Overview

Good people, working with good people, for our common good.

Sound good?

KeHE-a natural, organic, specialty and fresh food distributor-is all about "good" and is growing, so there's never been a more exciting time to join our team. If you're enthusiastic about working in an environment with a people-first culture and an organization committed to good living, good food and good service, we'd love to talk to you!

The food industry is ripe for innovation and KeHE is leading the way by delivering high quality digital solutions that are transforming the industry. KeHE is a natural, organic, and fresh food distributor where innovation, teamwork and collaboration reign. We build digital products, but it's our commitment to people that makes KeHE a great place to work. If you are looking for opportunities to grow and work with passionate and creative people, we'd love for you to join our Digital Product Development Team!

Benefits & Perks

• Fun environment where work-life balance is valued
• Opportunities for advancement
• Continued learning and development stipend
• Competitive salary
• Employee-owned company
• Competitive benefits package

Primary Responsibilities

The UX/UI Designer partners with our engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to practice high-level research strategy across multiple product teams while guiding the execution to align with KeHE's vision. With help from the design team, you will support and champion the process for developing a cohesive experience across applications by maintaining a living style guide and pattern library. As an integral part of the product development team, a UI/UX Designer works with product teams to ensure teams are delivering a customer-focused experience that drives business outcome by advocating UX methodologies and techniques.

Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the UX/UI Designer facilitates design thinking workshops, creates and carries out research plans, and designs interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member enables the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively.

Essential Functions

• Design elegant, thoughtful solutions for complex workflows through the use of type, hierarchy, interactions, and design patterns.
• Assure design quality by collaborating closely with design team, developers, product owners, and business analysts to write clear and detailed specs.
• Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams.
• Keep up with evolving design trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Contribute visual styles to KeHE's design system; maintain and update our pattern library, living style guide and sketch component library.
• Conduct user and competitive research.
• Facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements.
• Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, UI specifications & requirements, prototypes/wireframes.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Developers to define and translate business and functional requirements into user-friendly and technically optimal/feasible designs.
• Design and conduct usability studies to ensure designs are intuitive and easy-to-use.
• Demonstrate UI/UX best practices in product teams.
• Stay current with UX, visual design, and front-end technologies.

Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude

• Bachelor's degree in Design (Graphic, Interaction, Visual, and Digital), Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Architecture, Marketing, or related UX field.
• 5+ years of UI Design for web, mobile, and application design and/or UX strategy.
• Strong technical proficiency with design tools such as InVision, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite.
• Scrum and Kanban experience a plus.
• Portfolio of work is required.

Additional Skills / Aptitude:

• Design thinking mentality.
• Experience with lean UX and just in time design cycles.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Familiarity with current front-end web technologies, native interface guidelines, web services, and APIs.
• Ability to estimate efforts, prioritize tasks and goals, and rapidly produce deliverables in a fast-paced iterative environment.
• Flexible and able to handle a variety of assignments in various stages at the same time.
• Creative problem solving - not just solving problems but developing multiple solutions.
• Acts with empathy and curiosity; listens and seeks to understand.
• Passionate mindset with positive intent.
• ZERO ego. Collaborative team environment and must be able to work well with others.

Requisition ID

2022-18137

Equal Employer Opportunity Statement

KeHE Distributors provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or faith, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training as well as the administration of all Human Resources and Talent Acquisition processes.