UX Designer

Koch; Wichita (KS); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

medical

dental

vision

flexible spending and health savings

life insurance

ADD

disability

retirement

paid vacation/time off

educational assistance

infertility assistance

paid parental leave

adoption assistance

Job summary

Koch is seeking a UX Designer with UX Engineering capability to join our AI Innovation and Design team. This role blends strong UX craft with front-end development workflows to turn ambiguous product needs into intuitive digital experiences.

You will create digital experiences, apply design system patterns, and build high-fidelity prototypes while collaborating with product managers, engineers, stakeholders, and other designers.

Qualifications

• Experience creating web, software, or product design artifacts (wireframes, mockups, prototypes, user flows).
• Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, stakeholders to design and deliver digital experiences.
• Knowledge of front-end development concepts (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive layouts, design-to-code handoff).
• Experience using prototyping and AI tools to accelerate design exploration and interface development.

Responsibilities

• Create intuitive, high-quality web and product designs that support business processes and user needs.
• Apply design-system components and accessibility considerations to create consistent experiences.
• Develop wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and specifications to align product and engineering teams.
• Contribute to front-end development by understanding web structures and collaborating with engineers on implementation details.
• Translate business, user, and technical input into practical design solutions balancing usability and feasibility.
• Demonstrate hands-on mindset with rapid exploration and iteration.

Skills

UX design artifacts

Cross-functional collaboration

Front-end concepts

Prototyping & AI tools

Tools

Design systems

React/TypeScript

Job description

Your Job

Koch is seeking a UX Designer with UX Engineering capability to join our Koch Technology AI Innovation and Design team. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys turning ambiguous product needs into intuitive, usable digital experiences and is excited by the opportunity to blend strong UX design craft with front-end development workflows.

In this role, you will create digital and product experiences, contribute to and apply design system patterns, and build high-fidelity prototypes while collaborating with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, and other designers.

Our Team

The AI Innovation and Design team partners across Koch to improve digital tools, internal products, and employee and customer experiences. Our work blends UX design, prototyping, design systems, emerging technology, and practical experimentation to help teams move from idea to usable product experiences.

Location

This role can be located in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / Plano, TX and requires an in office presence with flexibility.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship.

What You Will Do

• Create intuitive, high-quality web and product designs that support business processes and user needs.
• Apply design-system components, interaction patterns, accessibility considerations, and UX best practices to create consistent and scalable digital experiences.
• Develop wireframes, user flows, prototypes, and design specifications that help product and engineering teams align before and during implementation.
• Contribute to front-end development by understanding basic web structures, using AI-assisted tools to refine interface code, and collaborating with engineers on implementation details.
• Translate business, user, and technical input into practical design solutions that balance usability, feasibility, speed, and quality.
• Bring a resourceful, hands-on mindset to projects where the right answer may require rapid exploration, iteration, and learning.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience creating web, software, or product design artifacts (I.e. wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, user flows, or design specifications).
• Experience collaborating with product managers, engineers, business stakeholders, or cross-functional teams to design and deliver digital experiences.
• Demonstrated knowledge of front-end development concepts (i.e. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, responsive layouts, components, or design-to-code handoff).
• Experience using prototyping and AI tools to accelerate design exploration, interface development, and product iteration.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience designing enterprise software, internal tools, workflow applications, dashboards, portals, or B2B digital products.
• Experience using or contributing to a design system, component library, or reusable UI pattern library.
• Experience creating interactive prototypes that simulate realistic product behavior or front-end interactions.
• Familiarity with modern front-end frameworks or libraries such as React, TypeScript, Tailwind, or component-based UI development.
• An understanding of technical architecture of web applications, experience with AWS or other cloud services, experience with Git version control.
• Experience partnering directly with engineers to improve design handoff, implementation quality, or front-end usability.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers.

Who We Are

Koch creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs about 120,000 employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• adoption assistance

Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location.