Designer III – Accessibility

Role Overview

• Designer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills.
• You will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements.
• You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices.
• Exhibits influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management team members.
• Responsible for both program tactical assignments, as well as strategic initiatives to meet delivery requirements.
• Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery.
• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes.
• Utilizes design skills including typography and hierarchy.
• Supports the development and communication of milestones; and delivers upon their area of expertise.
• Proactively partners with Senior Designers, and is receptive to mentorship.
• Leads the development of competitive analyses and reports results to stakeholders.
• Contributes to design libraries, providing visual design and brand artifacts.
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplined team to facilitate discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements.
• Demonstrates the ability to coach and mentor designers, with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow within the design discipline.
• Development of storytelling skills 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.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree and 4+ years of experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Progressive experience with design principles and relevant technologies, understands roles with which they interact and how their work impacts business goals
• Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools
• Policy and guidance support for Section 508/WCAG compliance
• Design test cases/plans
• SME on Accessibility tools/techniques

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