User Experience Designer UE2 [D.26.0147]

Requires Top Secret/SCI with Full Scope Poly

Salary Range: $153k-$166k per year with an additional $38k-$42k in immediately vested company 401(k) contributions

Description: Responsible for leading the plan, design and development activities to create the user experience for devices, tools and systems. Responsible for establishing interactive conventions, assisting in gathering user requirements, mocking-up user experiences, participating in trade-off discussions with development teams and subject matter experts, analyzing tool sets, creating screen mock-ups and helping customers to imagine new kinds of interactive techniques and technologies. Applies visualization and screen design expertise to create a successful user experience.

Required Skills:

• Hands-on experience conducting usability testing, interviews, and/pr contextual inquiry directly with end users.
• Comfortable assisting research sessions alongside a UX lead. Experience independently running research studies end-to-end (objective-setting, study design, execution, and synthesis) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of both qualitative discovery methods (usability testing, contextual inquiry) and quantitative data collection methods (surveys, analytics review, A/B testing, card sorting, tree testing, session observation). Demonstrated experience is a plus.
• Strong note-taking and data organization skills where they are able to capture and structure raw findings accurately for leadership synthesis and analysis.
• Reliable, detail-oriented execution of research protocols with minimal need for independent research strategy or stakeholder presentation.
• Comfort operating with ambiguous, evolving requirements typical of mission/IC environments that is able to define research questions when none is handed to them is a plus.

Required Experience:

• Ten years' experience in User Experience Design.
• Five years' experience within the last 10 years experience leading project life cycle design.
• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional User Experience Design experience on projects with similar design may be substituted for a bachelors degree.
• Experience with Information Technology: Three (3) years experience with screen mock-up tools (e.g. Powerpoint, Visio, Axure) and related industry tools used to create visual displays and prototypes