Sr. UX Designer Job at Apex Systems, Lisle, IL

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  • Apex Systems
  • Lisle, IL

Job Description

Position Overview

As a Sr UX Designer, you are responsible for leading and executing user-centered design within your digital product's journey(s). You own, make space for, and advocate for the user’s needs. You ensure your work meets user and business needs, brand standards, UX and UI best practices, and align with our Design System. You employ user research, usability testing, empathy, and communication skills to make the case for the user-centered design recommendations you make. You create and deliver information architecture, flows, prototypes, and UI specs that result in great digital products.

Responsibilities

  • Be the design owner, stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the product owner.
  • Plan and perform evidence-based user experience design activities to ensure that your product’s customer value and business outcomes are aligned and realized.
  • Facilitate collaboration activities and workshops to see things from diMerent perspectives by involving relevant. stakeholders and teams and co-create with users and stakeholders all over the world.
  • Develop a deep understanding of your product’s business and user needs.
  • Refine lo-fidelity flows into high fidelity prototypes and final specs.
  • Communicate eMectively with stakeholders about design decisions.
  • Support Design Ops standardizing best methods, practices, and assets.
  • Coach and share knowledge on design methods, tools, and trends with your fellow colleagues, Mentor more junior designers.
  • You are proficient in using design tools such as Mural, and Figma.

Desired Skills

We are looking for a designer with 7+ years of professional experience in a UX product design role, where you have delivered high quality user-centered products using user-validated UX / Design thinking methodologies to deliver evidence-based design.

Collaborating with others to meet shared objectives is something you enjoy. You are a team player, motivating and supporting others comes naturally to you, believing that we are better together.

Required Skills

  • Natural Leader
  • Demonstrable prior experience designing high quality UX products.
  • Portfolio: Strong case studies and relevant work samples.
  • Ability to shepherd stakeholders and work through the UX process from user journey through release; Agency experience a plus.
  • UX Writing: Must write precise UX copy well in US English.
  • Create and present case studies for projects.
  • Be open to feedback, iteration, and suggestion.
  • Stay curious, maintain a learner’s mindset.
  • Be highly organized and drive order in files, process, and artifacts.
  • Persistent design validation with users.
  • Formal education and/or demonstrable practical learning experience in design thinking, relevant humanistic fields, and/or design subjects.

Soft Skills

  • Leadership
  • Client/Partner Management
  • Collaboration
  • Problem Solving
  • Presentation

Hard Skills

  • UX Writing
  • UI Design
  • Prototyping
  • UX Design
  • Interaction

Design

  • IA Design
  • Research Tools
  • Mural
  • Figma
  • Jira/ADO

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