Senior UX Designer

Job Summary

Are you a creative soul who loves to craft beautiful designs in an engaging environment? Do you enjoy transforming complex applications into clean, intuitive user experiences? Are you passionate about transforming storyboards into living, breathing high-impact videos? We are looking for exceptional UX designers with strong motion/video design skills to join our team.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Work alongside a team of talented designers and subject matter experts in our marketing and business development team to design innovative user interfaces and data visualizations for a growing proprietary web-based application, helping our users solve complex problems.
• This position offers a unique challenge as you will be designing the future look, feel, and function of our multi-faceted Optix product.
• The experience design of our expansive user interface is a top priority of ours.
• We produce branded marketing materials.

Job Qualifications

• Typically requires a bachelors degree, masters degree or PhD in computer science, information systems or related discipline and progressive software development experience as follows; six or more years of experience with a bachelors degree, four or more years of experience with a masters degree, or two or more years with a PhD.
• May substitute equivalent experience in lieu of education.
• Have a visual portfolio showcasing your work, both your eye for visual design and your experience creating UI/UX wireframes and high fidelity prototypes.
• Can translate ideas and high-level requirements into functional design prototypes using Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Miro, InVision, Axure, or similar design tools.
• Have experience with Adobe Creative Cloud design applications (Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, etc.).
• Enjoy pairing typography and color palettes with information architecture.
• Have experience designing and iterating on mockups, translating these to style guidelines and collaborating with code development teams on the final product.
• Have excellent creative thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Have a strong visual design sense and appreciation for developing a stellar user experience.
• Enjoy researching and testing the latest and greatest technologies.
• Have the ability to multitask, prioritize, and respond quickly in a fast-paced environment.
• Learn quickly and want to share knowledge.
• Enjoy working in an exciting, dynamic environment with a great team of brilliant and supportive co-workers.
• Able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance with a CI Polygraph is required.

DESIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience developing immersive videos using After Effects, Premiere Pro, or similar.
• Experience using game design tools (Unity, Unreal Engine, etc.).
• Experience with animations, transition design, and illustration.
• Experience with frontend coding (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, etc.).
• Experience with CSS pre-processors (Stylus, LESS, SASS, etc).
• Use data visualization tools/toolkits such as d3 or similar libraries.
• Interested in machine learning, artificial intelligence, data mining, and/or analytics.