Role: UX/UI Designer
Location: Chicago, IL (Hybrid – onsite 3 days per week)
Duration: 12 Months
Project Overview:
The Design team is looking for a UX designer to join one of our teams focused on a product redesign and re-platform. The position requires detailed, 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.
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
Key Experience:
Experience designing high-fidelity, production-ready UI for complex, enterprise products
Partner with and manage feedback from business teams, clients, and product to find practical, useful design solutions
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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 Figma
• 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
• Ensures deliverables are accessible (WCAG 2.1)
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
• HTML/CSS Knowledge
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
About Us
Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE® is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential.
Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits
SPECTRAFORCE® offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE® provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
SPECTRAFORCE® is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.comif you require reasonable accommodation.