Senior UX Designer

W. W. Grainger; Lake Forest (IL); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 173,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, and life ins.

PTO and company holidays

401(k) retirement plan with company 6%

Tuition reimbursement

Maternity and parental leave

Employee discounts

Financial counseling

Job summary

Grainger is seeking a Senior Product Designer to join the Sales Domain UX team. You will craft multichannel experiences, translate requirements into annotated wireframes and visuals, and contribute to Grainger’s design system while collaborating across product, engineering, and QA teams.

You have 5+ years in UX/UI or product design, with a strong portfolio in data-centric products, responsive design, and accessible interfaces. Hybrid work model offered at Grainger.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a UX/UI designer or product designer.
• Formal education in Human Centered Design, Design Methods, or HCI, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise in information design, UX, usability, and accessibility.
• Proficiency in responsive web design practices.
• Experience visualizing complex data and creating infographics.
• Experience using pattern libraries and design systems.

Responsibilities

• Work with Product Managers, Engineers, and QA to design experiences for Grainger Sellers and internal users.
• Translate requirements into annotated wireframes and visual designs.
• Leverage Grainger’s design system and contribute to pattern libraries.
• Scale designs to iterative releases while meeting user needs.
• Evaluate experiences and provide improvement recommendations.
• Conduct usability studies and user testing to refine designs.
• Communicate design decisions and rationale clearly to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the UX team to align patterns across products.

Skills

UX/UI design

Product design

Design systems

Data visualization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design or related field

Tools

Figma

Job description

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Location: LAKE FOREST, IL, US, 60045-5202 CHICAGO, IL, US, 60654-4203

Work Location Type: Hybrid

About Grainger

W.W. Grainger, Inc. is a leading broad line distributor with operations primarily in North America and Japan. At Grainger, We Keep the World Working®by serving more than4.6 million customersworldwide with maintenance, repair andoperating(MRO) products and value-added solutions delivered through innovative technology and deep customerexpertise. Known for its commitment to service and purpose-driven culture, the Company reported2025 revenue of$17.9 billion. For more information, visitwww.grainger.com.

Compensation

The anticipated base pay compensation range for this position is $103,600.00 – $172,600.00. This role is eligible for an incentive target of up to 10 % or $ , based on the achievement of individual and company performance objectives in accordance with the current terms of the incentive program which are subject to change.

Rewards and Benefits

With benefits starting on day one, our programs provide choice and flexibility to meet team members' individual needs, including:

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance plans with coverage starting on day one of employment and 6 free sessions each year with a licensed therapist to support your emotional wellbeing.
• 18 paid time off (PTO) days annually for full-time employees (accrual prorated based on employment start date) and 6 company holidays per year.
• 6% company contribution to a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan each pay period, no employee contribution required.
• Employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing and free access to financial counseling, education, and tools.
• Maternity support programs, nursing benefits, and up to 14 weeks paid leave for birth parents and up to 4 weeks paid leave for non-birth parents.

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The pay range provided above is not a guarantee of compensation. The range reflects the potential base pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual base pay compensation will depend, in part, on factors such as geographic work location and relevant experience and skills.

The anticipated compensation range described above is subject to change and the compensation ultimately paid may be higher or lower than the range described above.

Grainger reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion at any time, consistent with applicable law.

At Grainger we keep the world working, and the Grainger Technology Group is an especially exciting place to be. We are creating and building systems to keep Grainger a Fortune 500 company and one of the Top 100 Places to Work, and to extend our market leadership for the next 100 years.

Our Sales Domain UX Team designs connected, seller-facing experiences that make work simpler and more effective for our sales team. We focus on reducing friction, improving visibility, and streamlining key workflows so sellers and sales leaders can find what they need, act quickly, and stay aligned as they manage requests, coverage, alerts, and other core sales activities. The Senior Product Designer will use well-developed interaction and visual design skills to create multichannel software solutions with robust 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 Sales.

You Will:

Work with Product Managers, Engineers, and QA to design experiences for Grainger Sellers and our internal users

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 session replay analysis, evaluate secondary research, and help with user research and evaluative user testing, 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 (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work 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, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, including, but not limited to use of our website, any part of the application, interview or hiring process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.