Jobs via Dice is hiring: UI/IX Designer in Grand Rapids

Overview

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 an on-site role.

Responsibilities

• Support Agile Product Teams in delivering world-class software experiences, ranging from native iOS apps to responsive web experiences.
• Collaborate with the Digital Product and Experience Design (DXD) team, including both agency resources and internal UI/UX professionals located in Michigan, California, Singapore and around the globe.
• Work with designers to review designs and co-create, translating user needs into design solutions.

Required Qualifications

• 1–3 years of 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.
• Proficiency in at least one product design tool (Adobe XD, Sketch, Figma, etc.). Figma is listed as the tool of choice.
• Comfortable working with a design team to review designs and co-create.
• Passion for learning and growing design skillset.

Skills to be successful in the role

• Appetite for learning and growing design skills; ability to take design feedback and apply it to ongoing work.
• Understanding of user-driven design for digital experiences.
• Collaborative problem solving with a technology team; ability to bring the voice of the customer/business owner to inform product decisions.
• Empathy with customers and personas; ability to connect customer needs to design solutions.
• Flexibility to collaborate with product teams on design solutions, requirements, and timelines.
• Curiosity about human behavior and a data-driven decision-making mindset.
• Experience creating prototypes for testing and illustration purposes.
• Ability to articulate a point of view on experience and visual design.
• Familiarity with universal design patterns for responsive web and mobile applications.
• Experience handing off designs to development and ensuring UI quality in the final product.
• Functional understanding of coding and ability to converse with engineering teams.
• Ability to interpret business needs and user data into actionable experience changes.
• Ability to create wireframes, design layouts, and design components.
• Continued education and research into UX trends and current design strategy and technologies.
• Ability to analyze experience performance and determine design optimizations.

Company Summary

Initech Global is a leader in the staffing industry, providing consulting, recruiting, and staffing solutions in information technology. Since 2001, Initech Global has helped companies around the world accomplish their most critical business objectives through disciplined client service and a unique talent management model. The company has maintained client and talent retention above 90% since inception and has been recognized by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US for the last two years. We are Initech Global, powered by people.