The opportunity timeline

• Overview

  InnovateLab is hiring a UX/UI Designer in Iowa City, IA.

• Role description

  We're not filling an UX/UI Designer seat so much as inviting a point of view, and InnovateLab hopes yours, backed by 5 years, is the one walking in. Reduce it to essentials and you have $61,000 - $83,000, an IA UX/UI Designer seat, 5 years asked, and a clear climb ahead.

  Key Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain a cohesive brand identity across every customer touchpoint
  • Test headline rhythm by reading every option aloud before shipping one
  • Ensure all deliverables meet brand, accessibility, and platform standards
  • Drive mission-driven content series from ideation to publication and promotion
  • Design on-brand visual concepts across digital and print channels for InnovateLab

  What You'll Bring

  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Sound instincts for reading a room you've never been in before
  • An Iowa City grounding, or the adaptability to plant roots quickly
  • Around 4+ years of hands-on experience in a creative role
  • The kind of attention to detail that catches what spell-check misses
  • Comfort with the freelance cadence of an Iowa City-based operation

  Our Iowa City, IA headquarters is home to a spirited-and-grounded group of builders, designers, and problem-solvers at InnovateLab. We look out for one another, and burnout is treated as a problem to solve, not a badge to wear.

  Pair your Heuristic Evaluation with our $61,000 - $83,000, our mentors, our benefits, and our flexible Iowa City, IA culture, and the math works in your favor.

  Our recruiters are reaching out to qualified UX/UI Designer applicants every day this month.

  Don't wait for the perfect moment to switch into creative work, because it's right now.

• Required skills

  • Miro
  • Maze
  • Atomic Design
  • Card Sorting
  • Mobile-First Design
  • Framer
  • Service Design
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Color Theory
  • Design Thinking
  • Critical Thinking
  • Empathy
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Flexibility

• Benefits & perks

  • Company retreats
  • Company-wide holiday shutdown
  • Fitness class subsidies
  • Inclusive benefits for LGBTQ+ employees
  • Outplacement services
  • Pension Plan

• Apply before 2026-08-27

  Submit your application for this Freelance creative position.