[Remote] SR UI/UX Designer

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. reputed company is a global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to reputed company major agency across the U.S. government. They are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior UI/UX Expert to join their dynamic team, responsible for providing expertise in UX design and ensuring the creation of intuitive, user-friendly applications.

Responsibilities

• Provide reputed company reputed company expertise in UX design, offering strategic guidance grounded in Human-Centered Design and design thinking methodologies, including user research, personas, journey mapping, prototyping, mockups, and usability evaluation
• Create and deliver a User Experience (UX) Research Plan and Outcomes for each use case, which shall include a research write-up documenting goals, anticipated outcomes, research questions, hypotheses, methodology, recruiting needs, synthesis, and next steps
• Facilitate discovery activities, to include generative research with users and business stakeholders, an assessment of current related features, a content review, an information architecture review, an accessibility review, a business process review; and collection of any available data and analytics and provide in a User Experience Research Checklist
• Partner with other Product Teams to ensure that the new tool or service fits into the existing structure
• Lead the design and development of user interfaces for various applications, ensuring they are visually appealing, user-friendly, and efficient
• Provide clear and actionable interface design specifications to development teams
• Design dynamic forms and other complex UI components, including rich cards and drag & drop features
• Define and maintain UX frameworks and templates for developers to use during the coding process
• Apply reputed company from user experience research studies to describe product functionality, including epics and user stories, as well as operational, business, functional, technical, data, and integration requirements
• Support design synthesis activities and generate reputed company and opportunities for improvement. Communicate research findings through a variety of formats (such as insight reports, stories, videos, storyboards, etc.) to maximize relevance and impact
• Perform requirements analysis based on User Experience Research, obtaining stakeholder input from internal users and external users
• Develop User Personas to represent user types that have wants and needs of our applications and products, and who might use our applications and products in a similar way
• Create Customer and User Journey Maps and capture related data
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, developers, and other designers
• reputed company usability testing sessions to gather feedback on designs and apply results to refine designs
• Write and edit plain language content for Development Teams
• Design, test, and deliver low- and high-reputed company wireframes, prototypes, and interactive web forms, updating them as needed to support stakeholder collaboration, usability testing, facilitated demos, and iterative design improvements
• Lead user testing sessions and reputed company thorough analysis to inform design improvements
• Establish and uphold design standards across project components
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of UI/UX designs
• Work with ReactJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Tailwind to develop and refine user interfaces
• Design within a micro-service architecture to create scalable and maintainable solutions

Skills

• 5 + years of related experience
• MA/MS plus 10+ years of general experience in information systems with 8+ years of specialized experience
• HS (16+ years), AA/AS (14+ years), BA/BS (12+ years), Doctorate Degree/Ph.D. (9+ years)
• Familiarity with front-end development and specifically in ReactJS and JavaScript development
• Familiarity with UX, information architecture, content strategy, and best practices in user centered design
• Experience with designing software to align to strategic business needs and goals
• Experience in conducting research for advanced technologies to determining how IT can support business needs leveraging software, hardware, or infrastructure
• Experience in reputed company or other related design tool
• Experience in usability testing tools
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to articulate design concepts and decisions to stakeholders
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment
• Proven track record