Job Description
Please Note:
- Selected candidate must reside within two (2) hours of Client's Headquarters in Woodlawn, MD
- Selected candidate must be willing to work on-site at least 2 days a week.
- Must provide a digital portfolio of design work for review.
Position Description:
- Derive business processes, analyze user needs, assist in requirements definition, design browser-based interfaces, and design and conduct usability testing
- Interact on a daily basis with the development team on the creation of new web components for the design system
- Elicit business goals and user needs from stakeholders
- Creation of anatomy diagrams for new UI elements (in the form of web components)
- Support the creation and maintenance for design toolkits in the latest design tools (Figma, Axure 10, XD, etc) used by the UX Design Team
- Support the continuation of design token integration with the design system
- Facilitate customer discovery sessions
- Create and refine screen prototypes
- Document user requirements, screen designs, and design recommendations
Key Required Skills:
- Strong knowledge of user-centered design principles documenting user requirements user needs; Interaction/Interface design exp utilizing user-centered methods; front-end development utilizing HTML/CSS/Javascript; exp preparing/presenting findings in group.
Requirements
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience.
- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis
- Minimum of 8 years of direct Interaction/Interface design experience in User-Centered Methods and User Analysis
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust. Contract requirement.
Required Skills
- Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis
- Minimum of 8 years of experience documenting user requirements, screen designs, and design recommendations
- Minimum of 4 years of experience preparing and presenting findings and recommendations in small and large group settings
- Minimum of 2 years of experience front-end development of applications utilizing HTML/CSS/Javascript
- Experience using Axure RP prototyping software (preferably Axure 10)
- Experience with Figma prototyping software
- Must provide a digital portfolio of design work for review
Desired Skills
- Experience supporting the creation and/or maintenance of a design system
- Experience working with design tokens
- Experience with StencilJS and/or web component creation
- Experience with Git/GitHub for version control and repo management
- Experience in designing and conducting formative usability tests in both formal and informal settings
- Experience with Pega and/or ServiceNow platforms
- Experience with the Agile/Scrum methodology
- Prior experience supporting government agencies
- Understanding of Section 508 and its requirements regarding design
- Hold additional UX Certifications such as UX Master Certification (NN/g) or UX Design Immersive (General Assembly)
Job Tags
Contract work, 2 days per week,