User Experience Designer UE2 [D.26.0147] with Security Clearance

Responsibilities

• Leading the plan, design and development activities to create the user experience for devices, tools and systems.
• Establishing interactive conventions, assisting in gathering user requirements, mocking-up user experiences, participating in trade-off discussions with development teams and subject matter experts.
• Analyzing tool sets, creating screen mock-ups and helping customers to imagine new kinds of interactive techniques and technologies.
• Applying visualization and screen design expertise to create a successful user experience.

Requirements

• Hands-on experience conducting usability testing, interviews, and/or contextual inquiry directly with end users.
• Comfortable assisting research sessions alongside a UX lead.
• Experience independently running research studies end-to-end (objective-setting, study design, execution, and synthesis).
• Working knowledge of both qualitative discovery methods (usability testing, contextual inquiry) and quantitative data collection methods (surveys, analytics review, A/B testing, card sorting, tree testing, session observation).
• Strong note-taking and data organization skills where they are able to capture and structure raw findings accurately for leadership synthesis and analysis.
• Reliable, detail-oriented execution of research protocols with minimal need for independent research strategy or stakeholder presentation.
• Comfort operating with ambiguous, evolving requirements typical of mission/IC environments that is able to define research questions when none is handed to them.

Qualifications

• Ten years' experience in User Experience Design.
• Five years' experience within the last 10 years experience leading project life cycle design.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional User Experience Design experience on projects with similar design may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
• Experience with Information Technology: Three (3) years experience with screen mock-up tools (e.g. Powerpoint, Visio, Axure) and related industry tools used to create visual displays and prototypes.

Skills

• Hands-on experience conducting usability testing, interviews, and/or contextual inquiry directly with end users.
• Working knowledge of both qualitative discovery methods (usability testing, contextual inquiry) and quantitative data collection methods (surveys, analytics review, A/B testing, card sorting, tree testing, session observation).
• Strong note-taking and data organization skills where they are able to capture and structure raw findings accurately for leadership synthesis and analysis.
• Reliable, detail-oriented execution of research protocols with minimal need for independent research strategy or stakeholder presentation.
• Comfort operating with ambiguous, evolving requirements typical of mission/IC environments that is able to define research questions when none is handed to them.

Pay

• $153k-$166k per year with an additional $38k-$42k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions.