But behind the bright lights and big funding rounds lies a familiar challenge: design talent is hard to find and expensive to keep. A 2023 report from Glassdoor found that UX/UI designer salaries in LA average $115,000–$145,000, often pricing out early-stage startups.
Startups and scale-ups in LA are expected to deliver pixel-perfect experiences, evolve fast, and do it all within tight budgets. In this environment, more product leaders are finding that hiring remote UX/UI designers gives them the flexibility, speed, and creative horsepower needed to stay competitive, without compromising on quality or culture.
In LA’s product-obsessed market, design is more than just aesthetics, it’s strategy. Whether you're building a music discovery app, a virtual wellness platform, or a direct-to-consumer brand, user experience defines retention, conversion, and revenue.
That’s why the most successful LA startups treat design as a core part of the product team, not an outsourced add-on. According to McKinsey's Business Value of Design report, companies that prioritize design outperform industry benchmarks by 2:1 in revenue growth and shareholder returns.
Remote UX/UI designers, when properly integrated, can help you:
The key is finding the right designers and structuring the team for real-time collaboration.
UX and UI designers in Los Angeles are in high demand across industries. According to LinkedIn’s Workforce Insights, LA has one of the highest talent shortages for product designers among major U.S. cities, with demand consistently outpacing supply by over 30%.
Hiring remote designers gives companies access to a global talent pool of product-focused creatives with real-world startup experience.
Remote UX/UI resources give you the ability to scale design capacity without long-term commitments. Launching a new product line? Testing a feature set? You can add a designer for a sprint, a month, or six months, then adjust as needed.
You don’t have to sacrifice quality for savings. At Type B Digital, our remote design talent is based in Sri Lanka, Colombia, India, and Morocco and works during U.S. business hours, offering LA firms high-end design output at up to 50% lower cost than local hires, consistent with global averages reported by Accelerance and Remote OK.
Gone are the days when "remote" meant "delayed." With tools like Figma, Slack, Notion, and Loom, remote designers are fully embedded in your sprint cycles, design reviews, and team standups. Over 70% of design teams now report full alignment and collaboration across time zones thanks to real-time tools.
To help you understand the breadth of support remote designers can offer, here’s a look at the kinds of tasks our augmented designers typically handle.
Before diving into design sprints or hiring locally, these are the roles you can easily plug into your LA product team:
Each designer is selected based on your domain, product type, and preferred workflows. This ensures they integrate seamlessly with your team.
By leveraging remote design talent, you gain strategic design output without the delays, costs, or compromises of traditional hiring.
When FinTech startup Ferry Pay needed to revamp its user experience, it turned to Type B’s remote UX/UI team. In less than three months, we delivered:
The result was faster adoption, better retention, and a stronger brand presence, all achieved without bloated design agency costs.
Design isn’t just visual, it’s deeply collaborative. When hiring remote designers, make sure your partner:
You want designers who speak the language of sprints, MVPs, and user stories, not just color palettes.
Design is iterative. You need back-and-forth in real time, not once-a-day updates. Choose partners who overlap with LA hours.
From typography rules to button states, your designer should know how to build for scale and reuse, not just one-off screens.
Designers should plug into your existing workflows (Figma, Slack, Jira), participate in standups, and feel like part of your crew.
We work with ambitious tech teams across North America who need elite design support, fast.
Here’s what sets us apart:
Whether you’re launching a new feature, scaling your platform, or rebuilding your product experience from the ground up, we can help.
Let’s talk about how a remote UX/UI designer or an entire design squad can help you scale smarter in LA’s competitive tech landscape.
Let’s collaborate and build something extraordinary together.
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