[Remote] UI/UX Designer

Location: Vietnam

About Orbital Kitchens:

Orbital Kitchens is a premier provider of high-quality, efficient food delivery services in New York City, revolutionizing the industry with our innovative approach. Backed by Travis Kalanick, the co-founder and former CEO of Uber, our company is known for its commitment to excellence and cutting-edge technology. We offer top-tier culinary experiences through state-of-the-art kitchen facilities, ensuring the highest standards of food quality and delivery efficiency. Join us as we continue to redefine the future of dining and food delivery.

Website: https://www.orbitalkitchens.com/

Headquarters: New York City, New York

Working Time: Flexible, with availability required for a daily team meeting at 10:00 AM EST (4 days/week)

Salary: 1500 USD, no SHUI, no Tax (no 2nd job)

About This Role:

Our engineering team builds a broad set of internal and customer-facing tools — from kitchen display systems and order management to mobile apps for field staff and customer-facing ordering experiences. We move fast, and our engineers (including backend engineers) often need to build UI quickly.

We're looking for a UX Designer to own our design system and component library. Your primary mission is to give every engineer on the team — regardless of their frontend depth — the building blocks to ship beautiful, consistent interfaces in React without needing to make design decisions from scratch. This is a high-impact, highly visible role where your work will touch every product we build.

Responsibilities:

• Create and own a design system in Figma (tokens, typography, color, spacing, iconography) that maps 1:1 to React components implemented by our engineers
• Design UI flows and screens for web and mobile products, then translate them into reusable patterns
• Conduct lightweight usability reviews of new features and flag UX inconsistencies across our product suite
• Partner async with our NYC-based engineering team, communicating design decisions clearly in writing and in handoff documentation
• Collaborate with engineers to ensure components are practical and developer-friendly, with clear usage documentation
• Iterate on the design system as new product needs emerge

Qualifications:

• 2–4 years of UX/product design experience, with a strong portfolio demonstrating both UI craft and systems thinking
• Deep proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto-layout, and design tokens
• Experience designing for web (required) and mobile — iOS/Android or React Native (preferred)
• Familiarity with how React component libraries work — you don't need to write code, but you understand what makes a component reusable and developer-friendly
• Strong visual design sensibility: typography, spacing, color, hierarchy
• Clear written communication in English; comfortable working asynchronously across time zones
• Bonus: Experience working directly with a frontend framework, contributing to a Storybook, or collaborating on a component library build