Initech Global is hiring: Junior UI/UX Designer in Grand Rapids

We are looking for a Junior Product Designer with UI and UX Design Experience for our client in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is a contract position through the end of the year 2025 with the possibility of extension.               

This is ON-SITE role.

What's special about this role:

In this role you will sit on the Client’s Digital Product and Experience Design team (DXD) with a number of other amazing designers. You will support Agile Product Teams in delivering world class software experiences, ranging from Native iOS apps to responsive web experiences. The DXD team is made up of both high-level agency resources and internal UI/UX professionals located in Michigan, California, Singapore and around the globe.

Required qualifications

·        1-3 years’ experience in UX/UI Design

·        Experience providing UX Deliverables to Agile Product Teams with support from other Designers or Design Leads, including Wireframes, User Flows, Journey Maps.

·        Ability to create Low Fidelity Mockups, High Fidelity Visual Designs, and Interactive Prototypes

·        Proficient in at least one Product Design Tool: Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, etc (Figma is our tool of choice.)

·        Comfortable working with a design team to review designs and co-create.

·        Passion for learning and growing their design skillset.

Skills to be successful in the role:

·        Appetite for learning and growing your design skills

·        Ability to take design feedback in stride and apply it to works in progress

·        Understand user driven design for the user's experience in digital experiences

·        You enjoy collaborative problem solving with a technology team.

·        You can bring the voice of the customer/business owner to the table to inform product decisions

·        Ability to empathize with customers and needs of personas within these broader groups

·        Can draw connections between customer needs and design solutions

·        Ability to collaborate and be flexible with your product team regarding design solutions, design requirements, and time frames

·        You have a natural curiosity about human behavior and a data driven decision making mindset

·        Comfortable creating prototypes for testing and illustration purposes

·        Equally comfortable developing and communicating a point of view on experience and visual design

·        Familiar with universal design patterns for responsive web and mobile applications.

·        Experience handing off designs to development and ensuring the UI quality of the final product

·        Functional understanding of coding and ability to converse with engineering teams

·        Ability to interpret and drive business needs and user data into actionable experience changes

·        Ability create wireframes, design layouts, design components

·        Continued education and research into UX trends and current design strategy and technologies

·        Analyzing experience performance and determining design optimizations

COMPANY SUMMARY

Initech Global is a leader in the staffing industry, providing consulting, recruiting, and staffing solutions in the field of information technology. Since 2001, Initech Global has been helping companies around the world accomplish their most critical business objectives through our disciplined client service approach, and our unique talent management model. Both client and talent retention continue to surpass 90% since the company’s inception fifteen years ago, and we’ve been recognized by Inc. 5000ä as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US for the last two years. Our clients and employees are the key to our success, and people are at the heart of everything we do. We are Initech Global, and we are Powered By Peopleä.