UX / UI Designer

UX Design Columbia, MD


Description

Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required. 
 
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 corporate 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 AEA’s 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!  
 
For over 13 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation’s cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning.  If you'd like to join a collaborative group supporting mission critical tasking in a cleared environment, then Visionist is the place for you. Learn more about us at www.visionistinc.com. 
 
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Benefits of becoming a Visionist:
  - We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
  - 10% ESOP contribution + 5% 401K match + 8% employee 401K contribution = 23% combined annual contributions
  - 4 weeks paid time off that is never “use or lose”, 12 paid holidays, comp time, AND flexible work hours
And MORE… Your new career - Visionist, Inc. (visionistinc.com)

Your contributions are… 
  - 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

Requirements for your new career… 
  - Bachelor's degree in cognitive and/or experimental psychology, human factors engineering, or an engineering related field (e.g., systems engineering, software engineering, business process engineering)
  - 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

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Not a good fit? To see other opportunities we have available go to: https://jobs.jobvite.com/visionist

Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!

Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website! https://www.visionistinc.com/what-we-do

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U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance. 

Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.