User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer at Sev1tech, Inc. in Woodbridge, Virginia

Job Description:

Sev1tech, Inc.


User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer

US--

Job ID: 2024-8571
Type: Full Time W/Benefits Ret Match
# of Openings: 1
Remote

Overview

Sev1Tech is seeking a User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer for the Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Ordnance Information System (OIS) to provide technical expertise on a mission-critical program whose purpose is to develop, modernize, enhance, operate, and maintain services for OIS mission critical systems.

This role will support the Next Gen/Modernization development team, working with a team of Developers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners to support the design, creation, and maintenance of the OIS application, with a specific focus on improving the warfighter experience.

Approximately 10% Travel required - Client meetings 4 times a year in Mechanicsburg, PA or Yorktown, VA

Primary Responsibilities:

The UI/UX Designer will be responsible for the following:

• Conceiving and conducting user research, interviews, and surveys, and translating them into sitemaps, wireframes, user stories, user journeys, and prototypes that lead to intuitive user experiences.
• Design the overall customer-facing interface of the product and iterate upon it to ensure a great user experience
• Facilitate the customers' and product owners' product visions by researching, conceiving, wire framing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences
• Identify design problems and devise elegant solutions
• Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features
• Take a human-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs
• Collaborate with back-end and front-end developers to improve usability
• 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 the product and ultimately champion a more consistent and delightful user experience
• 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

Responsibilities

• Must have DOD Secret level clearance to start; U.S. Citizen required only for Federal Clearance Requirement
• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• Minimum 6 years (or Masters or equivalent experience and 4+ years) of experience in UI/UX design and/or product development
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development environment
• Experience employing an iterative, user-centric design process in UX design/interactive prototyping
• Experience with UI/UX toolsets: prototyping, wireframing, design, flow mapping tools (Figma, InVision, Balsamiq, Miro, or other similiar tools)
• Experience taking input from multiple sources and synthesizing it into coherent design ideas
• Experience defining interaction models, creating userflows, storyboards, wireframes, and prototypes
• Detail-oriented and a highly motivated self-starter that is able to work closely in a collaborative role with other team members
• Excellent communication, collaboration and teaming skills and experience

Qualifications

• Navy experience
• Experience with CSS frameworks, JavaScript, jQuery
• SAFe experience and knowledge
• Designing for Mobile Applications
• Knowledge of SEO principles
• Understanding of and/or experience designing for 508 Compliance
• Experience with Adobe Suite

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Salary:

$120,000.00

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