Senior User Experience Designer

Senior UX Designer

Contract, 1 year

Hybrid, 2x a week in Minneapolis, MN

Rate: $50-80/hr W2 benefits

Position Overview: As a UX Designer on the internal tools team, you’ll help shape intuitive, efficient tools that support how products move from concept to shelf. You’ll collaborate with a Lead UX Designer and the Sr. Manager to bring human-centered design practices into every phase of the work — from understanding user needs to crafting and testing solutions that drive measurable outcomes.

This role is for a hands-on designer who thrives on execution and evaluation. You’ll use strong UX methods to translate user insights into elegant, usable experiences and to ensure the tools we deliver genuinely solve the right problems.

Responsibilities:

· Partner with the Lead UX Designer and Sr. Manager to translate product goals into clear UX direction.

· Conduct user discovery to understand problems and workflows in depth.

· Develop elegant, robust solutions that balance business goals, technical constraints, and user needs.

· Create UX artifacts such as user flows, information architectures, wireframes, and problem statements.

· Plan and track your work in Jira, collaborating closely with cross-functional partners in Product and Engineering.

· Design with rigor — minding details beyond the happy path, including error states, edge cases, and data variability.

· Conduct user discovery to understand problems and workflows in depth.

· Use data to analyze how users interact with existing experiences and identify pain points or opportunities.

· Test design concepts and prototypes with users to gather feedback and validate assumptions

· Balance qualitative and quantitative methods to inform design decisions.

· Collaborate with Research partners to frame hypotheses, evaluate outcomes, and measure design impact.

Must Have Skills:

• 4 years in UX Product Design
• Design Collaboration
• Design Facilitation
• Enterprise Software Design
• Experience in Jira
• Expert in Figma
• Information Architecture Design
• Interaction Design
• User Research
• UX Visual Design
• Web Accessibility

Required Qualifications

• 4 years in UX Product Design
• Demonstrated ability to execute UX design through a full product lifecycle — from problem definition to delivery and iteration.
• Demonstrates human-centered design thinking and a clear design process.
• Demonstrates a range of design fidelities and intentional use of fidelity.
• Strong grounding in UX methods, including journey mapping, workflow design, and usability testing.
• Experience working collaboratively in agile environments using tools like Jira and Figma.

Skills

• Expertise in Figma
• Interaction design
• Information architecture
• Conducting user research and synthesizing findings into actionable insights.
• Excellent collaboration, communication, and presentation skills.
• Attention to detail
• Accessibility & inclusive design.

Benefits:

York Solutions Offers a generous benefits package for eligible full-time employees:

• BCBS Medical with 3 Plans to choose from (PPO and High deductible PPO plans with Health Savings Program)
• Delta Dental plan with 2 free cleanings and insurance discounts
• Eye Med Vision with annual check-ups and discounts on lens
• Life and Accidental Death Insurance paid by company
• John Hancock 401(k) Retirement Plan with discretionary company match
• Voluntary Insurance programs such as: Hospital Indemnity, Identity Protection, Legal Insurance, Long Term Care, and Pet Insurance.
• Flexible work environment with some remote working opportunities
• Strong fun and teamwork environment
• Learning, development, and career growth