at Apex Systems in CHICAGO, Illinois, United States
Job Description
Job#: 2039349
Job Description:
Job Title:Senior Product Designer
Location:Candidates must be local to Chicago, IL(this is a fully on-site opportunity)
The User Experience Designer will work closely across the Digital Product, Design & Engineering organizations and collaborate with cross-functional partners to bring the future of the companyto life. This position is a key member of our User Experience team, ensuring our experiences are intuitive and engaging for users. This includes facilitating a user-centered discovery process, as well as creating information architecture, design concepts and prototypes that deliver on our Universal Experience Principles, providing valuable solutions to our customers.
Must Have
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Photoshop
- Creative & Design
- Figma
- Prototyping
- SAAS
- Sketch
- UI designer
- UI/UX designer
- visual designer
Nice To Have
- HTML
- CSS
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with user experience team members to research, concept and design intuitive experiences that simplify complex functionality.
- Create recommendations in the form of site maps, user flows, wireframes and high-fidelity interaction-based prototypes for project initiatives.
- Support user research activities, including usability testing, heuristic evaluations and user interviews.
- Collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to advocate user needs, as well as understand business goals and technical capabilities, to move forward customer centric strategies.
- Work with development through implementation to ensure the desired user experience is carried through.
- Ideal candidate for this role is highly encouraged to find ways to cultivate and share knowledge and best practices with peers and collaborators.
Knowledge, Skills & Ability Required:
- BA or Certification in Design, with concentration in Experience Design, User Experience, Interaction Design or related field
- 2-5 years of experience in a field that directly or readily translates to the responsibilities of this role
- A portfolio of work that demonstrates a professional caliber of a skill related to the function of this role
- Ability to own and articulate design decisions
- Basic understanding of agile product development
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Exposure and/or training in Design Thinking principles and methodologies is advantageous
- Identifies new opportunities by creating bonds of trust with team members, customers, and clients.
- Identifies opportunities for necessary/impactful changes and actively drives appropriate designs.
- Mentors across team in development and technical skills, as well as, Design & Innovation methods.
- Demonstrates passion and focus on the total holistic customer experience, including all five senses.
- Works iteratively. Decides and acts appropriately when all available information may not be possible to obtain. Makes small informed decisions and course correct as a result of feedback to those decisions.
- Proficiency with prototyping tools such as Sketch, Axure, InVision, Photoshop
- Knowledge of HTML and CSS a plus
- Expertise in usability, accessibility and responsive design best practices
