UX/UI Designer
Chicago, IL
Date Posted:14-May-2026
Work Type:On-Site
Job Number:485233
Job Description
Title : UX/UI Designer
Duration: 5 Months with possibility of extension
Location: Chicago, IL 60604 - Onsite 3 days per week: Mon-Wed + 1 flex
Project Overview/Contractor’s Role:
We are seeking a UX/UI Designer to join our Digital Product Management team within Marketing, supporting the design and optimization of our public?facing website and digital marketing experiences. In this role, you will focus on creating intuitive, accessible, and high?performing experiences for external audiences, with an emphasis on content clarity, conversion, SEO?informed design, and scalable delivery
You will partner closely with Technology, Web Experience Management, Digital Strategy and Creative teams to translate business goals, user needs, brand standards, and platform capabilities into effective digital journeys. This role is ideal for a designer who understands how UX, brand expression, marketing performance, and product delivery intersect in a complex, enterprise environment.
Experience Level: 3 - Senior
Required Qualifications:
3–5 years of professional experience in UX/UI or digital product design
Strong portfolio demonstrating public?facing, marketing, or content?rich website experience
Proven ability to design for content hierarchy, navigation systems, and conversion flows
Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or equivalent
Solid understanding of user?centered design, information architecture, and interaction design
Experience working in a product?led, cross?functional environment
Demonstrated experience applying accessibility standards and ADA requirements (e.g., WCAG 2.1 AA) in web/digital product design
Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions
Daily Tasks & Responsibilities:
Web Experience & Marketing UX Design
Design user?centered experiences for public?facing website pages, templates, and conversion flows
Create user journeys, site flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high?fidelity UI designs that support content discovery and decision?making
Define and refine content hierarchy, navigation, and page structure to improve clarity, usability, and SEO performance
Produce development?ready designs that balance brand expression, usability, performance, and platform constraints
Conversion, SEO & Optimization
Design experiences that support engagement, lead generation, and conversion goals
Partner with Digital Strategy, Marketing, and Analytics teams to incorporate performance data and user behavior insights into design decisions
Iterate designs to improve scannability, clarity, accessibility, and calls?to?action
Apply UX best practices that support discoverability, trust, and confidence for site visitors
Research & Validation
Conduct usability testing, user interviews, and design validation for external audiences
Translate qualitative feedback and quantitative insights into actionable design improvements
Apply user?centered design principles to reduce friction across key public?facing journeys
Product?Led & Cross?Functional Collaboration
Work closely with Product Managers to align designs to product goals, roadmaps, and prioritization
Partner with Technology and Web Experience Management teams to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and implemented as intended
Collaborate with Content, SEO, Digital Strategy, Marketing, and Creative partners to deliver cohesive experiences
Partner with Creative team to ensure designs align with brand standards, visual identity, and design system guidelines
Participate in cross?functional working sessions, design critiques, and delivery reviews
Quality, Accessibility & Consistency
Apply established design system standards, brand guidelines, and UX best practices
Ensure designs meet accessibility standards (WCAG) and ADA compliance expectations; partner on accessibility reviews/testing and remediation
Advocate for usability, clarity, accessibility, and brand consistency across all public?facing digital experiences
Why Join Us
Join a Digital Product Management team within Marketing, shaping how the organization shows up publicly
Work on high?visibility, public?facing digital experiences used by a broad external audience
Collaborate closely with Technology, Web Experience Management, Digital Strategy, and Creative teams
Make a measurable impact on engagement, usability, accessibility, conversion, and brand consistency
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience designing enterprise or regulated?industry websites (e.g., financial services)
Familiarity with SEO best practices and how UX supports discoverability and performance
Experience working with or contributing to a design system
Working knowledge of CMS?driven, template?based websites
Basic understanding of front?end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Duration: 5 Months with possibility of extension
Location: Chicago, IL 60604 - Onsite 3 days per week: Mon-Wed + 1 flex
Project Overview/Contractor’s Role:
We are seeking a UX/UI Designer to join our Digital Product Management team within Marketing, supporting the design and optimization of our public?facing website and digital marketing experiences. In this role, you will focus on creating intuitive, accessible, and high?performing experiences for external audiences, with an emphasis on content clarity, conversion, SEO?informed design, and scalable delivery
You will partner closely with Technology, Web Experience Management, Digital Strategy and Creative teams to translate business goals, user needs, brand standards, and platform capabilities into effective digital journeys. This role is ideal for a designer who understands how UX, brand expression, marketing performance, and product delivery intersect in a complex, enterprise environment.
Experience Level: 3 - Senior
Required Qualifications:
3–5 years of professional experience in UX/UI or digital product design
Strong portfolio demonstrating public?facing, marketing, or content?rich website experience
Proven ability to design for content hierarchy, navigation systems, and conversion flows
Proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, or equivalent
Solid understanding of user?centered design, information architecture, and interaction design
Experience working in a product?led, cross?functional environment
Demonstrated experience applying accessibility standards and ADA requirements (e.g., WCAG 2.1 AA) in web/digital product design
Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate design decisions
Daily Tasks & Responsibilities:
Web Experience & Marketing UX Design
Design user?centered experiences for public?facing website pages, templates, and conversion flows
Create user journeys, site flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high?fidelity UI designs that support content discovery and decision?making
Define and refine content hierarchy, navigation, and page structure to improve clarity, usability, and SEO performance
Produce development?ready designs that balance brand expression, usability, performance, and platform constraints
Conversion, SEO & Optimization
Design experiences that support engagement, lead generation, and conversion goals
Partner with Digital Strategy, Marketing, and Analytics teams to incorporate performance data and user behavior insights into design decisions
Iterate designs to improve scannability, clarity, accessibility, and calls?to?action
Apply UX best practices that support discoverability, trust, and confidence for site visitors
Research & Validation
Conduct usability testing, user interviews, and design validation for external audiences
Translate qualitative feedback and quantitative insights into actionable design improvements
Apply user?centered design principles to reduce friction across key public?facing journeys
Product?Led & Cross?Functional Collaboration
Work closely with Product Managers to align designs to product goals, roadmaps, and prioritization
Partner with Technology and Web Experience Management teams to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and implemented as intended
Collaborate with Content, SEO, Digital Strategy, Marketing, and Creative partners to deliver cohesive experiences
Partner with Creative team to ensure designs align with brand standards, visual identity, and design system guidelines
Participate in cross?functional working sessions, design critiques, and delivery reviews
Quality, Accessibility & Consistency
Apply established design system standards, brand guidelines, and UX best practices
Ensure designs meet accessibility standards (WCAG) and ADA compliance expectations; partner on accessibility reviews/testing and remediation
Advocate for usability, clarity, accessibility, and brand consistency across all public?facing digital experiences
Why Join Us
Join a Digital Product Management team within Marketing, shaping how the organization shows up publicly
Work on high?visibility, public?facing digital experiences used by a broad external audience
Collaborate closely with Technology, Web Experience Management, Digital Strategy, and Creative teams
Make a measurable impact on engagement, usability, accessibility, conversion, and brand consistency
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience designing enterprise or regulated?industry websites (e.g., financial services)
Familiarity with SEO best practices and how UX supports discoverability and performance
Experience working with or contributing to a design system
Working knowledge of CMS?driven, template?based websites
Basic understanding of front?end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position's starting pay is: $77.00/hr.