Senior UX/UI Designer-Digital eCommerce

Responsibilities

• Create the highest quality UI designs
• Coach proper design practices
• Advocate for design throughout the process
• Contribute to the eCommerce strategy and roadmap
• Advocate for user centered design through partnership with the UX research team
• Envision and execute user experience improvements
• Conceptualize and communicate design ideas to stakeholders of all levels within an organization
• Create wireframes, user flows, visual design assets, and interactive prototypes/high fidelity mockups
• Build the cross-functional community by planning and facilitating regular share-outs, Q&As, and Design workshops
• Partner with UX research to maintain an aligned understanding of the current-state user experience, while continuously discovering opportunities to improve it
• Familiarity with design sprints and the agile methodology
• Actively and constantly collaborate with other employees including product owners, other designers, web and mobile engineers, quality-assurance engineers, leadership, and more
• Functions as enabler for individuals, who may or may not have worked together before, to solve a business problem or create critical experience(s)
• Pull input from the whole team to formulate decisions and develop the output for the job/project
• Provide a supportive work environment for the team
• Mentor, coach, and develop others
• Manage one's own development
• Interact with people from diverse technical and cultural backgrounds
• Work within the team and beyond the team with contractors, hourly, salaried and management employees, suppliers, customers, and individuals working in many Caterpillar organizations
• Decisions may affect the job/project team, the division or business unit, suppliers, both internal and external customers, and the market
• Decisions may impact the entire product, process or factory, warranty, sales, and customers' perceptions, and can cause an evolutionary change in the customer experience

Skills

• Must have strong experience delivering strategic digital experiences across various digital channels
• Understanding of overall customer needs and ability to have a holistic view of design and user experience; ability to deliver on short-term needs that fit into long-term vision
• Creativity: Knowledge of the approaches, tools, and techniques for promoting creative, original thinking and ability to apply it to a variety of business situations
• Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment
• Computer Software Industry: Knowledge of computer software industry; ability to understand future products, vendors, technologies, issues, and trends and directions
• Web Software Design: Knowledge of web software design; ability to design, develop, maintain and enhance web-based or web-enabled software
• Human-Centered Design (HCD): Knowledge of Human-Centered Design model, principle, and concepts; ability to understand the perspective of people who experience a problem, their needs, and provide them with a solution which truly meets their needs effectively
• User Experience Design: Knowledge of user experience design tools, techniques and approaches; ability to design applications that are valued, positively perceived and used by clients
• User Interface Design: Knowledge of activities, practices, deliverables and considerations; ability to design effective graphic user interfaces for delivery of information to the client's desktop workstation
• Web Trends & Directions: Knowledge of web trends; ability to utilize a variety of web information and technical tools to apply web developing trends within the organizational infrastructure

Benefits

• 💼 Working with a Fortune 100 leader, you can build your career on a global scale and take advantage of development opportunities with emerging technologies
• 💰 $108,360.00 - $176,040.00
• 💼 Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience
• 💰 Annual incentive bonus plan*
• 💊 Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 🏖️ Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holiday, Volunteer, Etc.)
• 💰 401k savings plan
• 💊 Health savings account (HSA)
• 💳 Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
• 💼 Disability benefits
• 💼 Life Insurance
• 👩‍👧 Parental leave
• 🏋️ Healthy Lifestyle Programs
• 🤝 Employee Assistance Programs
• 💸 Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts
• 📚 Tuition Reimbursement
• 📈 Career Development
• 💼 Subject to annual eligibility and incentive plan guidelines

Salary

$108,360.00 - $176,040.00 yearly

Location

Chicago, IL

Company

Caterpillar

Application

• Company Website: Caterpillar
• Application Type: url
• Application URL: Built In Chicago

Additional Information

• Posted: 2 days ago
• Schedule: Full-time

Job Details

• Category ID: 1938
• Term ID: 1648
• Plan ID: 1027