User Experience Designer

Hybrid:
Detroit, MI HQ (3 days/week onsite)

$60.00 – 70.00/hour+ (flexible D.O.E.)

We are seeking a UX/UI Designer to support UX design strategy, research, ideation, and asset creation to streamline customer journeys across multiple major lines of business.

The ideal candidate will be a high-performing creative professional who excels at collaboration, craves simplicity, and digs deep in search of ever- faster, easier, more intuitive ways to conduct business online. If you are seeking a place to make the complex understandable and love solving riddles, keep reading and apply!

Responsibilities include (but are not limited to):

• Individually perform various design-related functions of a UX department embedded within the operations center to enable digital transformation and drive digital adoption.
• Faithfully communicate, represent, and carry out the design direction of enterprise UX leadership to ensure design meets enterprise standards in the end-to-end customer journey.
• Coordinate with onsite engineering and business stakeholders to perform design discovery, ideation, and asset creation necessary to propel continuous improvement sprint-to-sprint.
• Represent the UX practice, its ideals, standards, and methods, as an advocate, leading contributor, and collaborator to numerous stakeholders.
• Engage and lead colleagues in research, co-creation, knowledge sharing, and critique to help maintain the integrity of the Ally design system, while continually aligning to best practices, industry standards and emerging digital trends.

Required skills:

• 5+ years designing digital user experiences with a preferred 3+ years of experience in transactional user interface design.
• UX design mastery of information architecture, wire framing, and prototyping.
• Online portfolio with detailed narrative outlining approach and scope of involvement.
• Proficiency in Figma, or other industry standard design authoring tools.
• Rudimentary knowledge of HTML, CSS, and UI frameworks or component libraries.
• Familiarity working with design systems; design ops experience is a significant advantage.
• Ability to balance routine and continuous throughput for tactical initiatives with long-term strategic engagement.
• Bachelor’s degree in UX, related field, or equivalent industry training / experience.

What’s in it for you…?

• Join an innovative design team focusing on relentless improvement and engaging users during every step of their journey.
• High visibility with industry leaders in IT and design encourages forging connections and learning and further developing your skills.
• Enroll in comprehensive health benefits and weekly paychecks.