.
• Attention to detail and a pragmatic approach to delivering on time.
• Basic knowledge of accessibility (contrast, semantic structure) is a plus.
• Experience working on projects in BFSI, FMCG or Automotive (helpful but not required).
• Familiarity with motion/interaction tools (Principle, After Effects) or basic HTML/CSS awareness.
• Degree not required; demonstrable portfolio and experience are mandatory.
• Please include a link to your portfolio and 23 recent case studies that explain your role and decisions.