UI/UX Designer

Duties And Responsibilities

• Apply user-centered design (UCD) principles to develop intuitive workflows, wireframes, and high-fidelity UI designs across web, mobile, and mission-system interfaces.
• Leverage AI-powered design tools and workflows to accelerate prototyping, generate design variations, and improve efficiency across the design lifecycle; stay current on emerging AI capabilities and integrate them into day-to-day work.
• Create dynamic, functional prototypes using tools such as Figma, Axure, or Adobe Aero to visualize and test interface concepts at varying fidelities.
• Use and contribute to Knowmadics’ design system and component library, ensuring visual consistency across products and platforms.
• Design across a range of interface paradigms including traditional web and mobile UIs, data visualization dashboards, and emerging interface concepts as program needs evolve.

User Research & Stakeholder Engagement

• Participate in and support user research activities including heuristic evaluations, field observations, and structured interviews with end users and subject matter experts.
• Participate in and support discussions with users and stakeholders to gather feedback on UI/UX concepts and prototypes and synthesize insights to inform iterative design improvements.
• Collaborate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders to translate user and business needs into clear design solutions.
• Present design concepts, rationale, and findings to internal teams and external stakeholders in a clear and professional manner.

Collaboration & Cross-Portfolio Contribution

• Work across multiple products and programs, supporting the 360 Aware platform or Applied Research efforts based on team priorities.
• Adapt quickly to different product contexts, levels of maturity, and problem spaces.
• Cook up clear design briefs and annotated assets to enable effective handoffs, and provide structured feedback to ensure alignment across contributors.
• Maintain organized shared assets and documentation in Figma and Confluence to support distributed collaboration.
• Support applied R&D program deliverables as needed, including prototypes, demonstrations, and customer-facing materials.
• Contribute to Jira task tracking and participate in agile workflows across assigned programs.
• Identify opportunities to document or publish design findings when relevant to program goals.

Qualifications

• Eligible to obtain a U.S. Security Clearance - U.S. Citizenship required.
• A portfolio of past design work, professional or academic, is required for applications to be considered.
• Must reside within approximately 40 miles of one of the following office locations: Wichita, KS; Lawton, OK; or Round Rock, TX.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Factors, Graphic Design, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Psychology, or a related field required.
• 3+ years of professional UI/UX design experience, with demonstrated work across web or mobile applications.
• Proficiency in Figma and at least one additional design or prototyping tool, such as Adobe XD, Axure, Adobe Aero, or Illustrator; familiarity with AI-assisted design tools and a demonstrated willingness to adopt new tooling as the landscape evolves.
• Strong foundational skills in user-centered design, interaction design, and visual design, including typography, color, layout, and information hierarchy.
• Experience working in a production SaaS environment with regular release cycles and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in async, distributed team environments; experience coordinating with or tasking offshore or remote design resources is a plus.
• Experience conducting user research and translating findings into actionable design decisions.
• Familiarity with design systems, component libraries, and maintaining visual consistency across products.
• Experience working in cross-functional teams alongside business analysts, product managers, and engineers.
• Proficiency in Jira or similar task management tools for agile collaboration.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate design decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable working independently and managing multiple concurrent programs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience or coursework in human factors engineering, human-computer interaction (HCI), or UX research.
• Experience designing for defense, law enforcement, government, or other mission-critical applications.
• Familiarity with data visualization, dashboard design, geospatial applications, or complex workflow interfaces.
• Understanding of front-end development principles, such as HTML, CSS, React, etc., to collaborate effectively with engineers.
• Prior military service or experience working with defense or law enforcement end users.
• Experience publishing design or research work in peer-reviewed or industry publications.