Delivering one-of-a-kind cloud technology, accompanied by award winning customer service, Paylocity is a software development company in a category of its own.  We are a publicly traded company that offers an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP) which enables employees to share in the long-term growth and future success of the company.

Poised to revolutionize the world of human capital management for hundreds of thousands of small and medium sized businesses, we are seeking the best and the brightest to help us create the future of our talent solutions – enabling our customers to better develop their employees and supervisors. 

Our lean development process enables our small product oriented teams to innovate, collaborate and bring amazing features to market. Our talent anywhere philosophy nurtures a diverse and dynamic group of colleagues with a shared mission to make great products and have fun doing it. 

Are you the teammate we are looking for?

Who you are:

• Enthusiastic about user experience design, development, and architecture for the best software available and providing the ultimate customer experience

• A leader in continuous improvement of our user experience process

• Interested in staying current with latest UX best practices

• Able to work in a collaborative environment with a willingness to share your ideas

• Able to take the lead on multiple experiences across a product category and collaborate on tasks to ship with high quality, but unafraid to seek out suggestions from team members

• Excited to work on cutting-edge user interface technology and user experience practices!

• Desires to be a “Player/Coach” in all aspects of the process

How we work:

• Small, self-sufficient product-oriented teams with an entrepreneurial spirit organized into categories.  

• Dedicated IT Operations experts committed to cutting-edge infrastructure and developer tools.

• We don’t add more folks to our teams, we add additional teams to scale.

• Casual, collaborative, agile environment which embraces and operates under our shared principles.  

• Complete transparency with open, honest discussions about our progress. 

• Close working relationship between executive stakeholders and product teams.

What we offer:

• Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our product teams in the best position to succeed.

• A commitment to investing in our products, hiring the best talent, and giving them. 

• The chance to meaningfully contribute to a vast market opportunity.

• Annual training allowance plus a subscription to Pluralsight for all technology colleagues.

Requirements

• Ownership of UX best practices around design, development, and architecture. 

• Must have impeccable attention to detail within design production.

• Strong understanding of browser/device capabilities and limitations.

• Understanding and practice with Responsive Web Development techniques.

• Knowledge of progressive enhancement techniques.

• Ability to write and understand semantic and well-formed HTML5.

• Provide front-end development expertise to support peer developers.

• Ability to follow and add to a pattern library or style guide.

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Design, Human Computer Interaction, a related field or equivalent experience

• Must have at least 5-7 years of hands-on experience creating engaging, multi-platform user experiences that follow a unified design language

• Focused on enriching the end-user’s experience through a collaborative creative process

• A master at using common UX tools such as Sketch, InVision and front-end development

• Working with Lean UX principles that help agile product teams succeed

• Familiar with Atomic design principles.

• Portfolio of previous work

• Experience integrating client-side code into a variety of templating languages and CMSes

.• Experience with preprocessors - SCSS, LESS.

• Familiarity with different CSS methodologies - OOCSS, BEM, SMACSS.

• Familiarity with JavaScript Frameworks - AngularJS, Ember.js.

During the last three months, you would have:

• Oversaw the design, development and architecture for a product category

• Ensured simple, consistent, and impeccable product work was delivered

• Design, developed and contributed to some of the most important UX work happening in the product category

• Lead the planning and contribution to Core UX Patterns 

• Lead defining a consistent visual language that contributed to the Core UX Pattern library in code and design.

• Created innovative design & development solutions that revolutionized our user-experiences

• Enjoyed a team atmosphere that extends beyond the walls of the office—including activities like UX conferences, dinners, and go-karting. 

Paylocity’s Awards:

• Glassdoor's Employees Choice Award in 2014

• 7-time Winner on Chicago Area's 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For

• Inc Magazine listed Paylocity as an Inc 5000 Fastest Growing Privately Held Firm from 2007-2013

• Ranked #14 on Built in Chicago Top 100 Digital Companies for 2014

• Ranked #24 on Forbes 2013 List of Top 100 Digital Companies in Chicago 

• Ranked #38 on Crain's Fast Fifty List of Chicago's Fastest Growing Companies in 2014

• Ranked #334 on Deloitte's 2014 Technology Fast 500 List of Fastest Growing Companies in North America