Design polished, responsive web experiences spanning UX/UI, digital merchandising, marketing, and acquisition. Create high-fidelity designs and reusable Figma components, evolve visual language and dark-mode systems, prepare assets in Photoshop, and collaborate with developers to ensure accessible, feasible implementation. Manage assignments from concept through delivery while incorporating feedback and meeting deadlines. Preferred experience includes motion design, prototyping, e-commerce, conversion-focused design, and emerging AI creative tools.
Group O is seeking a Digital Experience Designer to support digital design for business. This hands-on contract opportunity combines exceptional visual design, digital merchandising, visual storytelling, and practical UX/UI execution. The designer will elevate customer-facing responsive web experiences, bring fresh creative thinking to established B2B content, and contribute to the evolution of digital visual language and a sophisticated dark-mode design system. The ideal candidate brings strong visual instincts, technical craft, curiosity, and the ability to deliver polished work in a collaborative, fast-moving environment.
Key Responsibilities
Essential Functions:
- Design visually compelling, intuitive merchandising, marketing, and acquisition experiences across responsive web platforms.
- Apply sophisticated typography, imagery, composition, color, spacing, visual hierarchy, and interaction design to communicate complex offerings clearly.
- Translate business objectives into distinctive, premium digital experiences; explore creative approaches that elevate conventional B2B content.
- Contribute to the evolution of the Business visual language, including new layouts, treatments, patterns, and the transition toward dark mode while maintaining brand consistency.
- Produce high-fidelity, production-ready designs, responsive layouts, and web assets; use Adobe Photoshop for image editing, compositing, and asset preparation.
- Create and extend reusable Figma components using variants, component properties, variables, and Auto Layout within an established design system.
- Collaborate with developers and cross-functional partners to preserve visual quality through implementation; balance creative ambition with usability, accessibility, feasibility, and business needs.
- Own design assignments from concept through delivery, incorporate feedback, and maintain quality under tight deadlines.
Secondary Functions:
- Explore emerging visual design approaches, contemporary digital experiences, and interaction patterns that inspire fresh creative solutions.
- Where relevant, apply motion design, animation, interactive prototyping, conversion insights, or AI-powered creative tools to improve exploration and production efficiency.
Position type:
- Contract assignment: 6–12 months, with potential for extension.
Expected hours of work:
- Normal work week hours. Fully remote. Company-provided hardware.
Travel:
- Fully remote; no regular travel requirement specified.
Job Qualifications
Education/Certifications:
- College degree or equivalent. A strong portfolio demonstrating visual and technical design craft is required.
Experience:
- Target experience range: 0–6 years. Candidates should demonstrate relevant work through a portfolio, including polished responsive web experiences for commerce, marketing, merchandising, or digital products. Quality of work and demonstrated capability are central to evaluation.
Skills and Qualifications:
- Portfolio demonstrates exceptional contemporary digital visual design, creative thinking, and attention to detail.
- Strong command of typography, composition, color, imagery, spacing, and visual hierarchy.
- Solid UX/UI, interaction design, usability, responsive web, and accessibility fundamentals.
- Advanced Figma proficiency with component architecture, properties, variants, variables, and Auto Layout; experience extending established design systems.
- Adobe Photoshop proficiency, including image editing, compositing, and production-ready asset creation.
- Ability to independently manage assignments, solve creative problems, collaborate across functions, and meet deadlines.
- Preferred Art direction, visual storytelling, digital brand experiences, motion design, animation, or interactive prototyping.
- Preferred E-commerce, acquisition, merchandising, or conversion-focused design.
- Preferred Dark-mode interface design or contributions to visual design systems.
- Familiarity with Adobe Firefly, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Figma AI, or other emerging creative tools.
Portfolio Requirements:
- A portfolio is required and will be a key part of evaluation. It should demonstrate (1) visual excellence through typography, imagery, composition, and detail; (2) creative thinking and a distinctive perspective on familiar design challenges; (3) UX understanding through intuitive, accessible, effective experiences; and (4) technical craft translating sophisticated designs into scalable component-based systems.
Physical Requirements:
- N/A
Disclaimer: The above statements describe the general nature and level of work assigned to this role and are not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, or qualifications.
About
At Group O, it’s our employees who we value most. That’s why we provide a supportive environment where employees are given every opportunity to excel. Group O offers a wide variety of careers with room for professional growth and advancement, and we are always looking for motivated individuals to join our team. At Group O, our employees’ health and well-being is equally as important as the work they perform. We back up that philosophy by providing a competitive benefits package that supports now and for their future.In 1974, Bob Ontiveros saw an opportunity to live the American dream and build a company for himself and his family. 50 years later, the packaging company he originally founded out of the back of his station wagon - Group O is ranked by the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce as one of the top five Latino-owned businesses in the country. Group O has gained prestige for helping Fortune 500 companies like Samsung, Michelin, Caterpillar, and PepsiCo turn their most complex business challenges into centers of profitability and efficiency. Headquartered in Milan, IL, Group O employs over 1,200 employees.
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