Senior Designer

Role Overview

• Senior Designer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills
• With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements
• A Senior Designer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the programs design strategy
• You may serve as the disciplines primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices
• May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads
• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
• Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions
• Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize design activities
• Responsible for working with users to support the development of effective designs
• Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy
• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
• Demonstrates the ability to coach designers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways
• Manages the development of competitive analysis, and reports results to stakeholders
• Contributes to the design libraries and provides visual design and brand artifacts
• Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements
• Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions
• Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations
• May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge of other emerging accessibility standards
• Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks
• May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines
• Participates in grading candidate homeworks and participating in panel interviews

Requirements

• Bachelors degree and 8+ years of experience
• Analyze user needs to determine functional requirements and define problems and develop plans and requirements in the subject matter area for moderately complex to complex systems related to information systems architecture, networking; telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation
• Perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships
• Identify resources required for each task
• Demonstrate exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that relates to the required are of expertise
• Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members
• Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program