REQUEST NUMBER: C-L-TO6-UIUX
LABOR CATEGORY: UI/UX Specialist
PERFORMANCE LEVEL: Senior
CLEARANCE REQUIRED: TS/SCI with Poly
WORK LOCATION: Herndon
WORK DESCRIPTION:REQUIRED: TS/SCI with Poly. We are looking for a user-experience (UX) designer able to understand our customer requirements and any technical limitations, as well as be responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, user flows, customer journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and prototypes. The UX designer will also be expected to help design the overall functionality of the application, and to ensure a great user experience, iterate upon it in accordance with user-testing.
What You’ll Get to Do
- Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and engineers
- Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps
- Design graphic user interface elements, like menus, tabs, and widgets
- Build page navigation buttons and search fields
- Develop UI mockups and prototypes that clearly illustrate how sites function and look like
- Create original graphic designs (e.g. images, sketches and tables)
- Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders
- Identify and troubleshoot UX problems (e.g. responsiveness)
- Conduct layout adjustments based on user feedback
- Facilitate the client’s product vision by researching conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.
- Design and deliver wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and mockups optimized for a wide range of devices and interfaces.
- Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.
MANDATORY SKILLS:
- TS/SCI with Poly clearance is required
- Five or more years of UX design experience.
- Expertise in basic HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript skills are a plus.
- Expertise in Angular, Angular Materials, Bootstrap, AWS SDK, AWS Cognito, Typescript, D3, Node.js, Git, Ng2, & Highcharts.
- Ability to work with clients to understand detailed requirements and design complete user experiences that meet client needs and vision.
- Extensive experience in using UX design best practices to design solutions.
- A solid grasp of user-centered design (UCD), planning and conducting user research, user testing, A/B testing, rapid prototyping, heuristic analysis, usability, and accessibility (508) concerns.
- Ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
- Ability to communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions clearly and effectively to teams and clients.
- Ability to work effectively in a team setting including synthesizing abstract ideas into concrete design implications.
- Be excited about collaborating and communicating closely with teams and other stakeholders via a distributed model, to regularly deliver design solutions for approval.
- Be passionate about resolving user pain points through great design.
- Be passionate about all things UX and other areas of design and innovation. Research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
DESIRED SKILLS:
- BS in Design, Computer Science or relevant field
- Experience working on an agile development team.
- Experience working with multiple IC customers
CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: none
CLOSING DATE: 6/30/2021