User Experience Designer Job at Level Studios in Chicago

Company description

For 25 years, Level has developed marketing solutions for some of the world’s most innovative brands. We believe the best solutions come from collaborative working partnerships with our clients. Whether an established brand or a start-up, we believe in the power of creative strategy, design, and technology to solve business challenges.

Overview

As an Experience Designer at Level Studios, you're a strong advocate for the customer. You're formally trained in design and passionate about customer-centric innovation. You take pride in your work, obsess over details, and insist on iterating until you've gotten it right. You see feedback as a good thing. You're a storyteller who is at ease presenting and discussing your work with clients and stakeholders. You challenge old ways of thinking and put the customer at the center of everything you do. User-Centered Design methodologies are second nature to you.

Your craft : You take ownership of the UX artifacts for projects and work closely with other team members as well as other disciplines to create extraordinary digital experiences. You work directly with clients and serve as a design thinking resource across products / platforms and content / campaigns. You are skilled in all aspects of experience design including experience strategy, user testing, IA / content strategy, deep prototyping, and UI design / interaction design.

Your sweet spot : You collaborate with all other disciplines and understand the dependencies that impact design and development throughout the project life cycle.

Tools : Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Microsoft Office Suite

PLEASE NOTE : This is a hybrid role based out of our Chicago office and will require onsite engagement an average of 3 days / week. All candidates should be local to the Chicago metro and willing to be in-office on a consistent basis.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with other UX designers, visual designers, copywriters, design researchers, creative technologists, product owners, and developers to transform complex problems into elegant experiences.
• Ideate, concept, develop, iterate, and evolve innovative digital experiences for a wide range of web, responsive web, and native mobile digital touchpoints within an existing design system.
• Create UX artifacts including sketches, wireframes, specifications, prototypes, scenarios, storyboards, sitemaps, user / screen flows, journey maps, and personas.
• Document current and future state experiences.
• Participate in observational studies, usability testing, and other customer research to gain qualitative & quantitative data insights.
• Support and validate estimation of relevant deliverables based on project requirements, timelines, and resources.
• Define and execute competitive reviews, heuristic evaluations, and immersive activities.
• Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure that design intent is achieved.
• Facilitate cross-disciplinary idea generation sessions and client reviews; communicate and present approach and rationale for concepts and designs to team members and directly to client.

Qualifications

Additional information

The Power of One starts with our people! To do powerful things, we offer powerful resources. Our best-in-class wellness and benefits offerings include :

The benefits offerings listed are available to eligible U.S. Based employees, are reviewed on an annual basis, and are governed by the terms of the applicable plan documents.

Level Studios is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our employment decisions are made without regard to actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law, genetic information, marital status, military service and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws and ordinances.

If you require accommodation or assistance with the application or onboarding process specifically, please contact USMSTACompliance@publicis.com. All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Compensation Range : $66,785-$92,295 annually. This is the pay range the Company believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law, compensation will be determined based on the skills, qualifications, and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position, and the Company reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time. For this role, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off. The Company anticipates the application deadline for this job posting will be 2 / 14 / 2025.

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Salary : $66,785 - $92,295