Lead Experience Designer

Chicago, IL (Hybrid)

$60/hr – $90/hrSenior LevelTemporary

Posted 4 months ago

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Job Summary

Drive UX/UI design for digital experiences as a contract Lead Experience Designer.

  • Own end-to-end UX/UI design for web pages and dashboards across responsive breakpoints.
  • Must-have: 5+ years in experience/product design in an agency or product environment.
  • Standout: Strong design-system, Figma proficiency, and cross-functional collaboration.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Design and build low- and high-fidelity UX, UI, and visual deliverables for web-based product and marketing pages, dashboards, and other digital channels across responsive breakpoints.
  • Apply and evolve existing design systems, component libraries, and style guides with consistency and care.
  • Create production-ready design artifacts including page layouts, component specs, interaction states, and documentation.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams including UX, copy, engineering, and client stakeholders to bring designs to life.
  • Maintain rigorous attention to detail, QA-ing designs for visual accuracy, accessibility, and system alignment.
  • Contribute to style guide creation, system documentation, and best-practice guidelines.
  • Present work clearly and confidently, articulating design rationale and tradeoffs.
  • Support multiple workstreams while managing priorities, timelines, and feedback efficiently.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of progressively-responsible experience in experience design, product design, digital design, or UI design within an advertising agency, media organization, in-house agency, consultancy, or product-driven environment.
  • Prior experience partnering directly with clients to confidently present work, articulate rationale for approach in the context of both business and user needs, and workshop and brainstorm iterative changes to ongoing projects.
  • Prior experience leading project teams of designers and content strategists to produce on-time and quality deliverables.
  • Deep understanding of the full experience design process from research to architecture to visual design.
  • Experience building a variety of UX deliverables including user flows, site and journey maps, personas, mockups, prototypes, and wireframes with just enough research experience to be dangerous.
  • A strong visual design foundation with proven experience designing polished, system-driven UI and an eye for the fundamentals of visual design including color, typography, illustration, motion, etc.
  • Advanced proficiency in Figma (including components, variants, libraries, and documentation workflows) as well as other specialized tools including Adobe Creative Cloud, Sketch, InVision, and Keynote.
  • Experience working within large-scale design systems and contributing to their evolution, modernization, and enhancement.
  • Experience collaborating closely with engineers, UX, content, and product partners including handoff workflows and design specs
  • A portfolio showcasing innovative, impactful, high-quality UX/UI, product, and marketing-driven digital experiences is REQUIRED and should be submitted at the time of application.

Preferred

  • Familiarity with prompt-based interaction and commonly used generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Google Gemini, DALL·E, Midjourney) is a plus, especially for tasks like ideation, research, or content generation.

Benefits

  • Digitas offers medical and voluntary benefits to our freelancers and temporary employees. Voluntary benefit options include supplemental medical insurance, transportation, and parking benefits, legal benefits, pet insurance, and auto and home insurance.
  • For regular roles, the Company will offer medical coverage, dental, vision, disability, 401k, and paid time off.
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Digitas North America

3.9 Glassdoor

Digitas is the Networked Experience Agency, built on the vision that we create magnetic experiences that earn the right for brands to exist in human networks. Today, and tomorrow. We deliver Networked Experiences by leveraging comprehensive data, technology, creative, media and strategy capabilities. Digitas delivers ambitious outcomes via unique solutions that include Creative Experiences, Integrated Media, Addressable Relationships, Social Marketing and Total Commerce. Celebrated by AdAge as Data and Insights Agency of the Year, U.S Campaign’s Brand Experience Agency of the Year, Media Network of the Year and celebrated by Forrester and Gartner, Digitas serves the world’s leading brands through a global network comprised of more than 5,500 employees across over 65 offices in 43 countries.

Founded in 1980
Boston, Massachusetts, US
2.8K employees (892 in marketing)
74% recommend to a friend
82% CEO approval

Traffic Signals

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67.2K
Traffic Source Mix
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Direct
42.7%
Referral
6.8%
Social
6.2%
Paid
1.1%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~2.9K

Marketing Team

Marketing Team Size
673 (23% of company)
Median Career Experience
11 years
Median Tenure
3.9 years
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