Senior UX Designer

Allied Solutions - Batavia, IL

Full-time - Senior

Batavia, IL

Merchant Wholesalers, Nondurable Goods

About the position

The Senior UX Designer at Allied Solutions is responsible for creating elegant and accessible design solutions while managing the digital design system, Affinity. This role involves collaborating closely with research and engineering teams to ensure alignment from initial findings to application build. The Senior UX Designer also mentors other designers and focuses on delivering high-quality design outputs efficiently.

Responsibilities

• Design intuitive and user-friendly interfaces that meet UX and product strategy requirements.
• Create wireframes and prototypes according to product needs.
• Ability to create layouts with a design system.
• Provide insights and incorporate user research into interface designs.
• Determine and create user flows through software products.
• Utilize responsive and atomic design to create scalable interfaces.
• Adopt user experience best practices to create modern and familiar interaction design.
• Present designs and rationales to product teams, stakeholders, and executives.
• Work with UX Engineers to see designs go through development.
• Create, deploy, and analyze quick iterative tests to validate wireframes and prototypes.
• Support UX Research by attending and/or conducting user research including interviews and testing.
• Participate in and/or facilitate Design Thinking workshops.
• Lead and influence others without formal authority.
• Collaborate and communicate across the organization with business units, stakeholders, and product teams.
• Engage in challenging conversations with the right balance of candor and diplomacy.
• Chair a product governance steering committee of cross-departmental subject matter experts.
• Create, deploy, and analyze quick iterative tests to validate wireframes and prototypes.
• Manage the color, typographic, and icons for the design system.
• Create documentation around functionality for each component.
• Manage work sprints with Sr. UX Engineer and run Sprint retrospectives.

Requirements

• Master's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience preferred.
• 3 - 4 years of directly related work experience required.
• Knowledge of industry tools like Figma and Adobe.
• Problem-solving skills to determine solutions to user interface challenges.
• Ability to work both independently and in a team.
• Attention to detail and mastery of information design.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills to communicate ideas to developers.
• Multi-tasking and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience in leading Design Thinking workshops.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and sprint management.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage.
• 100% company-paid life and disability coverage.
• 401k options with company match.
• Three weeks PTO by the end of the first year.