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User Interface Design System Engineer Jobs in Chicago, IL

CourtAvenue

Design Director, Platform UI

Chicago, IL

$159K - $196K/yr

... a finished, system-aware, engineering-ready interface. You will also partner deeply with ... Stay on the pulse of platform UI, design system practice, accessibility standards, and emerging ...

CourtAvenue

Design Director, Platform UI

Chicago, IL · On-site

$159K - $196K/yr

... a finished, system-aware, engineering-ready interface. You will also partner deeply with ... Stay on the pulse of platform UI, design system practice, accessibility standards, and emerging ...

Epsilon

Senior UI-UX Designer

Chicago, IL

Overview The Sr. UI Designer will be the design-focused voice at the intersection of design and ... You've created design system documentation and component stories that designers and engineers ...

Life Fitness

Sr UI Designer

Rosemont, IL · On-site

$93K - $135K/yr

Contribute to the evolution and governance of the design system, ensuring consistency across ... Experience collaborating closely with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional stakeholders.

WeatherTech

UI/UX Designer

Bolingbrook, IL · On-site

Collaborate closely with developers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and efficiently ... Brand & Design Systems * Maintain consistency across digital experiences by creating and evolving U ...

Unlock Health

UX/UI Design Lead

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$172K/yr

Who You Are Unlock Health is hiring a UX/UI Design Lead who combines exceptional craft with systems ... including component systems, prototyping, responsive design, and developer handoff workflows.

Life Fitness

Sr UI Designer

Rosemont, IL · Hybrid

$93K - $135K/yr

Partner closely with Product Managers and Engineers to translate product requirements ... Contribute to the evolution and governance of the design system, ensuring consistency across ...

WeatherTech Direct, LLC

UI/UX Designer

Bolingbrook, IL · On-site

$105 - $125/hr

Collaborate closely with developers to ensure designs are implemented accurately and efficiently ... Brand & Design Systems * Maintain consistency across digital experiences by creating and evolving U ...

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Unlock Health

UX/UI Design Lead

Chicago, IL · On-site +1

$172K/yr

Who You Are Unlock Health is hiring a UX/UI Design Lead who combines exceptional craft with systems ... including component systems, prototyping, responsive design, and developer handoff workflows.

Donato Technologies, Inc

UI Architect

Chicago, IL · On-site

We are seeking a UI Architect with deep expertise in building and scaling design systems within the ... Collaborate with UX designers, product owners, and back-end developers to translate business ...

Donato Technologies, Inc

UI Architect

Chicago, IL · On-site

We are seeking a UI Architect with deep expertise in building and scaling design systems within the ... Collaborate with UX designers, product owners, and back-end developers to translate business ...

Trigyn Technologies

UI Developer

Chicago, IL

$51.50 - $67/hr

... engineer who is interested in working with web interfaces. In this role you will lead, design ... systems if needed Capture and implement technical requirements, such as test harnesses, logging ...

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Design Director, Platform UI

CourtAvenue

Chicago, IL

$159K - $196K/yr

Full-time

Posted 26 days ago

Job description

CourtAvenue is a company of industry experts accelerating digital transformation for the world's most ambitious companies.
 
At CourtAvenue, you will be a part of a culture powered by entrepreneurs, technologists, data scientists and the habitually restless dedicated and energized to design products and services that transform businesses while optimizing them for growth. You will have the opportunity to learn and grow within a culture that values innovation while focusing on redesigning the experience between consumer and service (or product) by leveraging a fluid, seamless, and thoroughly transparent engagement.

At CourtAvenue, the Design Director, Platform UI leads the visual interface layer of our most complex platform engagements, building and evolving the components, design systems, and pixel-level interfaces that ship in production for years on enterprise client work. This is a role for a visual and systems craftsperson who thrives in the constraints of real platforms, real engineering teams, and real users. Not a brand or campaign designer.

You will partner closely with our Experience Strategy team, who own CX, UX, research, and information architecture. They will hand you validated foundations (flows, wireframes, IA) and you will take that work to a finished, system-aware, engineering-ready interface. You will also partner deeply with engineering, product management, and platform architects to ensure design ships at quality and at scale.

The work spans enterprise B2B SaaS, content and commerce platforms, and complex MarTech implementations for clients across telecom, retail, manufacturing, and other regulated enterprise environments. This is not consumer brand or campaign work.

Responsibilities
  • Own the visual interface layer of platform engagements, translating UX foundations from Experience Strategy into production-ready, system-aware UI.
  • Architect, evolve, and govern design systems and component libraries that engineering teams build against in production. Own component standards, design tokens, documentation, versioning, and contribution rituals.
  • Drive visual design quality and craft across typography, color, spacing, iconography, motion, and micro-interactions: the details that distinguish a polished platform from a passable one.
  • Partner deeply with engineering, product management, and platform architects as a peer, not a handoff partner. Participate in technical discussions, design within real platform constraints, and ensure shipped work matches design intent.
  • Partner with Experience Strategy as a defined upstream collaborator. Respect the boundary: they own UX and research; you own UI and visual systems. Push back, elevate, and translate, but do not redo their work.
  • Champion accessibility (WCAG 2.1 AA minimum) as a non-negotiable design discipline embedded in every component, every pattern, every review.
  • Establish and run design critique culture, design system governance, and the rituals that scale design quality across multiple concurrent engagements.
  • Inspire and manage the career growth, education, and skill development of a team of UI designers, including hiring, performance management, and mentorship.
  • Drive organic growth through trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, presenting design rationale and platform vision to executive audiences in their language.
  • Maintain mastery of client presentations and non-creative communication, explaining visual and systems decisions to product, engineering, and business leadership without relying on design jargon.
  • Own quality across long-running engagements, designing for maintainability, scalability, and the next designer who inherits the system.
  • Stay on the pulse of platform UI, design system practice, accessibility standards, and emerging interface patterns; translate that fluency into client recommendations and internal capability.
Requirements
  • 8+ years of experience in digital product design, UI design, or visual/interface design, with at least 3 years specifically focused on product, platform, or B2B SaaS work (not brand, campaign, or marketing design).
  • Demonstrated experience in a design leadership role within an agency, consulting firm, or product company, including direct people management of designers.
  • Strong portfolio of shipped product interfaces, not campaign visuals, brand guidelines, or marketing site work. Case studies should evidence design system thinking, visual craft at the pixel level, and partnership with engineering.
  • Deep experience designing for enterprise platforms, B2B SaaS, MarTech, content and commerce platforms, telecom, financial services, or comparable regulated/enterprise environments. Consumer brand work alone is not a fit.
  • Mastery of Figma, including advanced component architecture, variables, auto-layout, and design system management. Familiarity with Storybook, Zeroheight, or similar design system documentation tools.
  • Working fluency in WCAG 2.1 AA standards and accessibility tooling. Adobe Creative Suite proficiency is a plus, not a requirement.
  • Track record of architecting or significantly contributing to design systems that engineering teams have adopted in production, including governance, versioning, and contribution models.
  • Experience as a downstream partner to UX, research, or experience strategy teams, comfortable receiving wireframes and flows and translating them into final UI without redoing the strategic work.
  • Excellent client-facing communication and the ability to present design rationale, system architecture, and platform vision to senior client stakeholders.
  • Strong organizational skills and the ability to lead design across multiple concurrent enterprise engagements while maintaining quality and team momentum.
  • Digital agency experience and background.
Work Environment

  • Our organization follows a structured-hybrid work model, where employees work in an office environment in the middle of the week and remotely on Mondays and Fridays.

  • Candidates for this position will ideally be located near one of our Midwest or Central offices:

    • Chicago, IL

    • Cincinnati, OH

    • Minneapolis, MN

    • Dallas, TX

  • Candidates near our Los Angeles and San Diego offices will be considered.

 
$150,000 - $180,000 a year
Final compensation will be determined based on total related experience as well as geography of the candidate selected.

CourtAvenue, INC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CourtAvenue recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or genetic information.

CourtAvenue, INC. participates in the E-Verify program. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (I-9) upon hire.


CourtAvenue, INC. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. CourtAvenue recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or genetic information.

CourtAvenue, INC. participates in the E-Verify program. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form (I-9) upon hire.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
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