The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  Illinois Tool Works is hiring a UX Designer in Brownsville, TX.

• Role description

  Before the deck, before the launch, before the applause, there's the idea, and Illinois Tool Works wants an UX Designer who lives at that first spark. This UX Designer role at Illinois Tool Works rewards initiative with $54,000 - $74,000, real decision-making power, and steady career advancement.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Keep the unpretentious brand promise intact while every channel demands its own dialect
  • Wring narrative clarity from a feature list three product managers fought over
  • Own the full creative process from initial brief to final handoff
  • Generate concepts for temporary campaigns spanning paid, owned, and earned media
  • Sketch early concepts that give Illinois Tool Works campaigns a recognizable visual signature
  • Frame the design rationale so mid-level approvers feel smart agreeing with you
  • Choreograph the handoff so nothing quality-obsessed gets lost between studio and dev
  • Uphold the Illinois Tool Works brand as its standards scale across new products and markets

  What You'll Bring

  • Comfort presenting to a TX-wide audience without a script
  • The reliability that lets a manager stop checking in
  • Calm under the fast-moving chaos a mid-level role tends to generate
  • Storytelling instincts that turn data into a decision
  • Demonstrated comfort presenting to mid-level leadership
  • 5 years that taught you which corners can be cut

  Plenty of firms claim to do creative; Illinois Tool Works actually does it, and from Brownsville no less, with a maker-minded stubbornness about quality. You'll find a flat structure where the best argument wins, regardless of title.

  We pair $54,000 - $74,000 with a seasoned mentor, so your Cross-Functional Collaboration sharpens fast while the benefits quietly take care of everything else.

  Our hiring manager is personally reviewing every UX Designer application that comes in.

  The candidates who apply early at Illinois Tool Works are the ones we remember, so be early.

• Required skills

  • Webflow
  • Brand Identity
  • Framer
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Usability Testing
  • Flexibility
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Benefits & perks

  • Diversity and inclusion programs
  • 20% time for personal projects
  • Internet Reimbursement
  • Core hours flexibility
  • Outplacement services
  • Paternity Leave
  • Patent and innovation bonuses
  • Massage Therapy

• Apply before 2026-09-06

  Submit your application for this Temporary creative position.