0915 - Sr UX/UI Designer

Our client is a Chicago-headquartered IT consulting firm founded in 2008, with team members based across four continents and nine countries. Joining them means working alongside a globally distributed team of engineers, consultants, and technology specialists on projects for enterprise clients, including 17 Fortune 100 companies, multiple Fortune 500 organizations, and many household names recognized worldwide. Project work spans industries such as engineering, transportation, manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, finance, and retail, and falls under service areas including Digital Strategy, Marketing & Data Execution, Software Experience Development, Quality Engineering, Security, and AI solutions. Over its 16+ year history, our client has been recognized by the Department of Defense, featured in a published Adobe Systems case study, and honored with the AT&T Crystal Award and the Illinois Hiring Heroes award for its commitment to veteran hiring. Consultants work across on-site, remote, and hybrid engagements, giving employees exposure to a broad range of technologies, clients, and industries throughout their careers.

The customer is a company in the CRO, Clinical Trials, and Pharmaceutical space.

Summary of Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate strong visual design skills with proven experience creating polished, modern enterprise web experiences, including complex data-heavy workflows, dashboards, and scalable interaction patterns.
- Translate complex business requirements into intuitive, visually compelling interfaces while maintaining consistency across large-scale enterprise ecosystems.
- Define and maintain enterprise-level design systems, component libraries, interaction patterns, and UX governance standards to ensure consistency and scalability across platforms.
- Advocate for accessibility and inclusive design practices, ensuring compliance with WCAG guidelines and usability standards.
- Transform complex workflows, domain-specific concepts, and data-intensive processes into intuitive, user-friendly experiences.
- Partner closely with engineering teams to ensure design feasibility, responsive behavior, and high-quality implementation fidelity.
- Facilitate workshops, design critiques, stakeholder alignment sessions, and cross-functional discovery activities.
- Create user flows, journey maps, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to effectively communicate design solutions.

Qualifications:
- Strong proficiency in modern UX methodologies, including design thinking, heuristic evaluation, usability testing, information architecture, and interaction design.
- Experience designing enterprise SaaS products, dashboards, workflow-heavy applications, or data visualization interfaces.
- Knowledge of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1/2.2), responsive design principles, and mobile-first best practices.
- Experience building and maintaining scalable design systems using Figma or similar tools.
- Ability to present and defend design decisions using user research, analytics, and business objectives (Upper-Intermediate spoken and written English or above is required).

Experience:
- Minimum of 5+ years of experience in a UX/UI or Product Designer role, collaborating with cross-functional teams including Product Managers, Engineers, subject matter experts, and business stakeholders in Agile environments.
- Demonstrated experience working closely with product and engineering teams in Agile settings.
- Experience facilitating user interviews, usability studies, and stakeholder workshops within enterprise environments.

Benefits and working conditions:

• Well-known customer with modern technologies
  - Competitive salary
  - Great international team (from the US, England, Poland, India)
  - CET business hours (10:00-11:00 AM to 6:00-7:00 PM)
  - 10 days vacation, 5 sick days, 6 US-based holidays

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