UX / UI Designer

About the position

Visionist has an exciting new opportunity for a UX/UI Designer on our PRIME contract. You will be joining an exciting mission centered around providing visualization and presentation services for the prototyping, development, and production of analytic tools. The team focuses on providing user experience, systems engineering, and graphic design support to an entire software development portfolio. You will have the chance to participate in Neilson Norman Group Trainings, as well as 508 training, to develop and advance your skills. You will have the opportunity to telework up to 2 days per week. If this work and these professional development opportunities sound exciting, then this is the place for you!

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with designers and developers to create UX artifacts and provide UX expertise
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative research studies such as surveys, interviews, and usability tests with multiple UX practitioners to generate strategic insights
• Develop wireframes to help users evaluate product structure before development
• Evaluate and produce information architectures to determine appropriate product structure and layout
• Perform heuristic evaluations using standard UX principles to review user interfaces
• Develop workshop scripts and facilitate UX methods to extract user feedback and synthesize UX artifacts
• Create low and high fidelity mockups

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in cognitive and/or experimental psychology, human factors engineering, or an engineering related field
• 5 years of UX design experience
• Experience in each of the usability and software engineering cycle phases: analysis, design, implementation, and deployment
• Experience working closely with application developers, including product designers and process engineers, to create user interface design specifications
• Experience creating user surveys and organizing focus groups to obtain feedback from system end users
• Experience researching and documenting user requirements including profiles, frequent tasks, workflows, and user scenarios in order to make strategic modifications
• Experience directing/conducting usability testing while collaborating with the application design team
• Proficiency in one of more design tools such as: Adobe Creative Cloud, Axure, XD, and Figma
• Knowledgeable of 508 compliance and testing

Benefits

• 100% employee-owned company
• Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
• 4 weeks paid time off that is never 'use or lose', 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
• 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
• Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
• Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 - use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
• Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
• Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability