UX​/Interaction Designer IV

Description
Preferred Hours of work: 9 to 5 pm CST

Work Locations:
Hybrid - 1 to 2 days a week onsite
Preferred Chicago

Will this person have to travel? Yes
If so what is the of travel: 10 to 20
Will they be reimbursed for travel? yes

The Senior Designer - UX will help lead the design and definition as a key contributor to our client's Core UX team responsible for integrating human-centered practices in unpacking and improving the digital customer experience across all stages of the travel journey. The Core UX team supports defining our client's digital product strategy and providing the leadership to execute on that strategy with the help of a cross-functional mission-based teams.

Were looking for an empathic passionate curious designer who celebrates delivering high-quality solutions and thrives for innovation in a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities

PLAN CONCEPT
- Visualize ideas using professional design tools as well as sticky notes sketch boards whiteboard markers or whatever tools are necessary to rapidly work through ideation and move to the next stage
- Initiate and respond to ideas for innovation/improvements based on research analysis and competitive reviews
- Identify user needs and business requirements
- Substantiate design approach with analysis projections for improvements

DESIGN REFINE
- Ensure digital customer touch points become and remain consistent with our client's user experience and brand standards
- Develop intuitive usable and engaging interactions
- Drive the design of next generation navigation schemes patterns components and templates across the companys products insuring a consistent appealing and dynamic customer experience.
- Create low and high fidelity interactive prototypes adhering to a rapid iterative and collaborative process
- Work with usability researchers to design test plans and iterate designs throughout user testing. Translate usability research findings into design improvements.

DEFINE COMMUNICATE
- Create final design deliverables through appropriately detailed design specifications including: process flows wireframes storyboards high and low fidelity mockups red-lines and prototypes
- Present design work to the user experience team product team and executives for review and feedback
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams as well as the larger UX team and business partners throughout the design process
- Communicate harmoniously with multiple stakeholders to synthesize review design project progress and incorporate feedback appropriately with a user-centered focus
- During implementation phase respond to day-to-day questions from developers product managers project managers
- Work with QA to identify document and verify bug fixes
- Provide guidance and mentor junior designers

Education/Certification
- BA/BS or equivalent work experience required
Knowledge/Skills
- Solid grasp of web design principles and a good understanding of front-end web technologies required
- Excellent understanding of user experience design for the Web mobile and touch devices required
- Ability to coordinate prioritize and accomplish multiple tasks in a fast-paced atmosphere with minimal supervision required
- Experience in writing detailed design specifications IA work flow page functionality and layout etc. which technology developers use to build the product required
- Must be a self-starter that can create schedules and define scope of work even when there are no clear requirements and direction required
- Strong ability to communicate your design defend your design decisions and respond quickly to business needs required
- Proven ability to set the design direction for your projects and to collaborate with other designers working in the space required
- A team player who can easily adapt in a rapidly changing environment required
Experience
- 5 years professional UX design experience required
- 8 years professional UX design experience preferred
Skills
visual design, ux design
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- Portfolio must showcase strong visual design craft and high fidelity UI work. This is a critical evaluation component.
- Experience designing consumer facing digital products at scale.
- Ability to balance UX strategy with hands on design execution.
- Strong understanding of design systems and scaling consistent experiences across products.
- Experience presenting and defending design decisions to Senior leadership and cross functional stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous environments and help define solutions when requirements are not fully established.
- Experience in travel, loyalty, financial services, ecommerce, or other complex customer journey environments is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience translating business objectives and user needs into intuitive digital experiences.
- Candidates with conversational AI, GenAI, chatbot, virtual assistant, or AI enabled product design experience are highly preferred.
- Strong portfolio examples highlighting interaction design, micro…