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Lead UX/UI Designer

Lensa
Chicago, IL Contractor
POSTED ON 2/21/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 3/20/2025
Our client is seeking a dynamic and experienced Lead UX/UI Designer for a contract role through the end of 2025. This is a pivotal leadership position that involves mentorship, cross-functional collaboration, facilitating workshops, participating in leadership meetings, and ensuring the quality of UX/UI deliverables. This role will also involve some hands-on design work.

Responsibilities

  • Mentorship and Coaching: Provide timely feedback and assign tasks based on team members' strengths and growth areas.
  • Relationship Building & Collaboration: Foster smooth collaboration with other disciplines and maintain a close working relationship with product/project leadership.
  • Facilitation & Active Participation: Plan and facilitate design thinking and discovery workshops. Actively participate in product/project leadership meetings and other collaborative sessions.
  • Deliverable Quality: Uphold the highest design standards, ensuring that designs are based on data and research. Contribute hands-on design work and create delightful, data-driven, accessible solutions.

Ideal Candidate Profile

  • Prior experience in a Team Lead role, leading a UX/UI workstream with multiple team members.
  • Experience facilitating design workshops, sprint planning, participating in leadership meetings, working with product owners/product managers.
  • Proficiency in using research, data, and other design thinking methods to solve UX/UI problems.
  • Strong preference for someone with experience in a digital marketing agency and/or digital consulting firm or must have prior client-facing experience.
  • Proficiency in Figma.
  • Portfolio demonstrating work across UX and UI.

This is a remote role supporting East Coast hours. Candidates must be willing to complete a background check & drug screen upon offer. Join our client's team and contribute to creating exceptional user experiences!

Horizontal facilitates valuable and productive conversations between you and potential employers. We can assist you in growing your career by partnering you with employers that offer challenging assignments. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $49 - $85 per hour. This is not a guarantee of compensation, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location.

Horizontal is proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. We seek to provide employment opportunities to talented, qualified candidates regardless of race, color, sex/gender including gender identity and/or expression, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, citizen status, veteran status, or any other protected classification under federal, state or local law.

In addition, Horizontal will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need to request a reasonable accommodation in order to complete the application or interview process, please contact us. All applicants applying must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment.

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Salary : $49 - $85

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