Senior Designer (Remote)

Senior Designer | Grand Studio | United States

**WE BELIEVE SUCCESS IS A SHARED VENTURE** Everything we do, we believe in helping people succeed. By helping our clients put their people, partners, and customers first, we seek to address unique and complex challenges on a personal level, because when we do we know greater success will be achieved by all.

**Our Benefits and Perks**

When it comes to benefits, we take care of our team.

**INCLUSIVE HEALTH BENEFITS**

We offer 100% employer-paid health, dental and vision, generous parental leave policy, access to Teledoc, FSA and DFSA, life, supplemental life & AD&D coverage.

**COMPETITIVE SALARY & PROFIT SHARING**

We are committed to transparent salary paths, always re-evaluating the market norms for pay scales. In addition when our company does well, so do you! We offer profit-sharing perks for everyone.

**401K WITH MATCH**

We want to help you plan for your future so with every dollar invested in your 401K. We match a percentage to help you reach your goals faster!

**FLEXIBLE TIME OFF**

We believe in a reasonable work-life balance, so taking time off of work is encouraged. We want you at your best during team projects.

**HEALTH & WELLNESS PERKS**

We have a partnership with Peleton and an EAP to keep your body and your mind healthy.

**AFTER HOURS MEALS & TRANSPORTATION**

**REMOTE WORK**

We are set up to work from our office in Chicago complete with commuter benefits, to work from home, or anywhere in the US-your choice. We want you to be in an environment that empowers you to do your best work.

**LEARNING & GROWTH**

Your career and goals matter. Every employee is matched with a Career Manager to help them get the most out of every experience, and we give you an annual budget to ramp up your skills!

**FOOD & FUN**

We continue to make our designers happy with fun team events, food, celebrations, and more!

**Senior Research Designer (Contract Pool)**

Remote Contracted Mid Level **Senior Designer // Research + Insights (Contract)**

**This role is for our contract pool. We qualify freelance designers and find the right projects for their skills.**

At Grand Studio, our teams collaborate to explore digital products and services in a consulting environment. At our studio, not only do our designers, both full-time and contract, contribute to the success of client projects, everyone is invited to help build our culture and design practice with us. That means we look for people who care about their craft, care about their teammates, and most importantly, care about humanity.

Our Senior Designers are passionate about finding the right design methodologies to craft unique approaches to challenging client projects. They help project teams with everything from uncovering actionable insights around customers to designing the most compelling digital products and services grounded in user value. They are versatile to help determine project strategy, mentor teammates, and create client deliverables.

We invite you to be a part of the journey of evolving a consultancy fit for designers, built by designers.

**A great Senior UX Designer at Grand Studio often has…**

* Professional design experience (consulting/agency experience is extra handy)

* A rich understanding of the end-to-end design process and evidence of using appropriate methods to inform a UX design system

* Experience in communicating with technology teams and other stakeholder groups

* Comfort in delivering functional specifications and content logic for technology

* The drive and autonomy to work well independently in a remote environment (at least for now!) but also an ease for communication and collaboration during team working sessions

**What you can expect from us…**

* Collaborative and supportive environment

* Staffed 100% to a project for the duration of the contract

* Ability to flex within focus areas and build new skills

* Exploration of all avenues of human-centered design

* Potential to move to a full-time role within the first three months

* Remote friendly events, team and office lunches, and celebrations

**Bring your whole self to work**

Grand Studio believes that teams diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective create better work. We are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone, from any background, feels included and supported to do their best work.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or the interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

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 document form upon hire.

**Please be sure to include work samples, it could be in the form of your website, a PDF, a dropbox link- we don’t care, we just want to see work that shows expertise in designing for complex digital products or services grounded in what’s possible, what’s helpful and what the business can support. All submissions without this will not be considered.**