Posted 6 days ago

Sr Designer, UI/UX

Company: KeHE
Category: IT

 Naperville

Type: Full Time

The Senior UI/UX Designer partners with their engineers, product managers, business analysts, and business stakeholders to oversee all user experience and design operations across applications. As an integral part of Digital Experience Team (DEX), you will also own the process of creating a cohesive ecosystem throughout applications by managing and maintaining a living style guide and a pattern library.
Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the Senior UX/UI Designer facilitates design thinking workshops, creates and carries out research plans, and designs interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member enables the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively. As a senior member of the team, they mentor UI/UX resources within the organization and make sure the team is effectively utilizing UI and UX best practices and adhere to brand standards.
Pay Range: $95,700.00/Yr. – $127,490.00/Yr. Benefits on Day 1: Health/Rx; Dental; Vision; Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA); Supplemental life insurance; 401(k); Paid time off; Paid sick time; Short-term & long-term disability coverage (STD/LTD); Employee stock ownership (ESOP); Holiday pay for company designated holidays.
Responsibilities:

  • Design elegant, thoughtful solutions for complex workflows through the use of type, hierarchy, interactions, and design patterns.
  • Assure design quality by collaborating closely with design team, developers, product owners, and business analysts to write clear and detailed specs.
  • Co-Own KeHE’s design system; maintain and updating our pattern library, living style guide and Sketch (soon to be Figma) component library.
  • Develop and define UI standards and advocate for UI/UX best practices.
  • Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams.
  • Function as the product owner for KeHE’s design system; partner with internal stakeholders and product owners to prioritize stories and manage the backlog in preparation for development.
  • Prioritize UI project schedules and deliverables across multiple products.
  • Conduct competitive research, discovery research and usability studies.
  • Facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements.
  • Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, UI specifications & requirements, prototypes/wireframes.
  • Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Developers to define and translate business and functional requirements into user-friendly and technically optimal/feasible designs.
  • Design and conduct usability studies to ensure designs are intuitive and easy-to-use.
  • Demonstrate UI/UX best practices in product teams.
  • Coach and mentor team members.
  • Stay current with UX, visual design, best practices and front-end technologies.