UX Designer

Job Title : UX Designer

Role Type : 4+ Months Contract

Location : Northbrook, IL

Responsibilities :

• Define and communicate the design vision, strategy, and roadmap for the ULTRUS software suite — ensuring alignment with business objectives (e.g., compliance, sustainability, product lifecycle management) and the evolving needs of enterprise users.
• Conduct and synthesize research (user, market, competitive, regulatory) and generate strategic insights that inform new product directions, feature prioritization, service ecosystems, workflows and design system evolution.
• Develop strategic artifacts including service blueprints, experience maps, ecosystem diagrams, journey maps, business model canvases, product-service system frameworks, and strategic design principles for the portfolio.
• Partner with product management and engineering to translate strategic design direction into actionable design execution — including guiding UX / UI, information architecture, interaction models, content strategy, cross-platform consistency and modular design system governance.
• Elevate the experience of ULTRUS by ensuring consistent, enterprise-grade design language, coherent UI / UX patterns, scalable design system components, and a unified user experience across modules (e.g., compliance, sustainability, learning, energy).
• Facilitate cross-functional design workshops, co-creation sessions, stakeholder alignment meetings and customer insights engagements to ensure design decisions tie directly to business value, user outcomes and market differentiation.
• Establish and evolve methodologies, processes and governance for design strategy within the software organization — ensuring design is embedded throughout the lifecycle, from concept through launch and iteration.
• Measure and articulate the impact of design strategy on key outcomes (user engagement, adoption, time-to-value, business KPIs, brand perception) and use data to iterate on strategy and design decisions.
• Mentor and influence other designers, UX researchers, service designers and product stakeholders to build design maturity within the organization.

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