Associate Design Director Chicago

Company: Cedera
Location: Chicago
Posted on: January 28, 2025

Job Description:

OVERVIEW
Credera's Experience Design (XD) team is a group of ambitious user-researchers, strategists, designers, and front-end developers working collaboratively to create world-class experiences that are easy to use and enjoyable, while bringing distinctive value to our clients and their customers. Backed by the firm's deep expertise in tech consulting, XD pushes the boundaries in understanding what motivates people; designing beautiful, intuitive interfaces; and innovating with new technologies.
Credera's culture is built on putting people first. We prioritize relationship building, career development, and genuine connection. If you are looking to join a collaborative team where passion, drive and curiosity are nurtured and celebrated, we want to talk to you. Reach out to learn more and explore joining our growing team!
THE ROLE
As a full-time Associate Design Director with Credera XD, you will lead teams to create first-in-class consumer websites, web & mobile applications, eCommerce solutions, customer portals, and branding across multiple industry categories, including Fortune 100 companies. You will actively work on projects, as well as lead more junior members of the team to execute on your creative direction. By synthesizing learnings and using design thinking methods, you'll create and lead design solutions that serve the needs of millions of users around the world. Analysts, researchers, and other technology specialists will also be part of a broader team you'll be collaborating with to bring visionary concepts to life. You have a distinct design and UX point of view and you will participate in XD practice area growth and collaboration. Our user-centered approach means you are also engaged with users through a variety of innovative activities such as design sprints, user interviews, and usability testing sessions.
A great candidate:

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• Leads teams and steward clients toward more strategic design solutions
  
• Sets the vision and design direction and thoughtfully and purposefully solve problems for people, backed by research and user-understanding
  
• Mentors junior designers as they take the design vision forward producing additional mockups, flows, prototypes, and hi-fidelity assets.
  
• Participates in project discovery activities with our XD Insights & Strategy team members (building a story, doing competitive research, creating user personas, helping to define overall strategy and vision, etc.)
  
• Collaborates with Credera management consulting and technology leads to deliver comprehensive client solutions that serve real business needs, are technically sound, and deliver an amazing customer experience
  
• Has stellar presentation skills with the ability to articulate and defend the creative vision and choices to project teams and client executives
  
• Has excellent demonstrated visual design skills, including color, typography and layout and the ability to mentor others to develop these skills
  
• Enjoys learning and growing as a leader in our practice area with a clear path toward career advancement (recognition, salary and bonus rewards available along the way)
  
• Keeps up-to-date with industry trends and emerging technologies/techniques
  
• Has the ability to work as a part of a diverse team
  
• Values mentorship and the opportunity to learn from a Career Coach for yourself as well
  
  Qualifications
  
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  • Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in the area of Visual Art and Design, Human Computer Interaction and/or related field of study
    
  • 6+ years of related experience
    
  • Impressive portfolio of work that showcases how you develop and create best-in-class solutions.
    
  • Experience working in product design and development sprints
    
  • Knows how to manage a team of designers
    
  • Proficient with design software such as Figma, Sketch, or Adobe Creative Suite
    
  • Effective verbal and written communication skills
    
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States
    
    Bonus Points
    
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    • Skills in motion graphics and micro-interactions
      
      Learn More
      Credera is a global consulting firm that combines transformational consulting capabilities, deep industry knowledge, and AI and technology expertise to deliver valuable customer experiences and accelerated growth across a broad range of industries worldwide. Our one-of-a-kind global boutique approach means we provide our clients with tailored solutions unique to their organization that can scale due to our extensive footprint. As a values-led organization, our mission is to make an extraordinary impact on our clients, our people, and our community. We believe it is this approach that has allowed us to work with and transform the most influential brands and organizations in the world, from strategy through to execution.
      More information is available at .
      Hybrid Work Model:
      Our employees have the flexibility to work remotely two days per week. We expect our team members to spend 3 days per week in person with the flexibility to choose the days and times that work best for both them and their project or internal teams. This could be at a Credera office or at the client site. You'll work closely with your project team to align on how you balance both the flexibility that we want to provide with the connection of being together to produce amazing results for our clients.
      The why: We are passionate about growing our people both personally and professionally. Our philosophy is that in-person engagement is critical for our ability to develop deep relationships with our clients and our team members - it's how we earn trust, learn from others, and ultimately become better consultants and professionals.
      Travel: Our goal is to keep out-of-market travel to a minimum and most projects do not require significant travel. While certain projects can require frequent travel (up to 80% for a period of time), our average travel percentage over a year for team members is typically between 10-30%. We try to take a personal approach to travel. You will submit your travel preferences which our staffing teams will take into account when aligning you to a role.
      Credera will never ask for money up front and will not use apps such as Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp or Google Hangouts for communicating with you. You should be very wary of, and carefully scrutinize, any job opportunity that asks for money prior to starting and/or one where all communications take place exclusively via chat.
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