Top Design Jobs in Chicago, IL

Lead product experience strategy for Adyen’s Unified Platform, partnering with Product, Engineering, and senior leadership. Manage and coach a team of four full-stack product experience professionals while remaining hands-on in research, design, and content. Shape intuitive financial data, reporting, billing, reconciliation, accounting, identity, risk, and AI-assisted experiences that support customer needs and business goals.

Creates high-fidelity visual designs, wireframes, journey maps, prototypes, and front-end annotations for omnichannel customer experiences. Supports user research, applies user-centered design practices, partners with engineers on implementation, and contributes to service design, ecosystem mapping, and service blueprints. Requires attention to accessibility, brand standards, and design systems, with occasional support for urgent IT incidents.

Develops and executes brand creative across digital, social, print, packaging, email, and partnership applications. Directs photoshoots and social productions, establishes visual direction, manages imagery and retouching, and builds scalable design systems and toolkits. Collaborates with marketing, product, creative, agencies, and stakeholders to deliver cohesive work. Presents design rationale, maintains brand standards, and manages multiple projects with strong quality control.

Lead UX strategy and execution for Search and Guidance on Grainger.com. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, ML, Analytics, and Merchandising to design scalable, accessible search and discovery experiences. Conduct research and usability testing, deliver high-fidelity designs and prototypes, evolve the design system, and communicate design rationale to stakeholders to improve discoverability and conversion.

Designs and leads content strategy for Expedia and Insurance product experiences, including onboarding, education, transactional flows, notifications, and loyalty journeys. Responsibilities include UX writing, information architecture, content modeling, research-driven testing, analytics, accessibility, localization, content audits, and stakeholder facilitation. The role influences cross-functional teams to create scalable, inclusive, customer-focused experiences and explores AI technologies to improve content strategy and efficiency.

Lead mixed-methods design research across quantitative and qualitative domains to inform product, service, and experience decisions. Plan studies, design statistically sound research, conduct interviews and surveys, analyze findings, and translate insights into actionable recommendations. Facilitate workshops, communicate results through storytelling and visualization, represent member needs, and partner with product, UX, marketing, operations, and leadership teams. Help mature the organization’s design research practice through improved methods, standards, tools, templates, and governance.

Conduct qualitative and quantitative UX research, including concept studies, diary studies, usability tests, and surveys. Develop research plans, discussion guides, reports, and video highlights; synthesize findings into actionable insights for design, product, and engineering teams. Collaborate with senior researchers, coordinate participant recruitment and logistics, and conduct occasional on-site B2B customer research in the Chicago area or elsewhere domestically.

Lead UX/UI design for mobile games: create flows, wireframes, Figma prototypes, design systems, visual assets, and Unity implementations. Conduct research and testing, collaborate with art and engineering, mentor UX staff, and own UX across multiple feature pods to deliver engaging, usable game experiences.

Leads product design initiatives for Retirement & Wealth digital products from discovery through delivery. Conducts user research and usability testing, creates wireframes, flows, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs, and partners with Product, Engineering, Content, QA, and business stakeholders. Maintains scalable design systems, component libraries, and Storybook documentation while improving design-to-development workflows. Uses AI-assisted tools responsibly to accelerate ideation and execution, influences product direction, and advocates for consistent, user-centered experiences.

Create motion graphics and visual designs for digital, social, video, and brand marketing campaigns. Translate creative briefs into style frames, storyboards, animations, and final executions. Manage the full production pipeline, including asset preparation, compositing, rendering, optimization, and delivery. Build motion systems, incorporate generative AI tools, collaborate with creative teams, and maintain brand consistency across multiple formats while managing competing projects.