UX/UI Staff Augmentation.
Senior Designer embedded in 72 hours

Whatever you have allocated for the role internally is what you pay. No markups, no hidden costs, one monthly payment. That is the whole model. If you budgeted for a senior product designer, that budget covers a senior product designer from us, and we handle everything else on our side: sourcing, vetting, contracts, equipment, payroll, benefits, replacement if the match is wrong, and the senior oversight behind the placement. Cost scales with seniority and the number of people embedded, not with hours logged or scope disputes. We give you the monthly number before anyone starts.

UX/UI staff augmentation is an engagement model where experienced UX, UI, and product professionals join your existing team as embedded contributors, working inside your tools, processes, and delivery cadence. Unlike outsourcing, augmented team members are part of your team rather than a vendor you send work to. Unlike full-time hiring, staff augmentation does not require a long-term commitment, internal overhead, or an extended ramp-up period. The practical difference: an outsourced team sends you finished work. An augmented designer sits in your stand-up.

Staff augmentation places individual professionals inside your team under your direction. Outsourcing hands an entire project or function to an external team that manages it independently and delivers a result. With augmentation, you set priorities, run the ceremonies, and own the roadmap. The designer uses your Figma, your Jira, your Slack. With outsourcing, the vendor owns the process and you review output at defined checkpoints. Augmentation suits teams that know what they need built and lack the capacity to build it. Outsourcing suits work you want handled end to end without your involvement.

Most teams are matched with a senior UX/UI professional within 72 hours of defining the role requirements, and in most cases that person is embedded and contributing within the same week. That speed is possible because the vetting happens before you contact us. We are not starting a search when you call.

There are no hard contracts and no minimum term. You can scale the number of people up or down, or end the engagement entirely, with 15 days notice. That flexibility is the point of the model. Roadmaps change, funding changes, priorities change, and you should be able to respond without renegotiating an agreement or carrying the cost of letting someone go.

UX/UI designers, UX researchers, service designers, product design leads, and UX/UI developers. Each person is selected based on your product maturity, domain, team structure, and technical requirements. Not who happens to be available that week.

We replace them free of charge within 24 hours, and give you one month free with the replacement. Fit is not only about skill, and the first two weeks are where a mismatch becomes obvious. When we get it wrong, the cost of fixing it is ours rather than yours.

They work inside your existing tools, workflows, and ceremonies from day one. Daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, Figma, Slack, Jira. An augmented team member operates the way an in-house hire would.

Engagements range from a single sprint to several years, depending on what the roadmap needs. Short engagements usually cover a defined push: a launch, a redesign, a research phase. Longer ones function as an extension of the team, with an embedded designer staying through multiple product cycles. Our Synchrony engagement ran nearly four years, and our Cinépolis partnership is ongoing. There is no minimum term, so length is a result of the work rather than something you commit to upfront.

Staff augmentation gives you the speed of a contractor, the integration of a full-time hire, and the oversight of a senior design practice, without the long-term commitment or the handoff problem. Hiring a senior designer takes four to six months, plus six to twelve months of ramp-up before they are at full productivity. That is close to a year of runway before the role pays for itself. A traditional design agency works alongside your team rather than inside it, which creates the handoff problem: work arrives finished, your engineers find it does not fit your stack, and you spend weeks translating. Staff augmentation sits between them. The designer is inside your team and under your direction, but sourced, vetted, and supported by an agency, and the arrangement can end when the need does.