Sr Designer, UI/UX

Senior UI/UX Designer

At KeHE, we're obsessed with creating solutions, unboxing potential, and serving others and it all starts with you. As an employee-owned distributor of natural and organic, specialty, and fresh products, we're committed to making a positive impact and scaling our success together. With a culture that fosters development and opportunity, you'll be embarking on a career that's moving forward. When you join KeHE, you're becoming part of a team that is a force for good.

The Senior UI/UX Designer partners with our engineers, product managers, business analysts, and business stakeholders to oversee all user experience and design operations across applications. As an integral part of Digital Experience Team (DEX), you will also own the process of creating a cohesive ecosystem throughout applications by managing and maintaining a living style guide and a pattern library. As an advocate of KeHE's UI design system, you practice consistency and creativity across multiple product teams and guide the execution to align with KeHE's vision.

Embedded within the product and engineering teams, the Senior UX/UI Designer facilitates design thinking workshops, creates and carries out research plans, and designs interactive and visual design solutions including wireframes, UI design comps, specifications, and interactive prototypes. This critical team member enables the delivery of high-quality enterprise and customer facing products, rapidly and iteratively. As a senior member of the team, they mentor UI/UX resources within the organization and make sure the team is effectively utilizing UI and UX best practices and adhere to brand standards. As with all positions at KeHE, we expect that all actions will be consistent with KeHE's Mission, Vision and Values.

Essential Functions

• Design elegant, thoughtful solutions for complex workflows through the use of type, hierarchy, interactions, and design patterns.
• Assure design quality by collaborating closely with design team, developers, product owners, and business analysts to write clear and detailed specs.
• Co-Own KeHE's design system; maintain and updating our pattern library, living style guide and Sketch (soon to be Figma) component library.
• Develop and define UI standards and advocate for UI/UX best practices.
• Effectively communicate design decisions to product and leadership teams.
• Function as the product owner for KeHE's design system; partner with internal stakeholders and product owners to prioritize stories and manage the backlog in preparation for development.
• Prioritize UI project schedules and deliverables across multiple products.
• Conduct competitive research, discovery research and usability studies.
• Facilitate research sessions to identify business, user, and technical requirements.
• Use modern UX methodologies and techniques to inspire design thinking and create supporting documentation including personas, customer journeys, task flows, site maps, UI specifications & requirements, prototypes/wireframes.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Business Systems Analysts, and Developers to define and translate business and functional requirements into user-friendly and technically optimal/feasible designs.
• Design and conduct usability studies to ensure designs are intuitive and easy-to-use.
• Demonstrate UI/UX best practices in product teams.
• Coach and mentor team members.
• Stay current with UX, visual design, best practices and front-end technologies.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Minimum Requirements, Qualifications, Additional Skills, Aptitude

• Familiarity with current front-end web technologies, native interface guidelines, web services, and APIs
• Strong technical proficiency with design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Invision, and Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Must have a design-making mentality
• Ability to scope and estimate efforts, prioritize tasks and goals, and rapidly produce deliverables in a fast-paced iterative environment
• Acts with empathy and curiosity; listens and seeks to understand
• Passionate mindset with positive intent
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment and must be able to work well with others

Education And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Design (Graphic, Interaction, Visual, and Digital), Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Information Architecture, Marketing, or related UX field is preferred
• Minimum 5+ years experience in UI Design and UX Strategy for web, mobile, and application design
• Proficiency with Figma Libraries and design system component management
• Experience with Agile sprint-based cadence
• Portfolio of work is required
• Leadership experience a plus
• Experience using HTML, CSS, Javascript
• Experience with lean UX and just in time design cycles

Physical Requirements

• These physical demands are representative of the physical requirements necessary for an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.

Requisition ID 2025-27242 Equal Employer Opportunity Statement KeHE Distributors provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits all forms of discrimination and harassment on the basis of race, color, religion or faith, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training as well as the administration of all Human Resources and Talent Acquisition processes.