What are the responsibilities and job description for the UX Designer position at Koch?
Your Job
Koch is seeking a UX Designer with UX Engineering capability to join our Koch Technology AI Innovation and Design team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning ambiguous product needs into intuitive, usable digital experiences and is excited by the opportunity to blend strong UX design craft with front-end development workflows.
In this role, you will create digital and product experiences, contribute to and apply design system patterns, and build high-fidelity prototypes while collaborating with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, and other designers.
Our Team
The AI Innovation and Design team partners across Koch to improve digital tools, internal products, and employee and customer experiences. Our work blends UX design, prototyping, design systems, emerging technology, and practical experimentation to help teams move from idea to usable product experiences.
Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX and requires an in office presence with flexibility.
This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship
What You Will Do
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Koch is seeking a UX Designer with UX Engineering capability to join our Koch Technology AI Innovation and Design team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning ambiguous product needs into intuitive, usable digital experiences and is excited by the opportunity to blend strong UX design craft with front-end development workflows.
In this role, you will create digital and product experiences, contribute to and apply design system patterns, and build high-fidelity prototypes while collaborating with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, and other designers.
Our Team
The AI Innovation and Design team partners across Koch to improve digital tools, internal products, and employee and customer experiences. Our work blends UX design, prototyping, design systems, emerging technology, and practical experimentation to help teams move from idea to usable product experiences.
Location: This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX and requires an in office presence with flexibility.
This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship
What You Will Do
- Create intuitive, high-quality web and product designs that support business processes and user needs.
- Apply design-system components, interaction patterns, accessibility considerations, and UX best practices to create consistent and scalable digital experiences.
- Develop wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and design specifications that help product and engineering teams align before and during implementation.
- Contribute to front-end development by understanding basic web structures, using AI-assisted tools to refine interface code, and collaborating with engineers on implementation details.
- Translate business, user, and technical input into practical design solutions that balance usability, feasibility, speed, and quality.
- Bring a resourceful, hands-on mindset to projects where the right answer may require rapid exploration, iteration, and learning.
- Experience creating web, software, or product design artifacts (I.e. wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, user flows, or design specifications).
- Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, or cross-functional teams to design and deliver digital experiences.
- Demonstrated knowledge of front-end development concepts (i.e. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive layouts, components, or design-to-code handoff).
- Experience using prototyping and AI tools to accelerate design exploration, interface development, and product iteration.
- Experience designing enterprise software, internal tools, workflow applications, dashboards, portals, or B2B digital products.
- Experience using or contributing to a design system, component library, or reusable UI pattern library.
- Experience creating interactive prototypes that simulate realistic product behavior or front-end interactions.
- Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks or libraries such as React, TypeScript, Tailwind, or component-based UI development.
- An understanding of technical architecture of web applications, experience with AWS or other cloud services, experience with Git version control.
- Experience partnering directly with engineers to improve design handoff, implementation quality, or front-end usability.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).