Sr. UX Designer

3 days Hybrid long term contract role

Must be in Chicago

Our direct client is looking for a UX designer to join the 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.

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.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in UX, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, HCI, or related field

• 7+ 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

• 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

Please share your updated resume for immediate consideration. Thanks!!