Codal’s design team is searching for a supremely creative Senior UI Designer for our Chicago office. As a designer with a background in web applications, e-commerce sites and/or mobile apps, our ideal candidate uses informed intuition to create a compelling and useful user interfaces that also achieve our client’s objectives

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Primary Responsibilities & Duties

• Highly self-driven and strategic thinker able to deliver and inspire top quality work from both yourself and others who work with you
• Both colleagues and clients will look to you to set the bar for quality and innovation
• Fluent in multiple AI enabled tools to aid your creative process from research and prototyping to delivering finished experiences
• Creating UI comps of screens (web software, e-commerce sites, mobile apps) informed by modern and industry-appropriate design trends 
• Overseeing the design of UI style guides and design systems – either from scratch for from existing brand guidelines - with a distinct point of view on how things should look and why 
• Collaborating with PMs, clients, and other members of the team to understand user needs, business goals and other key requirements
• Ensuring developers have what they need to understand the design intention and overseeing design QA during the development phase 
• Actively collaborate with other designers on a project 
• Learn new skills and stay abreast of technical and digital design developments and successfully apply these to work practices to help improve processes and procedures
• Effectively prioritizing and executing tasks in a fast-paced environment

 

Qualifications

• An understanding of key design principles such as typography, illustration, imagery, content, and composition, and excel in wielding them in a web design application.
• 3 to 7 years worth of project work and other design experience, particularly in a consulting environment. 
• Bachelor’s degree, Master’s Degree, or equivalent boot camp experience in a design-related field
• A portfolio that best demonstrates a solid understanding of the latest UI design standards and processes, as well as the soft skills required to work well on a team. Applicants will have an opportunity to walk through a portfolio piece as part of our interview process. 

 

Need another reason to hit the “apply” button? 

• Codal is a global agency with over 200 employees, and offices in the US, Canada, the UK, and India 
• We offer Medical, Life, Dental/Vision, and many more insurance types 
• Employer 401k match - 4%
• Working hybrid for in-person collaboration and sprint-planning days
• We regularly host happy hours, dinners, excursions, and other company events to unwind after a hard day at work
• Office snacks and drinks + a fancy Bevi water machine with flavored water 
• A recreational group that regularly competes in city leagues for softball and volleyball 
• An office in the heart of downtown Chicago with a gym, food court, Walgreens, rooftop bar, outdoor sports court, and other amenities

About the Codal Design Team
As a member of the Codal design team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow designers on a project and learn from each other. Our sprint-based approach to project work is designed to give designers time to think and explore new ideas while still delivering consistently for our clients. We also value work-life balance and a 40-hour work week. Moreover, we empower our designers to seek training and development opportunities, as well as define the way we work. Giving you a voice and a support structure to grow is how we turn good designers into great ones.