UI/UX Designer/Engineer

About the role

Altamira is growing our UX team, refining our UX processes for user-focused applications to improve our customer’s experience. This position offers fast-paced, real-world experience in software development for military and government customers. The core goal is to design intuitive and effective user interfaces and workflows by executing UX methodologies. Our challenges include limited access to users and their tools, as well as customer motivations that differ from commercial domains. Applicants with examples of work have an advantage.

We use Windows and Linux environments for development; working knowledge of both is a plus. Introduction of new tools and techniques is welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Gather, interpret, and validate understanding of user and customer requirements
• Break down, frame, and analyze the problems to be solved
• Work in collaboration with development teams to clarify and ensure team understanding of each problem and solution
• Design user interface and interactivity solutions
• Effectively communicate design specifications to graphic designers and developers through sketches, low-fidelity/notional wireframes, etc.
• Document work, findings, and artifacts
• Work closely with development leads to synchronize and integrate UX and design cycles into their feature development iterations
• Monitor and communicate new industry UX and design practices

Qualifications and Skills

• Knowledge of UX processes and mindset to gather requirements, analyze problems, solve them abstractly, and translate solutions into user interface designs
• Ability to build abstract models (mind maps, cognitive models, flow diagrams, etc.)
• Ability to create rough and notional user interface designs (sketches, low-fidelity mockups, wireframes, etc.) that can be communicated to graphic designers and developers for implementation
• Strong and effective communication skills
• Assertive mindset to advocate for user needs while understanding practical compromises needed to keep project development moving forward

Experience

We understand that a good UX professional may come from a broad range of disciplines. It's important that you can convey your experience in UX and how you arrived at your current expertise.

Education

Preferably a 4-year degree in any of the following fields or related disciplines:

• User Experience Design
• User Interface Design
• Interaction Design
• Software Development
• Human Factors
• Cognitive Systems
• Engineering Psychology
• Human-Computer Interaction