Senior User Experience Designer - Insight Global

Position: Sr UX/UI Designer

Location

Hybrid Tuesday-Thursday in Chicago, IL

Duration

6-12M contract with extensions/conversion

Interview Process: 1-2 video interviews

Must Haves:

• 7+ years of UX/UI Designer experience (80% UX focused)
• Experience applying design systems and guidelines to a broad range of front-end applications, dashboards, and reports.
• Experience with prototyping, journey mapping, wireframing, user testing and development hands off.
• Figma and Miro experience
• Portfolio presenting high design acumen (NO print work)

Day-to-Day:

Insight Global’s large multinational food client is looking for a UX Designer to join their rich and robust team of designers. This role is a critical partner in expanding the User Experience practice at the company. As a Senior UX Designer within the Digital Revolution team you will work cross-functionally to drive and deliver a flawless experience across every point of engagement, primarily in the context of their enterprise internal employee portal. You are joining the Design practice during a period of high growth and will help to accelerate the current momentum by building positive partnerships across Engineering, Product, Data Science and Agile.

This role develops, informs, and evangelizes process and design ops throughout the org, project types and points of engagement. This individual will be responsible for conducting/assessing research, meeting with stakeholders, conducting a series of design exercises to be clean, intuitive, and task-focused, and reimagining the overall look and feel of the utility touchpoints.

Responsibilities Include:

• Inject design into the product development lifecycle through each stage: ideation, concepting, feasibility, development, deployment, QA, analysis.
• Lead formal usability testing sessions with a broad set of user types.
• Conduct user research using personas, behavioral archetypes, site maps, user flows, user interviews, card sorting, journey mapping, competitive audits, and market research.
• Leverage research, gather first-person insights and collaborate with parallel teams when building out wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes for review, stakeholder signoff and handoff to engineering.
• Relentlessly advocate for elevating the user experience across all touchpoints and position the user at the center of all of our problem-solving sessions.
• Assist with requirements gathering sessions, IA/sitemap development, user story creation, persona/archetype design, wireframing/prototyping, user research, moderating user-testing sessions (on-site and remote) and more.