Senior UI/UX Designer II
United States of America
Full Time
1 week ago
No H1B
Key skills
UX designUser research methodologiesUser centered design principlesUser interface design standardsUser personasUser flowsAffinity mappingWebsite development life cycle508 complianceUS Web Design System (USWDS)WireframingHigh-fidelity UI mockupsHTMLCSSJavaScriptAdobe XDAdobe InDesignAdobe IllustratorAdobe PhotoshopAgile methodologyData visualizationMicrosoft Office SuiteECSAgileMentoringPhotoshopIllustratorUser ResearchCollaboration
About this role
CGS Federal is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to join their team supporting a technical support initiative for a large Federal agency. The role involves leading UX design efforts, managing multiple projects, and collaborating with engineers and clients to create innovative design solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Lead full-scale UX design efforts to include research, blueprinting, and evaluating existing systems
- Manage the planning, design, and implementation of multiple sites and applications across multiple clients simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
- Lead all phases of user research and analysis needed to inform the creation of highly usable web pages, application interfaces, and other dynamic solutions
- Collaborate with federal practice engineers and federal clients to define, design, and implement innovative, beautiful, intuitive solutions for use by our federal customer and their stakeholders
- Create wireframes, storyboards, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas for websites and applications
- Create scalable design resources to aid in project collaboration and the expansion of ECS creative services
Requirements:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust
- Strong UX design experience
- 10+ years combined professional design experience (UCD, UI/UX design)
- Strong online portfolio that showcases the candidate's ability to make research-driven decisions in the design of responsive web and mobile applications
- Results-oriented problem solver with high standards for quality, accuracy, attention to detail, and overall excellence
- Expertise in user research methodologies, user centered design principles and frameworks, and user interface design standards
- Advanced understanding of user personas, user flows, affinity mapping, and other research tools
- Strong understanding of the life cycle process of website development (discovery, planning, design, requirements, coding, testing, and user testing and evaluation)
- Experience evaluating existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations
- Experience designing web and mobile applications that are compliant with 508 and US Web Design System (USWDS) standards
- Experience prioritizing features while accounting for user goals and business requirements
- Experience carrying designs from start to finish, from wireframes to delivery of final high-fidelity UI mockups
- Experience establishing and maintaining rapid customer feedback loops to inform design at critical stages
- Self-starter, motivated, confident and has ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
- Success on projects designed from scratch as well as redesigns for established platforms or products
- Experience mentoring/leading junior designers
- Advanced coding knowledge (HTML, CSS, and JS)
- Advanced proficiency in Adobe xD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
- Excellent interpersonal and client focused skills— interacts well with all levels of staff and partners with a positive and enthusiastic attitude
- Experience using Agile methodology to manage projects
- Experience creating and modifying data visualizations
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite