User Experience Designer

SYNERGIS
Chicago, IL, United States
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Temporary to permanent
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Compensation
$124,800.0 - $135,200.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Artificial Intelligence Client Server Models Interaction Design Service Design Website Wireframe Material UI Figma User Administration

Job description

We are seeking an experienced UX Designer to join a shopping product team focused on designing innovative conversational shopping experiences. In this role, you will help shape how customers discover, evaluate, and purchase products through AI-powered, chat-based interactions. You’ll work within an established design system to create intuitive end-to-end experiences that seamlessly integrate with the broader shopping ecosystem.

This role is ideal for a designer with a strong retail/e-commerce background who excels at systems thinking, service design, and crafting user-centered conversational experiences.

Work to Be Accomplished

  • Design end-to-end conversational shopping experiences that enable customers to discover, compare, and purchase products through AI-driven interactions.
  • Create user flows, interaction models, wireframes, high-fidelity designs, and clickable prototypes using an existing design system in Figma.
  • Design both successful (“happy path”) and failure (“unhappy path”) customer journeys to ensure resilient, intuitive shopping experiences.
  • Develop journey maps, service blueprints, and experience concepts that illustrate the complete customer journey across conversational touchpoints.
  • Collaborate closely with product managers, UX researchers, engineers, content designers, and cross-functional design teams to ensure a cohesive customer experience.
  • Ensure conversational shopping experiences align with broader product strategy, design standards, and customer experience principles.
  • Translate business objectives and customer insights into scalable interaction patterns for AI-powered shopping.
  • Iterate on concepts based on stakeholder feedback, usability findings, and evolving product requirements., * Design conversational interfaces for retail and shopping experiences.
  • Produce interaction flows, customer journey maps, service blueprints, and prototypes.
  • Apply systems thinking to connect conversational experiences across the entire shopping journey.
  • Leverage an existing design kit to rapidly build scalable, consistent experiences.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams to align designs with product vision and technical feasibility.
  • Explore future-state concepts while delivering practical, production-ready solutions.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of UX/Product Design experience, preferably within retail, e-commerce, or shopping platforms.
  • Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end customer journey design and complex interaction design.
  • Experience designing conversational, AI-assisted, or chat-based user experiences.
  • Deep understanding of retail customer behavior and shopping decision-making.
  • Expertise in Figma, including component libraries, prototyping, and design systems.
  • Experience creating:
  • User flows
  • Customer journey maps
  • Service blueprints
  • Wireframes and high-fidelity mockups
  • Interactive prototypes
  • Strong systems-thinking mindset with the ability to design across interconnected experiences.
  • Excellent communication and collaboration skills within cross-functional product teams., * Experience designing AI-assisted or generative AI product experiences.
  • Background in conversational UX, virtual assistants, or intelligent product discovery.
  • Experience working within mature enterprise design systems.
  • Familiarity with strategic design, future-state visioning, and service design methodologies.

Benefits & conditions

The hourly pay rate range for this position is $60.00 to $65.00 (dependent on factors including but not limited to client requirements, experience, statutory considerations, and location). Benefits available to full-time employees: medical, dental, vision, disability, life insurance, 401k and commuter benefits.

Synergis is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, age, gender, gender identity, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, military/veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act.

About the company

Synergis is a workforce solutions partner serving thousands of businesses and job seekers nationwide. Our digital world has accelerated the need for businesses to build IT ecosystems that enable growth and innovation along with enhancing the Total Experience (TX). Synergis partners with our clients at the intersection of talent and transformation to scale their balanced teams of tech, digital and creative professionals.

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