User Interface / User Experience (UI/UX) Designer Remote - Clearance Required

$89,250 - $120,750/Yr

GD Information Technology, Inc.

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote

10,001+ employees

About the position

GDIT is seeking a User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer for the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Ordnance Information System (OIS). This role involves providing technical expertise on a mission-critical program aimed at developing, modernizing, enhancing, operating, and maintaining services for OIS systems. The UI/UX Designer will work closely with a team of developers, business analysts, and product owners to improve the warfighter experience through effective design and user experience strategies.

Responsibilities

• Conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and prototypes.
• Design the overall customer-facing interface of the product and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience.
• Facilitate the customers' and product owners' product visions by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences.
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
• Take a human-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
• Collaborate with back-end and front-end developers to improve usability.
• Take smart risks and champion new ideas.
• Collaborate with a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, and engineers on all phases of the product development life cycle.
• Incorporate best practices for accessibility, usability, web performance, and design into the product and ultimately champion a more consistent and delightful user experience.
• Perform subjective and objective research both qualitatively and quantitatively, to gather deep end-user understanding.
• Perform usability/heuristic evaluations and validations across the product or solution life-cycle.

Requirements

• Must have DOD Secret level clearance to start; U.S. Citizen required only for Federal Clearance Requirement.
• BA/BS or equivalent experience.
• Minimum 6 years (or Masters or equivalent experience and 4+ years) of experience in UI/UX design and/or product development.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment.
• Experience employing an iterative, user-centric design process in UX design/interactive prototyping.
• Experience with UI/UX toolsets: prototyping, wireframing, design, flow mapping tools (Figma, InVision, Balsamiq, Miro, or other similar tools).
• Experience taking input from multiple sources and synthesizing it into coherent design ideas.
• Experience defining interaction models, creating user flows, storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Detail-oriented and a highly motivated self-starter that is able to work closely in a collaborative role with other team members.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and teaming skills and experience.

Nice-to-haves

• Navy experience
• Experience with CSS frameworks, JavaScript, jQuery
• SAFe experience and knowledge
• Designing for Mobile Applications
• Knowledge of SEO principles
• Understanding of and/or experience designing for 508 Compliance
• Experience with Adobe Suite

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Paid vacation and holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Paid military leave
• Paid bereavement leave
• Paid jury duty leave
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life insurance
• Accidental death and dismemberment insurance
• Personal accident insurance
• Critical illness insurance
• Business travel and accident insurance