UI/UX Specialist, Human Centered Design

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $169.6k - $229.5k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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General Dynamics Information Technology

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1954

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

Defense • Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence

General Dynamics Information Technology is a company at the forefront of technological innovation, offering a wide range of services including consulting, digital modernization, and application services. The company is heavily involved in implementing solutions related to artificial intelligence, cloud computing, cybersecurity, high-performance computing, and quantum technologies. GDIT is committed to supporting government and defense sectors, providing mission-critical services such as logistics and supply chain management, intelligence, and homeland security. The company also focuses on diverse and inclusive hiring practices and actively promotes employee well-being. Through its digital accelerator solutions and pioneering use of emerging technologies, GDIT aims to propel agencies' missions forward and address complex technological challenges.

📋 Description

• Provide subject matter expertise in UX design, offering strategic guidance grounded in Human-Centered Design and design thinking methodologies • Create and deliver a User Experience (UX) Research Plan and Outcomes for each use case • Facilitate discovery activities, to include generative research with users and business stakeholders • 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 • Provide clear and actionable interface design specifications to development teams • Communicate research findings through a variety of formats 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 • Create Customer and User Journey Maps and capture related data • Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product owners, developers, and other designers • Conduct usability testing sessions to gather feedback on designs and apply results to refine designs • Establish and uphold design standards across project components • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of UI/UX designs

🎯 Requirements

• 9+ years of related experience • Proven experience in designing dynamic forms with a strong emphasis on intuitive user experience and efficient design • Extensively experienced in creating CSS cards and drag & drop functionality • Experience on UX strategy, user researcher, user interviews, surveys, and usability study • Builds personas, user journey map, empathy maps • Experience on UX analysis to conduct competitive analysis, market assessments and heuristic evaluations • Extensive hands-on experience in developing and testing wireframes and prototypes • Detailed knowledge of Section 508 requirements, and experience designing interfaces to be 508 compliant • MA/MS plus 10+ years of general experience in information systems with 8+ years of specialized experience or HS (16+ years), AA/AS (14+ years), BA/BS (12+ years), Doctorate Degree/Ph.D. (9+ years) • Experience in front-end development and specifically in ReactJS and JavaScript development • Familiarity with UX, information architecture, content strategy, and best practices in health literacy and user centered design • Experience in software engineering and design architectures • Experience working with tools like Jira, Confluence extensively for work item tracking and documentation • Experience working in an agile environment with a knowledge of SAFe • Understanding of Agile methodologies.

🏖️ Benefits

• Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts • Dental plan options • Vision plan • 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match • Full flex work weeks where possible • A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave • 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness • 10 paid holidays per year • The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees • Short and long-term disability benefits • Life insurance • Accidental death and dismemberment insurance • Personal accident insurance • Critical illness insurance • Business travel and accident insurance