Your niche is our forté. Say goodbye to resume dumps and one-size-fits-all recruitment, with dedicated design support.
Whether you need someone tomorrow or for the long-term, we connect you with exceptional, vetted UX and service design talent faster — and easily overcome procurement hurdles.
Vetted UX talent to add firepower to your existing team. Ideal for big projects, coverage or times of change.
Flexibility to try before you commit. Start with a contractor and convert to full-time when you’re ready.
Hire high-performing, full-time UX professionals with confidence and minimal friction.
Whether you’re looking for niche skills, generalists or strategists, we’ve got you covered. Outwitly specializes in staffing UX designers, UX researchers, and service designers, but the list doesn’t end there.
Our talent network is full of:
Looking to enhance your strategic oversight? We also provide design leadership staffing, including fractional UX directors.
When you need to move fast, prevent burnout, or bring in specialized skills, staff augmentation lets you add the right team member for mid- or long-term projects.
When you’re not quite ready to add permanent headcount to your team, or you’d like to test the waters. Contract to hire gives you the flexibility.
When you’re ready to grow your internal team of UX designers, writers, researchers and/or service designers, but don’t have time to filter through resumes and interviews. We help you find the perfect match for your team.
Lean on UX, design and UX research SMEs, with tried and tested experience in talent sourcing.
First, we learn your organizational and project needs to pinpoint the right designer skill set and seniority.
Next, our network is tapped to identify candidates whose skills align seamlessly with your needs.
Resumes and portfolios are reviewed, and candidates are interviewed by senior UX professionals.
You receive a curated shortlist of 1–3 vetted candidates, and we facilitate interviews to confirm the best fit.
Contracts, Statements of Work (SOWs) and Purchase Orders (POs) are finalized quickly once your candidate is selected.
Smooth onboarding and integration ensure talent ramps up effectively within your team, supported by Outwitly’s processes.
Ongoing mentorship, coaching, and advisory support set up talent (and you) for success and long-term retention.
Our Outwitlian unicorns make meaningful impact in every project they touch— and we’re dedicated to nurturing every practitioner with this standard in mind.
From enterprise to public sector, we help scale high-performing design teams that deliver measurable impact, within your unique restrictions and timeframe.
With AI-created resumes and portfolios repeatedly showing the same hard skills, every application can seem identical. Our senior UX and talent experts (with 10+ years of experience) personally vet candidates for craft, culture, “stakeholder savvy” and communication skills that we know deliver impact.
Headcount freeze? Need to ramp up fast?
Outwitly’s UX/UI staff augmentation, contract-to-hire, and full-time models help you navigate internal barriers and plan for uncertainty.
Wondering about pricing?
Our cost structuring varies based on which model you choose, from hourly to flat, and part time to full. See more details on our pricing page.
| Engagement Model | Best For | Time to Start | Hiring Commitment |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff Augmentation |
Immediate project gaps for expert input | 48 hours to 2 weeks | 6 to 18 months (Option to extend) |
| Contract to Hire |
Testing long-term fit | 2 weeks | 3 to 12 months (Option to extend) |
| Permanent UX Hire |
Full-time team growth | 3–4 weeks | Long-term |
We keep hiring simple — and tailored. With $30M+ revenue and 300k+ contracted hours under our belt, we're a proven and trusted UX partner that staffs high-performing teams fast, often with one single shortlist of optimal matches and less than 2 weeks to place.
As UX experts ourselves, we quickly read between the lines of role descriptions and organizational context to learn what your team truly needs. Then, we source from our deep UX network and pre-vetted pool, screened by our senior practitioners.
You get a curated shortlist of 1–3 great matches fast, and we support onboarding and integration to make sure things go smoothly.
It’s data-backed hiring guided by people who know UX craft inside out. That’s why we’re Designers Finding Designers.®
If you’re looking to immediately embed someone into your team, we could place your UX hire in less than 2 weeks — sometimes, even 48 hours.
Our staffing turnaround for contracts-to-hire averages 2 weeks, and 3–4 weeks for permanent UX hires.
Why so quick? Because we have a large pre-vetted pool of specialized practitioners, and in-house SMEs who can quickly zero in on matches for your exact needs.
Yes! Outwitly supports in-person placements across Canada and the U.S. Our wide-reaching network includes UX professionals open to on-site, hybrid, or fully remote work.
We tailor every shortlist to your organization’s specific setup and compliance needs.
Yes — our staff augmentation and fractional leadership contracts are designed to add velocity to your UX initiatives without a long-term commitment.
These contracts can be as short as 3 months, though many of our clients decide to extend after seeing placements perform. (Outwitly's 91.3% contract retention rate is proof.)
With the contract-to-hire model, you have the option to fill a role with low commitment upfront, and opt for permanent placement down the road.
This is no problem — Outwitly regularly partners with government bodies and enterprise clients, so meeting procurement regulations is second nature.
We’re primed to meet legal, cybersecurity, compliance and regional requirements. Getting us added is quick and simple.
Staff augmentation is a flexible way to scale your team quickly without long-term commitments or the silos that come with outsourcing. It’s actually one of three staffing models we offer, alongside contract-to-hire and permanent/direct hires.
Contract-to-hire allows you to test fit before committing to an internal hire. With permanent hiring, you still get the benefit of our design-led talent sourcing and vetting, as well as compliance/procurement handling from our experienced team.
Staff augmentation places a practitioner inside your team who you direct; outsourcing hands the whole project to an external agency. Outwitly scales design impact in both worlds — we’re a strategic partner that offers UX staffing AND pre-scoped UX delivery options.
This is one of the many perks of our motto, Designers Finding Designers®. You can choose which projects to bolster with an embedded practitioner that you manage directly, and which projects would ease the load with a clean handoff to our internal experts.
We also offer design practice advisory for our clients, and training programs for in-house teams to enhance collaboration, UX maturity, and skills in specialized areas like design for AI.
UX staff augmentation cost depends on seniority, role, engagement type, and length. If your needs are more project-based, or you’re not looking to take on the long-term cost commitment of a permanent hire, staff augmentation is a flexible option that can have a high cost-benefit.
This is especially true working with Outwitly — we leverage our deep UX expertise to find the right matches quickly, and connect you with practitioners who can hit the ground running.
Short hiring cycles + our high contract retention rates = more budget left to innovate.
Contractors cover their own taxes, benefits, and downtime — but that’s only part of it. Most are senior practitioners with a consultant’s mindset: they ramp up fast, solve problems independently, and bring outside perspective that lifts the whole team. You’re paying for experience, agility, and impact from day one.
Reach out to us about your talent needs — we pride ourselves on quick responses and strategic advice.