Hybrid Work - Need Senior UX Designer in Chicago IL

Hybrid 3x a week onsite in Chicago IL (Local Only)

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Project Overview

Portfolio required with submission

Looking for a UX designer to join one of our teams focused on a product redesign and re-platform. The position requires detailed visual and interface design, with some support for research, development, definition work, and exploratory concepting. Much of the work for this role will focus on creating and evolving new features and functionality, working closely with development teams to bring the application to life.We're a large, highly collaborative team working on a complex product. We work directly with business, product, development, and technology teams, and an upcoming release means opportunities to be involved in client research, training, and service definition.

Contractor’s Role

As part of a product design team within a larger business group you will have many responsibilities, but also variety, which keeps it lively. This team is also a part of the larger internal design team, which is great for exposure to other projects and expanding your experience.

Experience Level

Level 3, 7+ years’ experience

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in UX, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, HCI, or related field
• 1-5 years of professional UX/UI experience, working within an enterprise or agency environment
• Experience creating desktop / responsive web applications
• Working familiarity with some flavor of UI tools: Figma, Sketch, InVision, Abstract, Zeplin, etc.
• Flexibility to handle various design tasks including concepting, research, visual design
• Strong communication and conceptual thinking abilities
• Experience working directly with subject matter experts, stakeholder teams, or research participants to translate their needs into design outputs
• Current online portfolio that demonstrates solving client problems — a URL to work examples must be provided for consideration
  
  

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience working within established design systems
• Experience in storyboarding/writing, data visualizations, animation, usability studies
• Financial services experience is nice to have, but not required
  
  

Tasks And Responsibilities

• Be a champion for user-centered design and the client voice
• Uncover user needs through discovery sessions with teams across the bank and research with employees and clients
• Quickly generate concepts and communicate them to various audiences through hand sketches, digital prototypes, or motion examples
• Implement brand-appropriate design based on existing design systems and UX best practices
• Manage feedback from business teams, clients, and product to find practical, useful design solutions
• Create production-ready UI that represents the approved design, and collaborate with developers to build a good experience