UI/UX Designer

About the position

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

• Partner with engineers, product managers, and business stakeholders to practice high-level research strategy across multiple product teams.
• Support and champion the process for developing a cohesive experience across applications by maintaining a living style guide and pattern library.
• Facilitate design thinking workshops, create and carry out research plans, and design interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes.
• Design elegant, thoughtful solutions for complex workflows through the use of type, hierarchy, interactions, and design patterns.
• Assure design quality by collaborating closely with design team, developers, product owners, and business analysts to write clear and detailed specs.
• Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams.
• Keep up with evolving design trends, technologies, and best practices.
• Contribute visual styles to KeHE's design system; maintain and update our pattern library, living style guide and sketch component library.
• Conduct user and competitive research.
• Facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements.
• Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, UI specifications & requirements, prototypes/wireframes.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Developers to define and translate business and functional requirements into user-friendly and technically optimal/feasible designs.
• Design and conduct usability studies to ensure designs are intuitive and easy-to-use.
• Demonstrate UI/UX best practices in product teams.
• Stay current with UX, visual design, and front-end technologies.

Requirements

• 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
• 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

Nice-to-haves

• Scrum and Kanban experience a plus

Benefits

• Health/Rx
• Dental
• Vision
• Flexible and health spending accounts (FSA/HSA)
• Supplemental life insurance
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Paid sick time
• Short term & long term disability coverage (STD/LTD)
• Employee stock ownership (ESOP)
• Holiday pay for company designated holidays
• Fun environment where work-life balance is valued
• Opportunities for advancement
• Continued learning and development stipend
• Competitive salary
• Employee-owned company
• Competitive benefits package