Senior UX Designer - Software

Geoforce - Chicago, IL

Full-time - Senior

Chicago, IL

Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services

About the position

As a Senior UX Designer at Geoforce, you will play a crucial role in advocating for users of our hardware and software products. Your primary focus will be on conducting user research, ideation, and validation within an agile team. You will collaborate closely with developers to ensure that design details are implemented correctly and meet user needs. This position requires a blend of strong communication skills, design expertise, and the ability to work with various stakeholders to create user-centered solutions for complex technical problems.

Responsibilities

• Daily collaboration with a project team in designing user-focused solutions that solve large, complex, and highly technical problems in simple, consistent, and straightforward ways.
• Conduct research efforts alongside a product manager and development lead to gain a better understanding of our users' wants and needs.
• Compile and present discovery insights and user testing results across teams.
• Rapidly generate ideas using flow diagrams, user journeys, sketches, wireframes, and quick prototypes to facilitate discussion with the team and validate concepts with both users and internal stakeholders.
• Coordinate with the UX team to ensure proposed solutions align with design standards and continually strive to maintain consistency across products and platforms.
• Contribute to an evolving design system by creating user interface elements and help document usage as our library grows and expands.
• Create high-fidelity mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how applications function to facilitate both usability testing and internal communications.
• Actively participate in daily stand-ups with your team and validate that release candidates are built as designed.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of experience in UX design, preferably within B2B enterprise software or software-as-a-service environments.
• Proven experience modernizing and evolving legacy solutions within a technology-focused company is highly desired.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles and methodologies.
• Bachelor's degree in an area of HCI, design, psychology or other related field, or be able to demonstrate equivalent and relevant experience.
• Deep knowledge and experience with design and prototyping software.
• Experience designing responsive/adaptive browser-based solutions for content-dense enterprise applications.
• Able to identify usability issues and provide alternative solutions.
• Involvement in design system development, usage, and maintenance.
• Intermediate knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript libraries (No coding required).
• Native iOS and/or Android design experience.
• Experience with accessibility and WCAG 2.1 compliance.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in IoT applications and telematics across a variety of equipment types.