Senior UI Designer

Codal • Chicago, IL

16h • $90,000 - $140,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Codal is an award-winning web design and development consultancy that helps enterprise organizations solve complex problems and accelerate growth through elegant, data-driven digital solutions. Their areas of expertise include application modernization, eCommerce, UX/UI design, product strategy, data analytics, and artificial intelligence. At Codal, you will collaborate with some of the most innovative organizations in the world and work on cutting-edge technologies that push the boundaries of design and software development. Codal promotes long-term success for both clients and team members, helping to develop professional roadmaps. Codal’s design team is searching for a supremely creative Senior UI Designer with a background in web applications, e-commerce sites, and/or mobile apps. The ideal candidate uses informed intuition to create compelling and useful user interfaces that also achieve client objectives. As a member of the Codal design team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow designers, learn from each other, and benefit from a sprint-based approach that allows time to think and explore new ideas while delivering consistently for clients. Codal values work-life balance and a 40-hour work week, empowering designers to seek training and development opportunities and define their work processes.

Requirements

• An understanding of key design principles such as typography, illustration, imagery, content, and composition, and excel in wielding them in a web design application.
• 3 to 7 years worth of project work and other design experience, particularly in a consulting environment.
• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s Degree, or equivalent boot camp experience in a design-related field
• A portfolio that best demonstrates a solid understanding of the latest UI design standards and processes, as well as the soft skills required to work well on a team.

Responsibilities

• Highly self-driven and strategic thinker able to deliver and inspire top quality work from both yourself and others who work with you
• Both colleagues and clients will look to you to set the bar for quality and innovation
• Fluent in multiple AI enabled tools to aid your creative process from research and prototyping to delivering finished experiences
• Creating UI comps of screens (web software, e-commerce sites, mobile apps) informed by modern and industry-appropriate design trends
• Overseeing the design of UI style guides and design systems – either from scratch for from existing brand guidelines - with a distinct point of view on how things should look and why
• Collaborating with PMs, clients, and other members of the team to understand user needs, business goals and other key requirements
• Ensuring developers have what they need to understand the design intention and overseeing design QA during the development phase
• Actively collaborate with other designers on a project
• Learn new skills and stay abreast of technical and digital design developments and successfully apply these to work practices to help improve processes and procedures
• Effectively prioritizing and executing tasks in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

• Medical, Life, Dental/Vision, and many more insurance types
• Employer 401k match - 4%
• Regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work
• Office snacks and drinks + a fancy Bevi water machine with flavored water
• A recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball
• An office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees