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Voluble Systems LLC

UX Researcher/Designer

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

Resume with hourly rate, location, time-zone overlap. * 2-3 samples (journey map, personas ... Comfortable planning and running interviews, observing real work, testing early ideas, and doing ...

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User Experience Designer

Chicago, IL · On-site

Through user research and usability testing, you will validate prototypes and analyze usage data to ... The actual base salary/hourly wage for this role will be determined by a variety of factors ...

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IL · On-site

Through user research and usability testing, you will validate prototypes and analyze usage data to ... The actual base salary/hourly wage for this role will be determined by a variety of factors ...

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APTPUO- Winter 2027-DTI6103

Campus, IL · On-site

$239.47/hr

... 19.5 Hourly Rate: Enseignement / Teaching: $239.47 (2024-2025) The academic year starts on ... user research methods, including tools and techniques for research, evaluation and testing.

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$18.50 - $19.61/hr

Grade 103 HIRING RANGE: $18.50 - $19.61 hourly Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable ... Provide exceptional customer service and user support to all visitors including students, faculty ...

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UX Researcher/Designer

Voluble Systems LLC

Chicago, IL • On-site, Remote

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Job description

Overview:
Company:
  • Grant Thornton is a major Audit, Tax, and Advisory Services company offering a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, operations, technology and more across various industries.
  • In the U.S., Grant Thornton delivers professional services through two specialized entities: Grant Thornton LLP, a licensed, certified public accounting (CPA) firm that provides audit and assurance services ? and Grant Thornton Advisors LLC (not a licensed CPA firm), which exclusively provides non-attest offerings, including tax and advisory services.
  • In 2025, Grant Thornton formed a multinational, multidisciplinary platform with Grant Thornton Ireland. The platform offers a premier Trans-Atlantic advisory and tax practice, as well as independent American and Irish audit practices.
  • With $2.7 billion in revenues and more than 50 offices spanning the U.S., Ireland and other territories, the platform delivers a singular client experience that includes enhanced solutions and capabilities, backed by powerful technologies and a roster of 12,000 quality-driven professionals.
Open Positions: 2
Location: 100% Remote
Duration: Contract - 6 months with potential to extend
Overview:
  • Grant Thornton is hiring a contract UX Researcher to assist with the Discovery phase for our internal web apps. Their job: figure out what users need and turn that into clear direction for product, design, and engineering.
  • They'll work under a Lead US Designer and with Product Managers, Engineers and Business Stakeholders on this initiative.
Responsibilities:
  • Lead discovery: Plan and run user research to understand jobs, pain points, and workflows.
  • Facilitate sessions: Run interviews, workshops, and stakeholder discussions-ask the "obvious" questions that surface assumptions.
  • Summarize what they learn: Turn notes into clear findings, "what this means," and recommend next steps.
  • Map the experience - Create:
o Role snapshots (personas): brief summaries of user types and needs.
o Step-by-step journeys: how users currently work, where it breaks, and the better future state.
o Simple screen sketches (wireframes) & flow diagrams: quick visuals that show how a task should work.
o Keep everyone aligned: Present short, clear readouts; document decisions; maintain a simple research archive.
What You Will Deliver:
  • Tools you know: Figma, Mural, Office
  • A practical UX plan and interview results.
  • A short deck communicating findings → what it means → recommended actions.
  • Lean personas for key roles.
  • Current-state and future-state journeys with pain points and simple success measures.
  • Task/flow diagrams and low-fi wireframes for critical paths.
  • A prioritized UX backlog.
  • Mockups as neccesary.
WHAT WE NEED FROM EVERY CANDIDATE:
  • Resume with hourly rate, location, time-zone overlap.
  • 2-3 samples (journey map, personas, insights readout, low-fi wires). Redactions OK.
  • Best discovery project (goal, what you did, outcome).
  • Examples from enterprise or B2B applications
  • Start date and weekly capacity
MUST HAVES:
  • 4-7+ years doing user research on product teams (enterprise or B2B preferred).
  • Tools you know: Figma, Mural, Office
  • Comfortable planning and running interviews, observing real work, testing early ideas, and doing quick usability checks.
  • Strong at turning raw notes into clear insights and prioritized recommendations.
  • Can independently produce personas, journeys, task flows, and low-fidelity wireframes in Figma, Mural, or similar.
  • Confident facilitator; good at guiding groups, handling pushback, and driving to clarity.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication-exec-friendly and concise.
Nice to Haves:
  • Design experience and portfolio of enterprise-related work, or similar.
  • Experience in complex or regulated spaces (tax, audit, finance, healthcare, public
  • sector).
  • Basic survey skills to complement interviews.
  • Service design exposure (e.g., mapping processes).
  • Light Research Ops (consent, recruiting, templates).
  • User testing and feedback gathering
  • Design experience with high-fidelity mockup and/or clickable prototypes.
Interview Process:
  • 30 minute technical interview with Director
  • 30 minute interview with Teammate

Skills:
Figma,UX Design,UI/UX

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