Title: Senior UI/UX Designer Location: Mettawa, IL - Hybrid - 3 days onsite / 2 Remote Duration: 6 months to 1 year - based on performance and business needs
Job Description: As a senior UI/UX designer, you will leverage your expertise in UI and UX design, WCAG accessibility standards, information architecture, and human-centered design principles to craft intuitive and engaging data-driven multi-channel digital solutions. In this collaborative role, you'll work closely with a team of designers, writers, editors, account and project managers, creative managers, and marketers to create new and refine existing multi-channel content, ensuring compliance with FDA regulations and delivering user-centric solutions.
Responsibilities:
Prototypes: Design user flows, wireframes, and high-fidelity prototypes in Figma for AEM websites, emails, web banner ads, social media ads, and future digital touchpoints.
Design systems: Create and maintain design systems in Figma for AEM websites, emails, web banner ads, social media ads, and future digital touchpoints. Leverage Figma’s tokens, variables, styles, and properties and ensure scalability and consistency across design systems.
Design system documentation: Develop and maintain multi-brand design systems in ZeroHeight, providing visual guidelines and business rules for designers and business owners. Connect ZeroHeight to Figma and share patterns/components with designers and developers for seamless design implementation.
AEM websites: Design high-fidelity prototypes in Figma for health-care professionals and patient-facing AEM websites, understanding AEM component functionality to ensure Figma designs can be authored in AEM. Collaborate with developers to ensure seamless translation of Figma prototypes into AEM websites.
SharePoint websites: Design and maintain internal SharePoint sites, controlling user access and permissions.
Emails: Design and update email campaigns using Knak Email Builder, ensuring accessibility and optimal rendering in email clients through testing and optimization in Email on Acid. This includes verifying dark mode compatibility, color contrast, alt text, and cross-device and email client functionality. Collaborate with developers to bring emails to completion.
Collaboration: Present UI/UX creative solutions to cross-functional teams, engage in real-time design collaboration with creative and marketing leads, and champion UI/UX best practices.
Must Have
Education and experience: Bachelor’s degree in design or related discipline; 5+ years of experience working in a creative agency on UI/UX design.
Portfolio: Work samples that demonstrate UI/UX skills, website design, email campaign design and design systems.
Technical skills: Skilled in Figma and Photoshop, with a strong foundation in UI/UX design principles and processes; proficient in designing accessible interfaces that meet WCAG standards.
Soft skills: Highly organized and efficient, with excellent time management skills and a proactive approach to driving projects to completion in a fast-paced environment; demonstrates a growth mindset, receptive to constructive feedback, and able to adapt and pivot quickly to get projects back on track.
Work model: Ability to work on-site 3 days a week.
Nice to Have, but not required
Software: Experience with AEM websites, SharePoint, ZeroHeight, Knak Email Builder, and Email on Acid (You’ll learn how to use this software on the job).
Scripting languages: CSS and HTML.
Pharmaceutical experience: Experience working in a highly regulated environment, with the understanding of FDA regulations and their design implications.
Overtime: Ability to work overtime when needed to complete time-sensitive projects.
About Us: Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE® is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams. We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 140 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation. SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of “human connection,” defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA®, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people and clients can reach their highest potential. Learn more at: http://www.spectraforce.com
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, critical illness, voluntary life, and hospital indemnity insurances to eligible employees. Additional benefits offered to eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching, and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE provides unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at LOA@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $9.86/hr.
