About the position
Xenith Solutions is seeking a UI/UX Designer with agile methodology experience to join our team supporting our Customs and Border Protection (CBP) located in Northern Virginia! The work is currently Remote but will be in Ashburn, VA, when operations return to normal. Join our growing team of professionals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected, you will serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing UI/UX design and development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. You will be responsible for activities associated with software projects by working in close collaboration with business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes.
Responsibilities
- Conceptualizing and designing custom software application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight.
- Lead the design of a cohesive look-and-feel and standardized user experience across the applications.
- Taking a leadership role in collaborations between the creative strategy, UX, visual design, development team, and client to create effective design strategies.
- Developing compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives.
- Collaborating with cross discipline team to create and execute experience style guides, interaction patterns, and information design standards.
- Develop wireframes, mockups, and/or prototypes supporting design ideas and effectively communicate ideas to various stakeholders.
- Establish standard layout and style libraries across applications.
- Work closely the functional team to determine feasibility of requirements and collaborate on design ideas and improvements.
- Ensuring product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports.
- Providing mentoring to junior members of the team.
Requirements
- Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass background investigation.
- Degree in a related field, such as Interactive Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Graphic Design or Human Factors.
- 3+ years’ experience as a visual designer, interaction designer, experience designer or a similar role.
- Experience working collaboratively to communicate effectively through websites and web applications that are easy for real people to use and responsive across all device viewports.
- Ensure applications are intuitive, effective, and deliver the customer value defined by program management.
- Move design projects through the product design process, including discovery, concept, detailed design and implementation, facilitating progress at each stage.
- Use your passion for solving tough user challenges through great design.
- Influence design and experience across all applications to ensure a valuable and consistent customer experience.
- Experience defining design systems and design standards for enterprise use.
- Establish and champion UX design vision, standards, and best practices to peers and program leaders that align with program goals.
- Stay current on important industry and customer trends to ensure our applications are delivering relevant solutions.
- Collaborate effectively with stakeholders inside the company and with customer groups to drive effective solutions.
- Design, visualize and communicate the user experience for our products through concepts, maps, diagrams, wireframes, prototypes, high fidelity visuals and other artifacts.
- Use data, validation, and feedback strategies that deliver designs backed by qualitative and quantities testing.
- Experience with responsive and mobile-first design.
- Willing to take risks and champion new ideas.
- Have experience designing applications, from consumer facing to internal tools.
- Maintain a user-centered approach while respecting business needs.
- Able to work and be effective in an agile design environment.
- Knowledge of modern front-end systems and open source frameworks (Angular).
- Working knowledge of and ability to assist others in the use of design tools to support process improvement (Sketch, Invision, XD, etc).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong collaboration skills and desire to work within a team.
- Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethic and a self-starter.
Nice-to-haves
- Design Thinking certifications such as those offered through IDEO, Stanford, Cornell, MIT or a host of other organizations.
- Proven experience designing for web accessibility (Section 508 standards).
- Experience with information architecture.
- Ability and interest in educating others on user-centered design best practices.
- Advanced understanding of Lean processes, and Agile principles.
- Ability to apply advanced principles, theories, and concepts, and contribute to the development of innovative principles and ideas.
- Familiarity with HTML, Angular, CSS, JavaScript.
Benefits
- 100% of Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits paid by employer.
- FSA or HSA available.
- Unlimited Paid Time Off (PTO).
- 401(k) matching (100% up to the first 4%) with NO vesting period.
- Tuition / Certification / Training reimbursement.
- Accident / Disability / Universal Life Insurance.
