Position: Senior User Experience Designer

Location: Chicago Loop

About Raise

Raise started with a simple idea—that people don’t dream about saving money, they save money to realize their dreams. An infectious and powerful concept, Raise offers the opportunity for everyone to live a life of more.

Our marketplace gives consumers the chance to unlock the value in their gift cards. Members can sell their unwanted gift cards for cash and buy gift cards to save at their favorite stores. We help put purchase power back into the hands of consumers, and that’s what giving yourself a raise is all about.

Recently named by Forbes as one of Chicago’s next billion­-dollar startups, we are well on our way to changing the retail marketplace forever. Join us on our mission to make money worth more.

About The Position

Raise is looking for a Senior user-experience designer to help build our UX practice. If you are someone who understands how to navigate the intersection of product ux and engineering, have a passion for creating exceptional user experiences, and understand e-commerce and responsive web design this could be the perfect place for you.

As a Senior User Experience Designer you will help define what user experience is at Raise. The Senior UX Designer will collaborate with product managers, business stakeholders and developers to deliver insights and designs that shape the future direction of Raise products, services and policies. They will be a fearless self-starter with a can-do attitude that has the ability to take on larger scale strategic initiatives as well as smaller more tactical challenges, this position will report to the Director of UX.

Responsibilities

• Work with product managers, engineers and business stakeholders to researching and advocating for the end-user


• Create wireframes, mockups, and prototypes to test new product and/or feature ideas on behalf of the broader product team


• Embrace flexibility by jumping in where help is needed, taking the reigns and displaying ownership over the projects you contribute to


• A strong understanding of responsive web design (RWD) and the development and production processes surrounding RWD.


• Demonstrate an ability to clearly understand an end user’s perspective and provide design recommendations accordingly, creating task flows, wireframes,navigation patterns, information architecture, concept diagrams, user journeys, and any other design artifacts


• Turn ideas into presentable concepts and translate those concepts into design recommendations that achieve simplicity, despite the inherent complexity of processes being supported


• Produce standardized, best-in-class UX deliverables including user interfaces with sitemaps, paper prototypes, wireframes, and screen mockups as needed


• Work across various lifecycle stages, from initial definition to continuous enhancement


• Create ideas that modify


• Ensure all UI definition and development is consistent with usability standards, best practices, and strategy


 

Skills & Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in UX & Visual Design for business or enterprise applications, including designing for web and mobile


• Formal degree in Design, Fine Arts, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors (CUA™), or related field, or equivalent work experience


• Strong portfolio featuring design work that showcases information architecture, interaction design, information design, visual design, and mobile design skills


• An undeniable passion for creating great user interfaces that solve real user problems


• Solid understanding of user-centered design principles, careful attention to detail, and ability to grasp complex, nuanced product requirements


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, especially the ability to clearly articulate design decisions with stakeholders and development teams, and keep UX and project team leads up to date


• Experience working with cross-functional teams (including UX, business consulting, product management, technology and engineering)


• Exposure to basic user research techniques such as contextual inquiry, user interviews, usability testing, as well as a solid understanding of how to incorporate insights from user research into the user interface design process


• Excellent knowledge of design tools like Sketch, Adobe creative suite, Axure, etc. and the ability to quickly create working prototypes in HTML or other tools is a big plus.


 

Perks:

• Comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, vision, 401K, disability and life insurance


• Minimum 15 days PTO


• Eight weeks maternity leave and two weeks paternity leave


• $5,000 adoption credit and six weeks leave for adoption family bonding


• Breakfast and healthy snacks provided every day


• Raise branded t-shirts, bag, water bottle, winter jacket and stocking hat


• Pool, ping-pong, and foosball competitions


 

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