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Digital Designer - UX/UI Design

Creative Circle
Chicago, IL Contractor
POSTED ON 1/1/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/11/2026
Our client in the travel industry, is looking for a Visual Designer to help our Customer UX team communicate ideas with clarity, creativity, and visual impact. In this role, you'll transform complex design concepts, research insights, and strategies into compelling visual narratives, helping teams and stakeholders align around a shared vision.

You'll design presentations, iconography, and illustrations that elevate storytelling across product, research, and design initiatives. This is a highly collaborative role that blends visual craft, systems thinking, and storytelling to make design work more engaging and understandable across the organization.

Responsibilities

  • Design compelling presentations for UX reviews, research readouts, and executive communications.
  • Translate design concepts and strategies into clear, visual stories that communicate intent and impact.
  • Create iconography, diagrams, and illustrations to support UX documentation, product concepts, and design systems.
  • Collaborate with UX Designers, Researchers, and Stakeholders to visualize findings, frameworks, and design principles.
  • Maintain and evolve visual storytelling standards within the design system, ensuring alignment with product and brand.
  • Craft clear, succinct visual stories in the form of storyboards or videos that distill insights and data from multiple sources into engaging narratives.
  • Develop reusable templates and visual frameworks that help teams tell their stories efficiently and consistently.
  • Champion visual communication as a tool for collaboration, understanding, and influence within the UX organization.

Qualifications/Education

  • 2-5 years of experience in Communication Design, Visual Design, or related fields ideally within UX or product organizations.
  • A strong portfolio showcasing presentation design, iconography, and visual storytelling for digital experiences.
  • Proficiency in Figma and Adobe Creative Suite (especially Illustrator and Photoshop).
  • Ability to translate abstract concepts into accessible visual frameworks.
  • Excellent sense of layout, hierarchy, typography, and color.
  • Experience with motion graphics or prototyping tools (After Effects, Principle, etc.) is a plus.

In this position, you may have access to client or customer systems, confidential and/or proprietary information or data. This position is onsite and requires you to work closely with other individuals in a collaborative team environment.

Benefits

Creative Circle's Freelance Employee benefits package includes eligibility for Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) medical plan, dental/vision/term life package, discount prescription program, critical illness, accident, tele-behavioral health, and 401(k) plan. Sick leave is provided to Candidates whose assignment work location is in a state or city subject to sick leave laws. A Minimum Value (MV) PPO medical plan, Employee Stock Purchase Plan, and paid holiday eligibility are based on length and dates of service.

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alexa.kline@jobalert.creativecircle.com

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Alexa Kline - Recruiter, National Delivery

For Creative Circle to represent you for this opportunity, you must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need of employer sponsorship for a non-immigrant visa such as a H-1B, TN, or O visa. We do not support or provide training for STEM/OPT programs. Additionally, you must be physically located in and perform the work for our client in the United States.

This job was first posted by Creative Circle on 11/13/2025 and applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the position is filled or closed.

Creative Circle is an Equal Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Creative Circle will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local law, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. If you need a reasonable accommodation in the application process, please contact your Recruiter (the person you'll be interviewing with) or a member of our Human Resources team to make arrangements. United Healthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Creative Circle.

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