UX Designer

Rewards Network

UX Designer designing user-centered experiences connecting dining members with partner restaurants at Rewards Network. This hybrid role demands in-office presence in Chicago for collaboration and design processes.

Posted 6/30/2026full-timeChicago • Illinois • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $110,000 - $120,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AndroidiOS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own UX end-to-end for complex consumer and merchant products — discovery through dev handoff and post-launch iteration.
Partner with Product and Engineering on both a near-term roadmap and a long-term strategic vision, balancing user needs with business, technical, and compliance constraints.
Plan and run user research — discovery, usability tests, concept tests — and iterate from telemetry and qualitative feedback.
Translate business goals and user insights into flows, IA, and interaction patterns.
Own and evolve the design system across consumer and merchant surfaces; building a design-system framework and reserving customer design for genuinely new or distinctive features; raise the quality bar across design, research, and content while streamlining process.
Present design work, methodology, and value to executive leadership and cross-functional partners; secure buy-in for solution direction.
Collaborate with Engineering through build and design QA; align in-product experience with Marketing/Lifecycle and partner brand standards.
Mentor peers, set elevated standards for design quality, and drive knowledge sharing across the org.
Design to WCAG 2.1 AA by default; fluent in Figma.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Product instincts and user empathy.
AI-assisted design fluency; clear on where AI helps and where it doesn’t.
User-centered design: research, usability testing, heuristic evaluation, journey mapping, prototyping.
Visual craft: typography, color, layout, hierarchy, motion.
WCAG 2.1 AA in practice.
Agile delivery tools: JIRA, Confluence, FigJam/Miro, Maze/UserTesting.
Can present and defend design decisions to leadership and partners.
Bachelor's in Design, HCI, Visual Design, or related field-or equivalent experience
3-5 years of UX/product design shipping consumer or B2B SaaS products across native (iOS/Android) and web platforms.
Designed within external partner brand standards (airline, hotel, retail, financial loyalty/membership, or similar) where guidelines aren't yours to set.
Significantly contributed to or owned a design system at scale using Figma.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive Paid Time Off and company holidays
Generous dining reimbursement when you dine with our restaurant clients
401(k) plan with a company match
Two medical plan options- Standard PPO or High Deductible Health Plan (HSA with company match for HDHP participants)
Partnership with Rx n Go, offering certain prescriptions for free
Two dental plan options and a vision plan
Flexible Spending Accounts and a pre-tax commuter benefit program
Accident, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity Insurance Plans
Short Term and Long Term disability
Company-paid life insurance and AD&D insurance, supplemental employee, spouse, and child life insurance
Employee Life Assistance Program
Hybrid working space in our state of the art office downtown located by the Metra and Ogilvie train stations
Catered lunches provided on Tuesday's in our Chicago office

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Hard Skills & Tools

User ResearchUsability TestingPrototypingVisual DesignInteraction PatternsJourney MappingHeuristic EvaluationTypographyColor TheoryLayout Design

Soft Skills

User EmpathyCollaborationPresentation SkillsMentoringStakeholder Engagement

Certifications

Bachelor's in DesignHCIVisual Design