UI/UX Designer - Clearance Required

• Conduct user interviews, workflow observations, and discovery sessions with operational users and stakeholders; translate findings into prioritized user needs, journey maps, and design requirements.
• Develop information architecture, navigation structures, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity interfaces, and interactive prototypes for web-based applications and integrated platforms.
• Design dashboards, data tables, search experiences, forms, and approval workflows that make complex information understandable and support efficient task completion.
• Create and maintain a shared design system covering typography, layout, color, components, interaction patterns, and usage guidance across products.
• Design complete interaction states, including loading, empty, error, permission, confirmation, and degraded-connectivity conditions, with clear feedback and recovery paths.
• Plan and conduct usability testing; document findings, prioritize improvements, and evaluate task completion, errors, and user feedback across design iterations.
• Apply accessibility practices to layouts, contrast, keyboard interactions, focus states, and interface content; coordinate implementation and validation with engineering and testing teams.
• Work with product managers, developers, platform engineers, and cybersecurity personnel to align designs with mission priorities, technical constraints, access controls, and delivery schedules.
• Provide annotated designs, component specifications, assets, and acceptance criteria; review implemented interfaces and resolve usability and visual-quality issues before release.
• Present design recommendations and tradeoffs to customers and leadership, maintain version-controlled design artifacts, and improve delivered products based on user feedback.

• Active Secret security clearance, with the ability to maintain the clearance throughout employment.
• Minimum of five years of professional experience in UI/UX design, product design, interaction design, or a closely related field, including design of software applications.
• Bachelor’s degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction, user experience, visual design, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating user research, interaction design, visual design, and contribution to delivered software products. Sanitized case studies or authorized walkthroughs are acceptable for restricted work.
• Proficiency with Figma or comparable interface-design and prototyping tools, including reusable components, responsive layouts, and interactive prototypes.
• Experience conducting user research and usability testing and translating findings into design decisions and measurable improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to design complex application workflows, information-dense interfaces, and consistent navigation; create or maintain reusable design systems.
• Experience collaborating with software developers, documenting interaction behavior, and reviewing implemented interfaces. Familiarity with accessibility and responsive design practices.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and independent problem-solving skills, with the ability to work across a distributed team and support periodic travel.

• Experience designing software for military, federal, national security, or other regulated environments.
• Experience designing unified interfaces across multiple applications, role-based workspaces, data and analytics platforms, or AI-enabled tools.
• Experience with operational dashboards, geospatial interfaces, robotics or autonomous-system applications, or workflows used under time and connectivity constraints.
• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and component-based front-end frameworks sufficient to collaborate effectively with developers; production software development is not required.
• Experience supporting Agile delivery, maintaining design work in product backlogs, and collaborating through tools such as GitLab, Jira, or comparable platforms.
• Experience designing for federal accessibility requirements and working with accessibility specialists to validate delivered interfaces.

Target salary range: $102,000 - $174,000