Interaction Designer

Responsibilities:

• This position requires working in CST time and occasional travel for workshops or project-specific needs
• Visualize ideas using professional design tools, sticky notes, sketch boards, or whiteboards to rapidly iterate through ideation stages
• Initiate and respond to ideas for innovation and improvements based on research, analysis, and competitive reviews
• Identify user needs and business requirements to inform design decisions
• Ensure digital customer touchpoints align with user experience and brand standards
• Develop intuitive, usable, and engaging interactions for digital products
• Drive the design of navigation schemes, patterns, components, and templates to ensure a consistent and dynamic customer experience
• Create low and high-fidelity interactive prototypes using a rapid, iterative, and collaborative process
• Collaborate with usability researchers to design test plans and iterate designs based on user testing findings
• Create detailed design specifications, including process flows, wireframes, storyboards, mockups, and prototypes
• Present design work to teams and executives for review and feedback
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders throughout the design process
• Respond to day-to-day questions from developers, product managers, and project managers during implementation
• Work with QA to identify, document, and verify bug fixes
• Provide guidance and mentorship to junior designers

Skills:

• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience required
• 5+ years of professional UX design experience required; 8+ years preferred
• Solid grasp of web design principles and a good understanding of front-end web technologies
• Excellent understanding of user experience design for web, mobile, and touch devices
• Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity
• Proficiency in Figma and other related design software
• Strong communication skills and experience working in multidisciplinary, collaborative teams
• Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and accomplish multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
• Experience writing detailed design specifications for developers
• Self-starter with the ability to define scope and schedules even with unclear requirements
• Proven ability to set design direction and collaborate with other designers

Benefits:

• 💼 Pay any fee to be considered for, submitted to, or selected for any opportunity
• 🎁 Purchase any product, service, or gift cards from us or for us as part of an application, interview, or selection process
• 💰 Pay Range: $60-75/ HR
• The specific compensation for this position will be determined by several factors, including the scope, complexity, and location of the role, as well as the cost of labor in the market; the skills, education, training, credentials, and experience of the candidate; and other conditions of employment
• Our full-time consultants have access to benefits, including medical, dental, vision, and 401K contributions, as well as PTO, sick leave, and other benefits mandated by applicable state or localities where you reside or work

Qualifications:

• This role is ideal for someone who excels in prototyping and interaction design or has strong experience as a production designer for dashboard-heavy, account management, and report-heavy platforms
• The successful candidate will contribute to enhancing the digital customer experience and will work in a hybrid model, with occasional in-office requirements in Chicago or Houston
• BA/BS degree or equivalent work experience required
• Solid grasp of web design principles and a good understanding of front-end web technologies
• Excellent understanding of user experience design for web, mobile, and touch devices
• Experience designing for accessibility and inclusivity
• Proficiency in Figma and other related design software
• Strong communication skills and experience working in multidisciplinary, collaborative teams
• Ability to coordinate, prioritize, and accomplish multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment with minimal supervision
• Experience writing detailed design specifications for developers
• Self-starter with the ability to define scope and schedules even with unclear requirements
• Proven ability to set design direction and collaborate with other designers

Company:

Pinnacle Group