User Experience Designer Job at Dahl Consulting in Minneapolis

Title: User Experience Designer

Location: Minneapolis, MN and Brooklyn Park, MN

Job Type: Contract (12 Months)

Compensation: $52.63 - $75.18/hr

Industry: Retail

About The Role

We are partnering with a leading enterprise retailer with a strong focus on digital transformation and internal innovation to hire a User Experience (UX) Designer. This role supports the design of internal tools that enable teams to efficiently move products from concept to shelf. The organization operates at large scale, balancing complex workflows, enterprise systems, and user needs across multiple business functions.

This is a hybrid position requiring local candidates who can work onsite in the Minneapolis–St. Paul area as part of an established design and product organization.

Job Description

As a UX Designer on the internal tools team, you will help shape intuitive, efficient experiences that support critical internal workflows. You’ll partner closely with a Lead UX Designer, senior leadership, product managers, engineers, and research partners to apply human-centered design practices throughout the product lifecycle.

This is a hands-on, execution-focused role ideal for a designer who enjoys translating user insights into well-crafted, usable solutions and validating designs through research and data.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with UX leadership to translate product and business goals into clear UX strategies and solutions
• Conduct user discovery to deeply understand workflows, pain points, and unmet needs
• Design end-to-end experiences that balance user needs, business objectives, and technical constraints
• Create UX deliverables including user flows, information architectures, wireframes, prototypes, and problem statements
• Design beyond the happy path, accounting for error states, edge cases, and data variability
• Plan, track, and manage design work in Jira while collaborating in an agile environment
• Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to identify usability issues and improvement opportunities
• Test design concepts and prototypes with users to validate assumptions and refine solutions
• Collaborate with research partners to frame hypotheses, measure outcomes, and assess design impact

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in UX or Product Design
• Proven ability to execute UX design across the full product lifecycle, from problem definition through delivery and iteration
• Strong grounding in human-centered design practices with a clearly articulated design process
• Experience producing and intentionally applying multiple levels of design fidelity
• Expertise in Figma for design, prototyping, and collaboration
• Strong skills in interaction design, information architecture, and UX visual design
• Experience conducting user research and synthesizing findings into clear, actionable insights
• Proficiency in UX methods such as journey mapping, workflow design, and usability testing
• Experience designing enterprise or internal-facing software tools
• Ability to design beyond the happy path, accounting for edge cases, error states, and data variability
• Experience working in agile, cross-functional environments using tools such as Jira
• Strong collaboration, communication, and facilitation skills, including partnering with product, engineering, and research
• High attention to detail and a commitment to quality craft
• Working knowledge of web accessibility standards and inclusive design practices

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing complex internal tools or operational platforms at scale
• Familiarity with using qualitative and quantitative data to inform design decisions
• Experience collaborating closely with dedicated UX research partners
• Background working within large, matrixed organizations

Benefits

Dahl Consulting is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees that will allow you to choose the best coverage to meet your family’s needs. For details, please review the DAHL Benefits Summary: https://www.dahlconsulting.com/benefits-w2fta/.

Equal Opportunity Statement

As an equal opportunity employer, Dahl Consulting welcomes candidates of all backgrounds and experiences to apply. If this position sounds like the right opportunity for you, we encourage you to take the next step and connect with us. We look forward to meeting you!