Senior Product Designer

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

As a leading industrial distributor with operations primarily in North America, Japan and the United Kingdom, We Keep The World Working® by serving more than 4.5 million customers worldwide with products delivered through innovative technology and deep customer relationships. With 2023 sales of $16.5 billion, we’re dedicated to providing value for customers, fostering an engaging culture for team members and driving strong financial results.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a 2024 Glassdoor Best Place to Work and a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry over our next 100 years.

Position Details:

Grainger Insights presents data and information to our users through robust reporting tools and actionable dashboards. The Senior Product Designer for Grainger Insights will use well-developed interaction and visual design skills to create software with robust filtering capabilities allowing our users to search, consume, and manipulate data. This is a full-spectrum UX interaction design role - from research and solution design to final UI deliverables and testing. You will be working with agile sprint teams with an emphasis on team collaboration. 

This is a unique opportunity to employ high-tech software and service design within a top-rated, well-established industrial supplier. You will report to the Senior Manager of UX Design for Grainger Insights. 

You Will: 

• Work with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Engineers, and QA to design experiences for Grainger customers and internal users 

• Create design concepts, customer journeys, and pixel perfect design deliverables. 

• Translate requirements and user needs into tangible interaction designs through annotated wireframes and visual designs 

• Leverage and contribute to Grainger’s design system documentation 

• Understand technical and business constraints and scale designs for iterative release, ensuring user needs are met in each iteration 

• Evaluate current experiences and provide recommendations for improvement 

• Conduct user research, evaluative user testing, session replay analysis and secondary research to improve experiences 

• Communicate design decisions, rationale, and direction when presenting work 

• Collaborate with the UX team to align patterns across products 

• Develop concepts to help test new, innovative ideas  

• Actively seek out feedback from other UI Designers, UX Designers and UX leadership on UX design concepts and deliverables to ensure the best solution is created. 

• Lead review sessions of in progress work with partners (product managers, engineers, business stakeholders), UX team, and UX leadership 

You Have: 

• 5+ years experience as a UX/UI designer or product designer  

• Formal education in Human Centered Design, Design Methods, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) or related field, or equivalent experience 

• Expertise in information design, UX design, usability, and accessibility 

• Proficiency in responsive web design best practices 

• Experience visualizing complex data and creating Infographics 

• Experience using and contributing to pattern libraries and comprehensive design systems 

• Strong proficiency in Figma, UX and component libraries 

• Work sample or portfolio that demonstrates expertise in product design 

• Prior experience with eCommerce and data-centric products is a plus 

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment.  With this in mind, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.