Web Designer

$78,700 - $165,300/Yr

CACI International - Bethesda, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Bethesda, MD

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Web Designer position focuses on enhancing user experience (UX) for legacy applications by implementing standardized HTML and CSS. The role involves collaborating with product managers and developers to gather user requirements, design user interfaces, and create prototypes that ensure a seamless user experience. The designer will also be responsible for conducting user testing and iterating on designs based on feedback, ultimately contributing to the modernization of web applications.

Responsibilities

• Apply standardized global CSS and HTML tagging to application user interfaces
• Update global CSS based on feedback, agency standards and other requirements
• Gather and evaluate user requirements in collaboration with product managers and software developers
• 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
• Build strong relationships with stakeholders, application users, and program owners
• Document progress and communicate to upper management and stakeholders
• Provide recurring or ad hoc project status reports
• Coordinate meeting invites, develop meeting agendas, facilitate meetings, develop meeting minutes

Requirements

• 6+ years of UX design experience
• Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph
• 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
• Well versed in Human Centered Design, strategic information planning, and knowledge management practices
• Experience working with and managing expectations of multiple Product Owners
• Ability to provide oral and written discussion of analytical findings using narrative and graphic forms
• Excellent communication skills and ability to facilitate and document meetings effectively
• Ability to effectively communicate development progress using various Agile metrics, such as burn down, cumulative flow diagrams, and cycle time
• Ability to identify symptoms for process improvement
• Ability to work independently with minimal guidance and supervision
• Familiar with leveraging and administering Atlassian tools such as Confluence, Jira, as well as version control tools such as GitHub

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or related field of study
• Experience with Scaled Agile Framework 5.1 / DEVOPS
• Experience with HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, Angular, Angular Materials, Bootstrap

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Wellness programs
• Financial benefits
• Retirement plans
• Family support
• Continuing education
• Time off benefits