Hicks

Senior UX Designer
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Chicago, Illinois Contract Sep 28, 2026
Senior UX Designer
Chicago / Peoria / Denver | Hybrid | 12 Months
Job Details
  • Estimated Start Date: 19 October 2026
  • Building Location: Chicago, Peoria or Denver offices
  • Remote Possibility: Remote-Hybrid
  • Additional Comments: if in Chicago or Peoria area, they will need to go in office when asked. If in Peoria, they would need to go into office more often.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group
  • Support the evolution of the Customer Experience, developing the CX portfolio, roadmap, and reference architecture
  • Interact with a cross-functional team and drive customer experience strategy and best practices to implement applications and platforms while maintaining a cohesive end-to-end experience
  • Participate in delivery of projects, working through the many obstacles along the way across multiple teams, roles (UI/UX designers, business analysts, product owners, etc) and organizations through diligent planning, attention to detail, communications, and efficient decision making
  • Strong passion and hands-on technical experience
  • Support the production of concept service designs and/or participate in the creation of artifacts by domain architects and implement personas, journey maps, storyboards, etc.
  • Utilize exceptional problem-solving skills to work through difficult challenges and identify executable solutions
  • Effectively collaborate with other eBusiness CX architects, technical architects and data/content owners to define elements needed to deliver the experience
  • Stay current with innovative improvements/processes available in the larger world of experience design
Typical Day or Week in the Role
Typical Task Breakdown
  • Typical groups this position will interact with include business partners responsible for individual elements of a customers’ experience (product groups, content area, etc) as well as vendors hired by these business partners.
  • In addition, this position may work directly with dealers and end customers.
  • These interactions stretch across the entirety of business model and organization.
  • This position may have direct relationships with Global Product Owners (GPO), Marketing/Product Support Managers, and Directors of various organizations, both internal and external.
  • The position is challenged to identify problems quickly and correctly, some which may not be obvious.
  • The incumbent solves problems by determining the best course of action, within departmental guidelines, from many existing solutions.
  • Communications for needed investments, architectural changes, or business needs is critical to ensure solutions can be created to deliver the best experience possible.
Interaction with Team
  • Working with a Product team.
Team Structure
  • Main workspace is with 2-3 other UX Designers and reporting to product owner and working with development leads (front end and back end).
Work Environment
  • Hybrid work environment (come in when asked)
Education & Experience Required
  • Bachelor’s Degree required w/ 8 years experience required
  • Masters degree w/ 5 years experience required
Technical Skills
Required
  • Top 4 Skills: Proficient in Figma, asks insightful questions, effective communication, willingness to collaborate
  • At least 3+ years UX Design experience
  • Preference will be given to candidates who have proven experience designing complex solutions for complete digital environments
  • 3 years of experience with design tools such as Figma (required 1+ years), Sketch and other UX/UI software
  • Comfortable working autonomously with product and engineering teams
Desired
  • 3+ year exp designing complex systems or applications