Senior Product Designer

at W.W. Grainger, Inc. in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Work Location Type:Hybrid

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we're dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified company, we're looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:
Grainger Insights presents data and information to our users through robust reporting tools and actionable dashboards. The Senior Product Designer for Grainger Insights will use well-developed interaction and visual design skills to create software with robust filtering capabilities allowing our users to search, consume, and manipulate data. This is a full-spectrum UX interaction design role - from research and solution design to final UI deliverables and testing. You will be working with agile sprint teams with an emphasis on team collaboration.
This is a unique opportunity to employ high-tech software and service design within a top-rated, well-established industrial supplier. You will report to the Senior Manager of UX Design for Grainger Insights.

You Will:

Work with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Engineers, and QA to design experiences for Grainger customers and internal users

Create design concepts, customer journeys, and pixel perfect design deliverables.

Translate requirements and user needs into tangible interaction designs through annotated wireframes and visual designs

Leverage and contribute to Grainger's design system documentation

Understand technical and business constraints and scale designs for iterative release, ensuring user needs are met in each iteration

Evaluate current experiences and provide recommendations for improvement

Conduct user research, evaluative user testing, session replay analysis and secondary research to improve experiences

Communicate design decisions, rationale, and direction when presenting work

Collaborate with the UX team to align patterns across products

Develop concepts to help test new, innovative ideas

Actively seek out feedback from other UI Designers, UX Designers and UX leadership on UX design concepts and deliverables to ensure the best solution is created.

Lead review sessions of in progress work with partners (product managers, engineers, business stakeholders), UX team, and UX leadership

You Have:

5+ years experience as a UX/UI designer or product designer

Formal education in Human Centered Design, Design Methods, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or related field, or equivalent experience

Expertise in information design, UX design, usability, and accessibility

Proficiency in responsive web design best practices

Experience visualizing complex data and creating Infographics

Experience using and contributing to pattern libraries and comprehensive design systems

Strong proficiency in Figma, UX and component libraries

Work sample or portfolio that demonstrates expertise in product design

Prior experience with eCommerce and data-centric products is a plus

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one's employment. With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.

Grainger is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.