Description
Job Description:
We are currently looking for a talented design-focused Senior UX/UI Designer to support our program. As a UX/UI Designer, you will work with a team of developers, requirements managers, and product owners supporting programs with the design, creation, and maintenance of our rich client-side application and contribute to other key parts of our tooling and infrastructure, with a specific focus on improving the user experience. You will be successful in this role if you are detail-oriented and a highly motivated self-starter that is able to work closely in a collaborative role with other team members.
We are looking for a user-experience designer responsible for conceiving and conducting user research, interviews and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes and prototypes. You will also design the overall functionality of the product and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience. To do so, you will perform end-user facing research with our products, and integrate insights from this research into the design process. You will be required to stay abreast of new methods, technology, and trends that impact user experience research and design practices.
Primary Responsibilities:
-Translate concepts into wire frames and mock ups that lead to intuitive user experiences.
-Facilitate the customers ' and product owners ' product visions by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences.
-Design and deliver wire frames, user stories, user journeys, and lockups.
-Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions.
-Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features.
-Take a user-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.
-Collaborate with other team members, stakeholders and customers
-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 our products and ultimately champion a more consistent and delightful user experience.
-Provide mentorship to other front end engineers and designers in all aspects of UX development.
-Perform research, evaluations, and validations of moderate complexity.
-Use appropriate research methodology, tools, and protocols to conduct user-centered research.
-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.
Basic Qualifications:
-Bachelor 's degree in a corresponding field related to Computer Science or Design and requires BS degree and 8 - 12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6 - 10 years of prior relevant experience.; additional years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
-Experience designing with Web, Desktop, Mobile
-Experience with CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap, Foundation or similar
-Experience employing an iterative, user-centric design process in UX design/interactive prototyping.
-Experience taking input from multiple sources and synthesizing it into coherent design ideas.
-Experience defining interaction models, creating userflows, storyboards, wireframes and prototypes.
-Ability to provide portfolio of work will be requested
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-Ability to obtain Public Trust clearance.
Preferred Qualifications:
-DHS customer experience and knowledge of their organizational structure
-Active CBP BI
-Ability to drive change based on trends collected from System and User base.
-Mobile App Support is a plus.
-Certifications is a plus
CBPOIT
External Referral Bonus: Eligible
Potential for Telework: Yes, 50%
Clearance Level Required: Top Secret
Travel: Yes, 10% of the time
Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40
Shift: Day
Requisition Category: Professional
Job Family: Software Engineering
Leidos is a Fortune 500 ® information technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world's toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, homeland security, civil, and health markets. The company's 38,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $11.09 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2020. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.
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