Ux Designer Jobs in Chicago, USA

We’re transforming property tech!    Purchasing Platform Inc. is a next generation marketplace serving the property management sector. Leveraging our market knowledge and tech savvy, we revolutionize the procurement of products and services across the property management sector. By centralizing procurement, our software brings stronger corporate controls and greater spend visibility to portfolio operators of all sizes. About the Role   Purchasing Platform is seeking a UI/UX Designer, Marketplace to own end-to-end experience design for our B2B marketplace, with a focus on improving conversion and adoption across key journeys (add-to-cart, first purchase, second purchase, and ongoing feature usage). In this role, you’ll design and iterate on core buyer workflows across web and mobile, balancing strong visual execution with practical, user-centered UX grounded in e-commerce and marketplace best practices. You’ll create wireframes, prototypes, user flows, and high-fidelity mockups, then deliver production-ready specs to engineering with clear annotations and guidance. You’ll also lead efforts to improve navigation and information architecture, build and maintain design documentation (including a component library/style guide), and establish a repeatable review cadence to ensure high-quality design decisions and implementation fidelity. This is a highly cross-functional role partnering closely with product and engineering, using user feedback and behavioral data (analytics, session recordings, interviews) to identify gaps and bring recommendations forward for roadmap consideration.      

<p>At IMC, our trading tools are the environment traders and researchers live in all day. As a Lead UX Designer, you will help define how users understand the market, explore data, and make decisions in real time. This role combines deep workflow design with thoughtful, high quality user experience.</p> <p>IMC is making a significant reinvestment in its trading platform, rethinking core tools, workflows, and interaction patterns from the ground up. You will be on the ground floor of that effort, with real influence over how the platform evolves and how great UX shows up across the firm.</p> <p>You will work closely with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to design interfaces that are fast, intuitive, and well crafted. The goal is tools that feel natural under pressure, support complex decision making, and are genuinely good to use day after day.</p> <p><strong>Your Core Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Collaborate with traders, quantitative researchers, and engineers to design interfaces that support core trading behavior</li> <li>Develop a deep understanding of user needs, workflows, and day to day usage through research and observation</li> <li>Translate complex requirements into intuitive, coherent, and visually clear designs</li> <li>Design information-dense, high-reliability interfaces for expert power users, where speed, accuracy and clarity under pressure are critical</li> <li>Balance efficiency with usability and visual quality across critical workflows</li> <li>Lead the evolution of shared design systems and interaction patterns</li> <li>Advocate for user centered design and usability testing throughout the product lifecycle</li> <li>Partner with engineering to ensure designs are feasible, scalable, and well implemented</li> <li>Navigate conflicting feedback and propose thoughtful tradeoffs aligned with user and business goals</li> <li>Help define and drive a UX vision aligned with the platform’s future direction</li> </ul> <p><strong>Your Skills and Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience designing systems that are the central focus of a user’s entire day to day</li> <li>A strong portfolio demonstrating both interaction design and visual craft</li> <li>Experience working with complex or technical products in fast paced environments</li> <li>Strong intuition for designing tools used under time pressure</li> <li>Fluency in wireframing, prototyping, and communicating design intent</li> <li>Ability to collaborate deeply with engineers and understand implementation constraints</li> <li>Clear and effective communicator across disciplines</li> <li>Pragmatic mindset that values simplicity, consistency, and quality&

Senior UI/UX Designer Employment Type: Full-Time, Experienced Department: Information Technology CGS is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to join our team supporting a wide-ranging technical support initiative for a large Federal agency. CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities. Skills and attributes for success: -Lead full-scale UX design efforts to include research, blueprinting, and evaluating existing systems. -Manage the planning, design, and implementation of multiple sites and applications across multiple clients simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. -Lead all phases of user research and analysis needed to inform the creation of highly usable web pages, application interfaces, and other dynamic solutions. -Collaborate with federal practice engineers and federal clients to define, design, and implement innovative, beautiful, intuitive solutions for use by our federal customer and their stakeholders. -Create wireframes, storyboards, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas for websites and applications. -Create scalable design resources to aid in project collaboration and the expansion of ECS creative services. Qualifications:  -Bachelor's Degree. -Must be able to obtain a Public Trust. -Strong UX design experience. -10+ years combined professional design experience (UCD, UI/UX design). -Strong online portfolio that showcases the candidate’s ability to make research-driven decisions in the design of responsive web and mobile applications. -Results-oriented problem solver with high standards for quality, accuracy, attention to detail, and overall excellence. -Expertise in user research methodologies, user centered design principles and frameworks, and user interface design standards. -Advanced understanding of user personas, user flows, affinity mapping, and other research tools. -Strong understanding of the life cycle process of website development (discovery, planning, design, requirements, coding, testing, and user testing and evaluation). -Experience evaluating existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations. -Experience designing web and mobile applications that are compliant with 508 and US Web Design System (USWDS) standards. -Experience prioritizing features while accounting for user goals and business requirements. -Experience carrying designs from start to finish, from wireframes to delivery of final high-fidelity UI mockups. -Experience establishing and maintaining rapid customer feedback loops to inform design at critical stages. -Self-starter, motivated, confident and has ability to work independently as well as in a team environment. -Success on projects designed from scratch as well as redesigns for established platforms or products. -Experience mentoring/leading junior designers. -Advanced coding knowledge (HTML, CSS, and JS). -Advanced proficiency in Adobe xD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Ideally, you will also have: -Excellent interpersonal and client focused skills— interacts well with all levels of staff and partners with a positive and enthusiastic attitude. -Experience using Agile methodology to manage projects. -Experience creating and modifying data visualizations. -Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Our Commitment: Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human, technical, and financial resources. We combine cutting-edge technology with world-class personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our client’s specific needs. We are committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems. For the past seven years, we’ve been growing our government contracting portfolio, and along the way, we’ve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty, professionalism, and quality work. Here at CGS we value honesty through hard work and self-awareness, professionalism in all we do, and to deliver the best quality to our consumers mending those relations for years to come. We care about our employees. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. -Health, Dental, and Vision -Life Insurance -401k -Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter) -Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays Contact Government Services, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Join our team and become part of government innovation! Explore additional job opportunities with CGS on our Job Board: https://cgsfederal.com/join-our-team/ For more information about CGS please visit: https://www.cgsfederal.com or contact: Email: info@cgsfederal.com #CJ

Senior UI/UX Designer II Employment Type: Full-Time, Experienced Department: Information Technology CGS is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to join our team supporting a wide-ranging technical support initiative for a large Federal agency. CGS brings motivated, highly skilled, and creative people together to solve the government’s most dynamic problems with cutting-edge technology. To carry out our mission, we are seeking candidates who are excited to contribute to government innovation, appreciate collaboration, and can anticipate the needs of others. Here at CGS, we offer an environment in which our employees feel supported, and we encourage professional growth through various learning opportunities. Skills and attributes for success: -Lead full-scale UX design efforts to include research, blueprinting, and evaluating existing systems. -Manage the planning, design, and implementation of multiple sites and applications across multiple clients simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. -Lead all phases of user research and analysis needed to inform the creation of highly usable web pages, application interfaces, and other dynamic solutions. -Collaborate with federal practice engineers and federal clients to define, design, and implement innovative, beautiful, intuitive solutions for use by our federal customer and their stakeholders. -Create wireframes, storyboards, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas for websites and applications. -Create scalable design resources to aid in project collaboration and the expansion of ECS creative services. Qualifications:  -Bachelor's Degree. -Must be able to obtain a Public Trust. -Strong UX design experience. -10+ years combined professional design experience (UCD, UI/UX design). -Strong online portfolio that showcases the candidate’s ability to make research-driven decisions in the design of responsive web and mobile applications. -Results-oriented problem solver with high standards for quality, accuracy, attention to detail, and overall excellence. -Expertise in user research methodologies, user centered design principles and frameworks, and user interface design standards. -Advanced understanding of user personas, user flows, affinity mapping, and other research tools. -Strong understanding of the life cycle process of website development (discovery, planning, design, requirements, coding, testing, and user testing and evaluation). -Experience evaluating existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations. -Experience designing web and mobile applications that are compliant with 508 and US Web Design System (USWDS) standards. -Experience prioritizing features while accounting for user goals and business requirements. -Experience carrying designs from start to finish, from wireframes to delivery of final high-fidelity UI mockups. -Experience establishing and maintaining rapid customer feedback loops to inform design at critical stages. -Self-starter, motivated, confident and has ability to work independently as well as in a team environment. -Success on projects designed from scratch as well as redesigns for established platforms or products. -Experience mentoring/leading junior designers. -Advanced coding knowledge (HTML, CSS, and JS). -Advanced proficiency in Adobe xD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop. Ideally, you will also have: -Excellent interpersonal and client focused skills— interacts well with all levels of staff and partners with a positive and enthusiastic attitude. -Experience using Agile methodology to manage projects. -Experience creating and modifying data visualizations. -Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite. Our Commitment: Contact Government Services (CGS) strives to simplify and enhance government bureaucracy through the optimization of human, technical, and financial resources. We combine cutting-edge technology with world-class personnel to deliver customized solutions that fit our client’s specific needs. We are committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems. For the past seven years, we’ve been growing our government contracting portfolio, and along the way, we’ve created valuable partnerships by demonstrating a commitment to honesty, professionalism, and quality work. Here at CGS we value honesty through hard work and self-awareness, professionalism in all we do, and to deliver the best quality to our consumers mending those relations for years to come. We care about our employees. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive benefits package. -Health, Dental, and Vision -Life Insurance -401k -Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter) -Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays Contact Government Services, LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants will be considered without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Join our team and become part of government innovation! Explore additional job opportunities with CGS on our Job Board: https://cgsfederal.com/join-our-team/ For more information about CGS please visit: https://www.cgsfederal.com or contact: Email: info@cgsfederal.com #CJ

<p><strong>DRW</strong> is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.</p> <p>Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.</p> <p>We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. <strong>DRW</strong> is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.</p> <p><span data-contrast="auto">We are seeking a </span><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Senior UX Designer</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto"> to join our algorithmic trading team and lead the creation of our next generation of user interfaces.  </span><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}"> </span></p> <p><span data-ccp-props="{"134233117":false,"134233118":false,"201341983":0,"335551550":1,"335551620":1,"335559685":0,"335559737":0,"335559738":0,"335559739":160,"335559740":259}">This role is for our <strong>Chicago </strong>office only. 5 days a week in office, with flexibility when needed.</span></p> <p><strong><span data-contrast="auto">Responsibilities</span></strong><span data-contrast="auto">:</span><span data-ccp-props="{}"> </span></p> <ul> <li data-leveltext="" data-font="Symbol" data-listid="3" data-list-defn-props="{"335552541":1,"335559685":720,"335559991":360,"469769226":"Symbol",&quo