UX Designer

UX Designer

Location: Chicago, IL

Role Overview

Own UX work at the intersection of product strategy, visual design, and user research. Translate complex user needs into intuitive, high-fidelity interfaces for web and mobile, partnering with Product Managers and frontend engineers to create seamless workflows.

Responsibilities

• Create user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity mockups in Figma for complex, data-dense enterprise workflows.
• Maintain and scale a centralized design system, ensuring consistent UI patterns, accessibility standards, and component library usage.
• Build interactive prototypes using Figma, ProtoPie, or Principle for reviews, presentations, and usability testing.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure designs are translated into production-grade code; review implementation/layouts.
• Plan and run qualitative user research, including:
  • structured usability tests
  • card sorting
  • contextual inquiries
• Analyze findings from user feedback, session recordings, and product analytics to identify friction and propose iterative UX improvements.

Requirements

• 3–6 years of professional experience as a UX Designer / Product Designer (or equivalent) in a technology product company.
• A strong portfolio showing:
  • a structured design process
  • user research methodology
  • high-quality visual execution for complex web applications
• Advanced skills with design tools, especially Figma, plus prototype-sharing tools.
• Strong knowledge of responsive design systems, grid layouts, and web accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA).
• Bachelor’s degree in HCI, Interaction Design, Graphic Design, or equivalent practical experience.

Bonus / Nice to Have

• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS, and/or component frameworks like React.
• Experience designing data visualization tools.