Senior UX/UI Designer (Gordon Food Service)

Senior UX/UI Designer (Gordon Food Service)

Chicago | Full Time 

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Gordon Food Service is looking to add a Senior UX/UI Designer to their growing UX/UI team, based out of their Chicago-based design and innovation studio called Relish Works.

About the role:

Senior UX/UI Designers lead UX/UI design on Gordon Food Service digital products (e.g. ecommerce, ordering app, etc). They are advocates for users and customers in the product development process through strong design skills and demonstrated leadership ability. 

• GFS senior designers are product design experts. They have deep design knowledge and experience and demonstrate proficiency in multiple areas across the design discipline – including UX research, wireframes, low- and high-fidelity visual design, animation, prototyping, design systems, accessibility, design documentation, and user testing. They are deeply knowledgeable about the ever-changing UX industry, keep up-to-date on UX design best practices, and advise the digital leadership team on tools and practices as appropriate. Above all, they lead teams that deliver quality work using knowledge of user experience (UX) principles and user interface (UI) designs. 
• GFS senior designers are project leaders. They are organized, self-motivated and navigate ambiguity well. They will work side-by-side with customers and research partners to understand customer behavior, and with business leaders, Product Owners, and IT teams to understand business and technical goals, balancing these to deliver work that wins for all. Our senior designers are capable time managers who can estimate work and manage roadmaps. They align on goals and anti-goals with product and IT teams through daily discussion, and lead them in activities like workshops and design thinking. They ensure that the team’s output is organized and well-documented. They understand the big picture and ensure consistent experiences for users across products. 
• GFS senior designers support the growth of their team members through mentorship and coaching. They support their team through design reviews and constructive feedback, and they contribute to team culture of mutual success and support. They collaborate with fellow designers across Gordon Food Service and Relish Works to advance and evolve the discipline and quality of product design work across the enterprise. 

Essential Functions: 

• Design & review optimal user interactions for new and existing products and services, websites, and marketing assets collaborating with other UX/UI designers, product, marketing, SMEs, stakeholders and IT
• Create, deliver, review, and curate wireframes, interaction outlines, mockups/storyboards, and interactive prototypes to communicate the experience design to stakeholders
• Ensures timely delivery of reviewed mockups, assets, and customer validation to IT to implement the design directly
• Lead workshops & design thinking activities to inform product managers, owners, and stakeholders how user goals align or conflict with business goals
• Govern existing products and services experience design to ensure they adhere to GFS accessibility and design standards
• Lead project estimation and work plan definition for UX design and research tasks
• Provide constructive feedback on the approach, deliverables, and presentations for the associate and UX/UI designers
• Performs other duties as assigned

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities: 

• Manages the workload and work assignments of other UX project team members and contractors while staying conscientious of individuals’ strengths, weaknesses, and goals and playing to these when managing work assignments
• Ability to collaborate with development and/or product leads and business leaders on scope and definition
• Works effectively with the other leads on a project (product, dev, etc) to lead collaboratively
• Expertise in deconstructing complex problems and turning them into engaging and streamlined customer experiences that are mutually beneficial for the business & customer on any digital device or multi-screen journey
• Extensive experience using UX design best practices and advanced UX topics (affordance, touch ergonomics, cognitive load, ethnography, etc.) to design solutions, and deep understanding of mobile-first, responsive design
• Ability to communicate and present the user journey via slides or prototype to gain alignment on an approach
• Proactively seeks ample feedback naturally to inform the design ensuring awareness & alignment
• Champion of collaboratio