UI/UX Designer

US-IL-Naperville

KeHE External Careers

Req #: 25368
Type: Regular Full-Time
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KeHE Distributors, LLC

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				Overview:

The food industry is ripe for innovation and KeHE is leading the way by delivering high quality digital solutions that are transforming the industry. KeHE is a natural, organic, and fresh food distributor where innovation, teamwork and collaboration reign. We build digital products, but it's our commitment to people that makes KeHE a great place to work. If you are looking for opportunities to grow and work with passionate and creative people, we'd love for you to join our Digital Product Development Team!

Responsibilities:

The UX/UI Designer partners with our engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to practice high-level research strategy across multiple product teams while guiding the execution to align with KeHE's vision. With help from the design team, you will support and champion the process for developing a cohesive experience across applications by maintaining a living style guide and pattern library. As an integral part of the product development team, a UI/UX Designer works with product teams to ensure teams are delivering a customer-focused experience that drives business outcome by advocating UX methodologies and techniques.

Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the UX/UI Designer facilitates design thinking workshops, creates and carries out research plans, and designs interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member enables the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in Design (Graphic, Interaction, Visual, and Digital), Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Architecture, Marketing, or related UX field
* 5+ years of UI Design for web, mobile, and application design and/or UX strategy
* Strong technical proficiency with design tools such as InVision, Sketch, and Adobe Creative Suite
* Scrum and Kanban experience a plus
* Portfolio of work is required
* Design thinking mentality 
* Experience with lean UX and just in time design cycles  
* Strong verbal and written communication skills
* Familiarity with current front-end web technologies, native interface guidelines, web services, and APIs
* Ability to estimate efforts, prioritize tasks and goals, and rapidly produce deliverables in a fast-paced iterative environment
* Flexible and able to handle a variety of assignments in various stages at the same time
* Creative problem solving - not just solving problems but developing multiple solutions
* Acts with empathy and curiosity; listens and seeks to understand
* Passionate mindset with positive intent 
* ZERO ego. Collaborative team environment and must be able to work well with others

Benefits & Perks

* Fun environment where work-life balance is valued
* Opportunities for advancement
* Continued learning and development stipend
* Competitive salary
* Employee-owned company
* Competitive benefits package
			
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