Job Description
- We're looking for a contract UX Designer to help shape the next evolution for Business-our B2B digital acquisition experience.
- This is a hands-on role for a designer who pairs strong visual craft with practical UX thinking.
- You'll own much of the day-to-day design of the Business site, creating compelling merchandising experiences while helping evolve an established digital ecosystem.
- Own design for Business digital merchandising and acquisition experiences, from early concepts and wireframes through polished, production-ready designs.
- Translate complex products, offers, and business requirements into experiences that feel clear, compelling, and easy to navigate.
- Help evolve the Business site toward a new dark-mode design expression, contributing ideas, patterns, and component enhancements along the way.
- Create polished layouts and web-ready assets with strong attention to hierarchy, composition, typography, imagery, and interaction.
- Work confidently within an established Figma design system, while identifying opportunities to extend and improve components when the experience calls for it.
- Build and modify robust Figma components using properties, variants, variables, auto layout, and other scalable design-system practices.
- Partner closely with a producer, business owner, developers, and the broader Experience Design team to move work from idea to launch.
- Deliver thoughtful, developer-ready designs and specifications with precision and consistency.
- Apply UX and accessibility best practices, including WCAG standards, throughout the design process.
- Use research, testing, analytics, and A/B testing insights to continuously improve experiences.
- Communicate your thinking clearly-explaining not just what you designed, but why.
- Balance creative ambition with real-world timelines. We value designers who can push the experience forward and ship the work.
Qualifications
- A portfolio is required.
- A versatile digital designer who cares equally about how an experience works and how it feels.
- Can take ownership of an assignment, navigate ambiguity, make thoughtful design decisions independently, and recognize when collaboration will make the work stronger.
- Comfortable working quickly without sacrificing craft, and you bring curiosity and creative problem-solving to challenges that may not always arrive with an obvious solution.
- Experience designing customer-facing web experiences, particularly merchandising, commerce, acquisition, or marketing experiences.
- A strong foundation in UX, interaction design, information hierarchy, and usability.
- Excellent visual design skills and a sharp eye for composition, typography, imagery, spacing, and detail.
- Strong production-design skills and experience preparing digital assets for the web.
- Advanced proficiency in Figma, including auto layout, components, variants, component properties, variables, and libraries.
- Experience working within-and ideally contributing to-established design systems.
- Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop.
- An understanding of responsive web design and the realities of designing for production.
- The ability to balance customer needs, business objectives, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Interested if you bring experience with:
- Motion design, animation, After Effects, or video.
- User testing and A/B testing.
- Content design or strong UX writing instincts.
- B2B digital experiences.
- E-commerce or subscription-based products.
- Creating or evolving component libraries and design systems.
- Experience using AI within your creative workflow is a plus, whether that means generating or refining imagery, accelerating production work, exploring concepts, prototyping, or finding smarter ways to solve everyday design problems.
- Familiarity with tools such as ChatGPT, Adobe Firefly, Google Gemini, Claude, or Figma's AI capabilities is welcome, as is an interest in experimenting with what comes next.
- Exceptional visual craft - polished digital work that demonstrates a strong eye for design.
- UX thinking - evidence that you understand the problem behind the interface and can make thoughtful experience decisions.
- Design systems - examples of working with, extending, or creating reusable components and patterns.
- Commerce or B2B experience - helpful, but not required.
California Fair Chance Act
Synectics Inc. will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act. You do not need to disclose your criminal history or participate in a background check until a conditional job offer is made to you. After making a conditional offer and running a background check, if Synectics Inc. is concerned about conviction that is directly related to the job, you will be given the chance to explain the circumstances surrounding the conviction, provide mitigating evidence, or challenge the accuracy of the background report. Find out more about the Fair Chance Act by visiting calcivilrights.ca.gov/fair-chance-act/.
Benefits
Healthcare Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents healthcare coverage through BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics. Premiums are subsidized by Synectics.
Dental Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees and their dependents a dental plan through MetLife. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.
Vision Insurance: Synectics offers eligible employees vision insurance through VSP. Eligibility begins on the 1st day of the calendar month following 60 days of continuous full time employment with Synectics.
401(k) Plan: The Synectics Inc. Investment Savings Retirement Plan. Synectics offers all employees who are 21 years of age or older the opportunity to invest in the 401(k) Plan on the first of the month following at least 1 calendar year after employment begins.
Synectics is an equal opportunity employer.
