Lead UX Designer

Lead UX Designer

Contract: 6 months initially

Hybrid: Chicago, IL (3 days a week on-site)

Responsibilities:

• Improve user experiences in collaboration with technology and business teams.
• Guide design to meet objectives and outcomes, influencing business and technology decisions with user needs in mind.
• Foster an open culture that promotes employee development through constructive feedback, diverse perspectives, and a sense of curiosity and optimism.
• Create user experiences from low-fidelity sketches to high-fidelity mockups and prototypes, applying the Digital Design System.
• Provide creative direction and conduct design reviews, balancing design decisions between research, technology, and business objectives.
• Solve experience problems and offer new perspectives on existing solutions.
• Exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
• Collaborate in an agile environment or ad hoc on emerging experience projects.
• Guide designers and researchers on current projects or digital products.

Required Skills:

• Proficiency in Human-Centered Design and UI/UX best practices, demonstrated through a professional portfolio.
• Expertise in various design methods and concepts, including low-fidelity sketching, information architecture, wireframe development, usability testing, research planning, and competitive analysis.
• Strong design skills in multiple competency areas (visual, interaction, information architecture, product).
• Effective presentation and storytelling skills.
• Ability to recognize, predict, and incorporate use cases and user interactions into design.
• Flexibility, adaptability to change, and comfort with ambiguity and critique.
• Proficient use of collaborative and communication tools.
• Growth mindset with a proactive approach to learning and challenges.

Experience:

• 7+ years of demonstrated work experience delivering digital experiences.
• Education in design or a related field, either formally or through comparable training.
• Experience with design thinking and UI/UX best practices, as shown in a professional portfolio.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams or in large-scale software development lifecycles, preferably in an agile environment.