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I had the luxury of being able to hire interaction designers, visual designers, prototypers, icon designers, illustrators, sound designers etc. when I was at Microsoft but my feeling is that here in Hawaii a "UX Designer" needs to be a jack of all trades... true? Typically, my role at Microsoft was to create a set of wireframes that then got translated and animated into a GUI that I directed but really was an orchestration of specialized talent.

Does a UX Designer need to be a jack of all trades here or are there opportunities more like an art director or interaction director?

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Not sure if this has to do with Hawaii per se, but rather with the size and sophistication of the company ... you might be hard pressed to find very many companies anywhere that do things the same way Microsoft does (for better or worse). I would think that larger companies and those working on products/services are more likely to have dedicated UX staff on their team than would smaller, leaner companies like consulting/contracting firms.
I would suspect that, like many other computer-related fields, UI dsigners are now expected to "do everything". I'm a software engineer whose work has mostly been C++, MFC. But when I look through job postings they want everything under the sun. It used to be that a company would hire a database person, a web designer, a UI desiger, a back-end" designer, and on and on. Now they want one person who does all that and more. And all that within a three-to-five year time frame of experience. I don't know how they're finding those kinds of peopl, but apparently they are
I actually haven't seen much emphasis on UX in Hawai'i. It seems like people are more interested in getting a product out of the door and hoping that the UI will be good enough. I can't say that I blame them - when your budget is limited, the priority is to have something rather than something usable, so many companies are motivated to look for coders first and designers second.

Beyond economics, there's the simple fact that UX is really kind of an invisible art - the better an interface is designed, the less it will be noticed by users.
I think the problem with Hawaii companies looking for employees that are jack of all trades, is that there aren't many companies that are large enough to have the kind of specialization that you experienced at Microsoft.

If a business has 10 technical areas they have to cover, and only 3 "techies" on staff, people have to pull multiple duties.

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