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UX Designer III, Global Technology

Location
Seattle, WA, United States
Work mode
On-site
Employment type
Full-time

About the job

Company Description “We’re not in the shipping business; we’re in the information business” -Peter Rose, Expeditors Founder Global supply chain management is what we do, but at the heart of Expeditors you will find professionalism, leadership, and a friendly environment, all of which foster an innovative, customer service-based approach to logistics.

  • 18,000 trained professionals
  • 350+ locations worldwide across 60+ countries
  • Fortune 500
  • Globally unified systems

Job Description Why This Role Matters The UX Designer III leads the design of complex workflows, features, and user experiences across digital products, platforms, and services. This role owns design efforts from discovery through delivery, balancing user needs, business objectives, accessibility requirements, and technical constraints to create intuitive, scalable, and accessible experiences. Working with a high degree of independence, this role solves complex design challenges, drives product outcomes, and helps elevate team capabilities through feedback, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. Team and Technology This role serves on the central UX team and partners with one or more product teams based on current organizational needs. You will design across the product spectrum at Expeditors, from customer-facing products to applications used by thousands of employees across the global network. You will partner closely with Technical Product Management and Engineering, using workshops, user research, and Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) to design user workflows and experiences. You will use modern design tools, including Figma and approved AI-enabled tools, and contribute reusable, scalable components to the design system. What Success Looks Like

• Become a trusted partner to Technical Product Management and Engineering. • Deliver intuitive, scalable, and accessible experiences from discovery through implementation. • Improve efficiency, usability, accuracy, and error reduction through design. • Contribute reusable, scalable components to the design system. • Elevate team quality through design reviews, feedback, mentorship, and knowledge sharing. Key Areas of Impact User Research and Insights

• Plan and execute appropriately scoped user research, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative inputs into actionable insights and design direction.

  • Plan and execute appropriately scoped user research, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative inputs into actionable insights and design direction.
  • Identify critical learning objectives, validate assumptions, and translate research findings into recommendations that improve user experience and business outcomes.

• Own complex workflows and multi-step experiences spanning related features, including permissions, exceptions, validation, recovery scenarios, and other real-world cases.

  • Own complex workflows and multi-step experiences spanning related features, including permissions, exceptions, validation, recovery scenarios, and other real-world cases.
  • Create workflows, prototypes, and interaction specifications that minimize implementation ambiguity and reduce cognitive load through effective information architecture and workflow simplification.

• Design and deliver high-quality user experiences for complex enterprise workflows while maintaining visual consistency, usability, and accessibility within supported product areas.

  • Design and deliver high-quality user experiences for complex enterprise workflows while maintaining visual consistency, usability, and accessibility within supported product areas.
  • Integrate accessibility throughout the design process and partner with engineering teams to validate accessibility and design quality during implementation.

• Clarify ambiguous requirements and define design approaches that balance user needs, technical constraints, accessibility requirements, and business priorities.

  • Clarify ambiguous requirements and define design approaches that balance user needs, technical constraints, accessibility requirements, and business priorities.
  • Connect design recommendations to measurable outcomes, including efficiency, usability, and error reduction, while identifying risks and improvement opportunities early.

• Collaborate with Technical Product Managers, engineers, stakeholders, and designers, facilitating workshops and design discussions that resolve ambiguity and support decision-making.

  • Collaborate with Technical Product Managers, engineers, stakeholders, and designers, facilitating workshops and design discussions that resolve ambiguity and support decision-making.
  • Partner with the UX design team to set standards and raise the bar of the UX craft across the organization. Provide timely and actionable feedback while communicating design rationale, tradeoffs, and recommendations clearly.

• Contribute reusable, scalable patterns and components to the design system when product requirements are not supported by existing components.

  • Contribute reusable, scalable patterns and components to the design system when product requirements are not supported by existing components.
  • Partner with design system owners and engineering teams to reduce one-off solutions and promote consistent experiences across related products, features, and workflows.

• Use modern design tools to model complex interactions, workflows, and user behaviors and produce implementation-ready artifacts that improve design-to-development collaboration.

  • Use modern design tools to model complex interactions, workflows, and user behaviors and produce implementation-ready artifacts that improve design-to-development collaboration.
  • Apply an understanding of front-end architecture and leverage approved AI-enabled tools to improve efficiency, quality, and design workflow effectiveness.

• Proactively contribute to design reviews, provide timely and actionable feedback, and mentor less experienced designers through coaching and knowledge sharing.

  • Proactively contribute to design reviews, provide timely and actionable feedback, and mentor less experienced designers through coaching and knowledge sharing.
  • Lead small initiatives, workstreams, or design efforts with limited oversight while improving design practices, standards, documentation, and team processes.

• Develop expertise in logistics workflows, operational processes, and user roles to identify workflow inefficiencies and improve operational outcomes and user productivity.

  • Develop expertise in logistics workflows, operational processes, and user roles to identify workflow inefficiencies and improve operational outcomes and user productivity.
  • Use business context and available data to prioritize improvements and explain how design decisions support efficiency, accuracy, risk reduction, and business objectives.

• Create scalable, user-centered interface content while maintaining terminology consistency across features, workflows, and product experiences.

  • Create scalable, user-centered interface content while maintaining terminology consistency across features, workflows, and product experiences.
  • Design recovery messaging, guidance, and system feedback that support self-service while accounting for localization, readability, and complex workflow requirements.
  • Downtown Seattle
  • Federal Way
  • Lynnwood
  • Bellevue (Factoria)

Qualifications Qualifications for Success Required

• Bachelor’s degree in User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, Product Design, Psychology, Information Architecture, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

  • Bachelor’s degree in User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Graphic Design, Product Design, Psychology, Information Architecture, Computer Science, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Experience leading UX design efforts for complex features, workflows, or products.
  • Experience conducting research, usability validation, prototyping, and interaction design activities.
  • Experience collaborating closely with product management, engineering, and business stakeholders.
  • Experience contributing to design systems, UX standards, or scalable design practices.
  • Experience creating prototypes using modern design tools, including Figma, and leveraging AI in the design process.
  • Advanced understanding of user-centered design, interaction design, usability principles, and accessibility standards.
  • Strong research, synthesis, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Ability to operate independently while balancing multiple priorities and competing constraints.
  • Ability to mentor others and positively influence team outcomes.

• Experience in logistics, supply chain, transportation, or another complex operational domain.

  • Experience in logistics, supply chain, transportation, or another complex operational domain.
  • Experience designing complex enterprise software, operational tools, or workflow-intensive applications.
  • Experience contributing to a modern design system.
  • Advanced Figma skills, including variables, tokens, interactive prototyping, and implementation-ready documentation.
  • Experience leading initiatives or workstreams and representing design with partner teams.
  • Experience designing data visualizations, dashboards, or reporting experiences.

Additional Information Compensation and Benefits Base Salary: $124,000 - $186,000 Benefits: Expeditors offers competitive benefits to all full-time employees including:

• Paid vacation

  • Paid vacation
  • Holidays (10)
  • Flexible Days (2)
  • Paid Sick Time (accrual rate of 1 hour of sick time per 30 hours paid)
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with employer match
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental & Vision Coverage
  • Health Savings Account (HSA)
  • Life and Disability Insurance
  • Paid Parental Leave (additional eligibility criteria)
  • Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (DC FSA)
  • Commuter Benefit
  • Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
  • Training and Personnel Development Program
  • Educational Assistance and Reimbursement
  • Position is full time (40 hours per week) Monday through Friday

From Expeditors's careers page (SmartRecruiters), checked 30 Oct 2026.

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Posted 16 Oct 2026 · checked 30 Oct 2026 · Report this job

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