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— Steve Jobs
Creative Lead & User Interface (UI) Designer
Jackson Dawson • Dearborn, United States of America 🇺🇸
The Creative Lead & UI Designer will serve as the design lead across digital products, setting the vision for UI and user experience. They will collaborate with product and engineering teams to create user-friendly digital experiences and ensure that every interaction is purposeful and intuitive.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the design lead across digital products, setting the vision for UI and user experience
- Provide strategic input on product direction while collaborating closely with creative, product, and engineering partners
- Advocate for user-centered design, ensuring usability, accessibility (WCAG compliance), and visual clarity
- Design within existing design systems and evolve our component libraries as needed
- Translate user research and product requirements into low-fidelity wireframes, storyboards, and user journey maps
- Create responsive, high-fidelity UI designs and interactive prototypes in Figma (including micro-interactions and animations)
- Use AI-enabled design tools (e.g., Figma Make, Replit) to quickly iterate concepts and gather team feedback
- Visualize complex data through clean, comprehensible designs (charts, dashboards, etc.)
- Contribute to brand-consistent digital design across product, web, and marketing touchpoints
- Work closely with product managers to prioritize features and refine requirements
- Partner with front-end developers to ensure pixel-perfect implementation
- Deliver annotated final designs for smooth engineering handoff
- Actively recommend innovative features, UI enhancements, and engagement opportunities
- Present design rationale clearly, tailoring the level of detail to different stakeholders
- Confidently articulate the role of UI design versus graphic design in the product development process
- Proactively schedule design reviews and syncs with cross-functional partners
- Manage multiple projects, tracking timelines and deliverables independently
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in UI design for digital products
- Degree in Design, HCI, or related field preferred
- Strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design process
- Expert in Figma with experience in design systems and prototyping
- Knowledge of user-centered design principles and responsive/adaptive design best practices
- Strong eye for typography, color, layout, and data visualization
- Comfortable working in a highly collaborative, design-driven product team
- Skilled at balancing multiple priorities and managing timelines
About Jackson Dawson
We are an entrepreneurial agency of leaders, creators, innovators and makers dedicated to our core belief that with great ideas, hard work and mutual trust, anything is possible. Our mission is to serve our clients with creativity, integrity and excellence by delivering solutions that embrace the techniques of today and design the experiences of tomorrow. Our extensive in-house capabilities reflect over 45 years of experience in creating turnkey solutions for our clients. Since opening our doors in 1980, Jackson Dawson has become a leader and pioneer in the fields of marketing, worldwide product and culture training, design and fabrication, luxury hospitality, large corporate workshops and consumer experiences — with footprints of more than one million square feet. Over the last 45+ years, Jackson Dawson has built relationships on a foundation of integrity and service. To our clients, we are longstanding partners, and for decades they have trusted us with their brands, their products
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