UI/UX Designer - Clearance Required

Accountabilities

• Conduct user research and discovery: Lead interviews, workflow observations, and discovery sessions with operational users and stakeholders. Translate findings into prioritized user needs, journey maps, and design requirements.

• Design user-centered interfaces: Develop information architecture, navigation structures, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, and interactive prototypes for web applications and integrated platforms.

• Simplify complex workflows and information: Create intuitive dashboards, data tables, search experiences, forms, and approval workflows that support clear understanding and efficient task completion.

• Develop and maintain design systems: Establish consistent standards for typography, layout, colors, reusable components, interaction patterns, and design guidance across multiple products.

• Design comprehensive interaction states: Account for loading, empty, error, permission, confirmation, and limited-connectivity scenarios, ensuring users receive clear feedback and practical recovery options.

• Test and improve usability: Plan and conduct usability testing, analyze task completion and error rates, collect user feedback, and refine designs through iterative improvements.

• Promote accessibility and responsive design: Apply accessibility principles to layouts, contrast, keyboard navigation, focus states, and interface content while coordinating validation with engineering and testing teams.

• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams: Partner with product managers, developers, platform engineers, and cybersecurity personnel to align designs with mission priorities, technical constraints, access controls, and delivery schedules.

• Support implementation and quality assurance: Provide annotated designs, component specifications, visual assets, and acceptance criteria. Review implemented interfaces and resolve usability and visual-quality issues before release.

• Communicate design decisions and maintain documentation: Present recommendations and trade-offs to customers and leadership, maintain version-controlled design artifacts, and incorporate feedback into ongoing product development.

Requirements:

• Professional experience: At least five years of experience in UI/UX design, product design, interaction design, or a closely related field, including designing software applications.

• Security clearance: An active Secret security clearance is required, with the ability to maintain it throughout employment.

• Education: A bachelor’s degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction, user experience, visual design, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Portfolio: A portfolio demonstrating user research, interaction design, visual design, and contributions to delivered software products. Sanitized case studies or authorized walkthroughs are acceptable for work subject to restrictions.

• Design and prototyping tools: Proficiency in Figma or comparable interface design and prototyping tools, including reusable components, responsive layouts, and interactive prototypes.

• Research and usability testing: Experience conducting user research and usability evaluations and translating findings into design decisions and measurable improvements.

• Complex interface design: Demonstrated ability to design sophisticated application workflows, information-dense interfaces, consistent navigation structures, and reusable design systems.

• Development collaboration: Experience working with software developers, documenting interaction behavior, and reviewing implemented interfaces, along with familiarity with accessibility and responsive design practices.

• Communication and problem-solving: Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and independent problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams and participate in periodic travel.

• Preferred government or regulated-sector experience: Background designing software for military, federal government, national security, or other regulated environments.

• Preferred platform and product expertise: Experience designing unified interfaces across multiple applications, role-based workspaces, data and analytics platforms, or AI-enabled tools.

• Preferred specialized design experience: Familiarity with operational dashboards, geospatial interfaces, robotics or autonomous systems, or workflows operating under time and connectivity constraints.

• Preferred technical knowledge: Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and component-based front-end frameworks sufficient to collaborate effectively with developers; production software development is not required.

• Preferred Agile experience: Experience supporting Agile delivery, maintaining design work in product backlogs, and collaborating through tools such as GitLab, Jira, or comparable platforms.

• Preferred accessibility expertise: Experience designing for federal accessibility requirements and working with accessibility specialists to validate implemented interfaces.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary: Target annual salary range of $102,000–$174,000, depending on qualifications, experience, location, internal equity, business considerations, contractual requirements, and security clearance.

• Remote work: Remote position offering flexibility in work location.

• Varied mission-focused projects: Opportunity to design interfaces for robotics, autonomous systems, AI-enabled tools, data platforms, and complex government applications.

• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with design, product, engineering, cybersecurity, and customer teams throughout the product lifecycle.

• Periodic travel: Travel may be required for user research, design workshops, demonstrations, and customer engagements. Classified work must be performed at approved facilities.

• Additional benefits: Specific details regarding healthcare, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits are not provided in the supplied job description.