UX Lead (Remote/Arlington Heights)

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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.  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.   
  • What we offer:
  • Annual training allowance, a license for Pluralsight, and a subscription to Code School. 
  • Vast market opportunity – which means more growth and opportunity
  • Lean enabling process that focuses on putting our UX professionals in a position to succeed
  • Flexible work schedule (work from home 2 days a week or remote if out of state)  


During the last release, 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. 


  • 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.


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Our office has modern workspaces, a cafe, and a gym. But since we're a talent-anywhere company, you may find our team members all over Chicagoland.

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