Catena Solutions is hiring: Communications Designer, User Experience in Chicago

Communications Designer, User Experience

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Base pay range

$40.00/hr - $42.00/hr

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Talent Engagement Director @ Catena Solutions

JOB TITLE: Communications Designer, UX (long term contract)

LOCATION: Chicago, IL or Houston, TX (must be local for hybrid onsite)

PAY RATE: $40ph / w2

START DATE: asap

DURATION: approx. 6 months – with strong possibility to extend

HOURS: Monday- Friday, 40 hours per week

About the Role

We’re looking for a Communication Designer to help our Customer UX team communicate ideas with clarity, creativity, and visual impact. In this role, you’ll transform complex design concepts, research insights, and strategies into compelling visual narratives—helping teams and stakeholders align around a shared vision.

You’ll design presentations, iconography, and illustrations that elevate storytelling across product, research, and design initiatives. This is a highly collaborative role that blends visual craft, systems thinking, and storytelling to make design work more engaging and understandable across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Design compelling presentations for UX reviews, research readouts, and executive communications.
• Translate design concepts and strategies into clear, visual stories that communicate intent and impact.
• Create iconography, diagrams, and illustrations to support UX documentation, product concepts, and design systems.
• Collaborate with UX Designers, Researchers, and Stakeholders to visualize findings, frameworks, and design principles.
• Maintain and evolve visual storytelling standards within the design system, ensuring alignment with product and brand.
• Craft clear, succinct visual stories—in the form of storyboards or videos—that distill insights and data from multiple sources into engaging narratives.
• Develop reusable templates and visual frameworks that help teams tell their stories efficiently and consistently.
• Champion visual communication as a tool for collaboration, understanding, and influence within the UX organization.

Qualifications/Education

• 2-5 years of experience in Communication Design, Visual Design, or related fields—ideally within UX or product organizations.
• A strong portfolio showcasing presentation design, iconography, and visual storytelling for digital experiences.
• Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (especially Illustrator and Photoshop).
• Ability to translate abstract concepts into accessible visual frameworks.
• Excellent sense of layout, hierarchy, typography, and color.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills—you thrive in a team setting.
• Experience with motion graphics or prototyping tools (After Effects, Principle, etc.) is a plus.

Catena Solutions brings 30+ years of expertise supporting organizations to drive growth, optimize operations, and navigate industry challenges. Our team of consultants specialize in the areas of Change & People, Project & Program Management, Insights & Analytics, Strategic Growth & Innovation, Revenue Growth Management, Creative & Digital Marketing, Supply Chain Operations, Order to Cash, and Food Safety & Quality.

In addition to base pay, Advanced Group (consisting of Advanced Clinical and Catena Solutions) full-time employees are also eligible for benefits options such as health coverage, life insurance, disability insurances, and 401k benefits.

At Advanced Group, our commitment to diversity and inclusion in every part of our organization is crucial to fulfilling our mission and demonstrating our REAL values. It is Advanced Group's practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant because of sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation or sexual preference, pregnancy or maternity, genetic information, marital status, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state or local law. This practice applies to all terms and conditions of employment including, but not limited to, hiring, training, compensation, benefits, promotions, transfers, layoff, Company-sponsored education, social and recreational programs, and treatment on the job.

If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.

Seniority level

Associate

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Design

Industries: Hospitality and Technology, Information and Media

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