UX Designer 5

Job title UX Designer 5

Location: Deerfield, Illinois (Remote)

Role Overview

This organization is seeking a Senior Product Designer to take the lead in designing complex features and initiatives for an assigned product area. The successful candidate will work closely with cross-functional partners across business, product, and engineering to progress the customer experience while continuing to raise the level of quality. Valuable frameworks, design tools, and user-centered design methodologies will be utilized to achieve these objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the designs for wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, site maps, interactions, high-fidelity designs, and prototypes for medium to large-sized features or initiatives.

• Collaborate with designated partners to uphold design and user experience quality, consistency, and alignment across all initiatives while translating research insights into customer-driven experiences.

• Leverage the established design system to ensure consistency in experiences across the ecosystem while identifying opportunities to evolve new guidelines and user interface patterns.

• Communicate design ideas and sell concepts to members of the product pod and key stakeholders, negotiating to arrive at compromises that meet both customer and business needs.

• Ensure design solutions are informed by the voice of the customer, partnering with design leadership to identify opportunities where research can inspire or elevate the design.

• Consider existing insights, technical constraints, business needs, and platform-specific requirements to produce data-informed solutions.

• Manage concurrent design deliverables for multiple features, communicating progress, dependencies, and challenges to ensure risk mitigation and timely delivery.

• Inform and participate in user research activities to ensure the research yields insights that can inform the evolution of the design solution.

• Proactively identify and resolve high-level issues to ensure the shipped experiences match the design deliverables.

• Promote design thinking practices within the product pod.

• Required Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, User Experience, Interaction Design, or a related field.

• Experience: At least 3 years of experience designing for large-scale desktop, mobile web, and mobile app consumer experiences, along with experience working in a fast-paced environment as a member of a cross-functional team and familiarity with Agile software development practices.

• Technical

Skills

• Proficiency in prototyping tools such as Sketch, Figma, or Adobe Creative Cloud, experience designing with WCAG accessibility standards, and experience designing for both web and mobile platforms. A strong online or PDF portfolio demonstrating the application of design thinking methodologies is required for consideration.

Benefits

• Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

• Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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