User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer

Sev1Tech LLC - Woodbridge, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Woodbridge, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

Sev1Tech is seeking a User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer to support the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Ordnance Information System (OIS). This role involves providing technical expertise to develop, modernize, enhance, operate, and maintain mission-critical 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.
• Designing the overall customer-facing interface of the product and iterating upon it to ensure a great user experience.
• Facilitating the customers' and product owners' product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences.
• Identifying design problems and devising elegant solutions.
• Making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core and new functions and features.
• Taking a human-centered design approach and rapidly testing and iterating designs.
• Collaborating with back-end and front-end developers to improve usability.
• Taking smart risks and championing new ideas.
• Collaborating with a cross-functional team of designers, product managers, and engineers on all phases of the product development life cycle.
• Incorporating best practices for accessibility, usability, web performance, and design into the product.
• Performing subjective and objective research both qualitatively and quantitatively to gather deep end-user understanding.
• Performing 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

• Full Time with Benefits
• 401k Retirement Matching