Lead Product Designer jobs in Chicago, IL

Tegus is the leading market intelligence platform for key decision makers. We power some of the world’s most well-respected institutional investors, corporations, and consultancies through the largest and most comprehensive database of primary and market information. Our products and services enable clients to discover unmatched insights and answers to the most challenging questions they face to help them make better informed decisions. (And because a job description can only contain a fraction of how we operate, click here to learn more about the Tech Team at Tegus!)

As the Lead Product Designer, you will bring world-class interaction design capabilities to our growing team. You will collaborate with key stakeholders to help deliver simple, intuitive experiences around new Financial Documents and features within our leading investment research platform for institutional investors. 

The key user experience challenge you’ll oversee is delivering powerful, intuitive tools that transform our customers' research processes, significantly reducing time spent on manual, tedious tasks. You’ll be trusted to understand users, mindsets, and goals to propose novel, cutting-edge capabilities, taking full advantage of our product and engineering teams’ ability to harness AI and advanced data management.

• Design and deliver high-quality cohesive user experience proposals that achieve target outcomes.
• Drive outcomes and map UX opportunities to customer and business needs.
• Partner with Product and Engineering counterparts, as well as internal stakeholders to execute projects.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders on establishing and interpreting feature adoption metrics.
• Utilize and contribute to our visual design language and internal Design System.
• Perform customer research to discover insights and validate usefulness and usability.
• Work iteratively and collaboratively to solve for all internal and external feedback.
• Serve as a thought leader and mentor, setting new standards for other product designers.
• Establish clear frameworks and design processes around copywriting and content design.
• Mentor other designers and foster a supportive environment for growth and collaboration.

• At least 5 years of experience designing digital products, with an emphasis on skilled in wireframing of diverse directions, captivating stakeholders with a range of concepts/paradigms.
• Expert in developing User Types and Mental Models, and delivering actionable artifacts for them.
• Expert in identifying key use cases and aligning teams on User Task Flows.
• Skilled in crafting flexible and user-friendly navigation for complex platforms with extensive content.
• Clear communicator and impactful storyteller with customers and internal stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker who can successfully contribute to developing opportunity maps.
• Highly adaptable, persistent, and resilient.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans. 401K plan with an employer match.
• Paid parental leave for all parents.
• Unlimited paid vacation, flexible work hours, and 10 observed paid holidays per year.
• Employer funded long-term disability.
• Award-winning culture with regular team-wide events designed to foster connections and promote creativity.
• Generous employee referral bonus program.
• The opportunity to attend peer-nominated quarterly DEI events.
• Working for a thriving, performance-based company that values promoting from within, career advancement and transparency.
• Work from our state of the art office in the heart of Chicago’s Loop featuring standing desks, nursing parent rooms, gender neutral bathrooms, subsidized gym access, and full amenity floor.
• Commuter benefits & a fully stocked kitchen with rotating snacks and beverages.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Tegus we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

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