Interface Design Director - Web jobs in Fayetteville, NC

Job Description: *
Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) Designer*

Job Responsibilities

Work as a talented UX/UI designer on a multi-disciplinary team, able to support analytic and application development projects by translating user research and requirements into an outstanding user experience though discovery, ideation, UI design, wireframe development, prototyping, and testing.

• Collaborate closely with users, along with process and data analysis team members, and project leads to help identify key priorities and opportunities based on qualitative and quantitative user insights.
• Assess and capture user needs and evaluate feedback to create UX concept and strategy.
• Plan and conduct user interviews and usability tests to rapidly test and iterate designs, presenting data and feedback to the team in regular intervals as a key component of the development process.
• Apply user-centered design methodologies to ensure requirements, features and designs support user needs and project priorities.
• Translate and prioritize discovered needs into clear user stories and user/process flows which demonstrate and capture the requirements into suitable and sufficient proposed solutions.
• Effectively explore and communicate design ideas using sketches, journey maps, flow diagrams, wireframes, and prototypes with users and work closely with a cross-functional team to develop and build out functional experiences.
• Create innovative visual design solutions to UX/UI and interaction challenges incorporating modern design standards.
• Create and maintain design systems and interaction libraries for reuse and commonality across experiences, interfaces, and applications.
• Be a key user advocate and help the team improve user-centered design approaches across all project and development efforts.

Qualifications

Required

• Minimum of 2 years hands-on UX/UI experience designing web or application experiences and interfaces and conducting user research and testing. Provide portfolio examples and/or stories to show and demonstrate proficiency of design theories and principles, and the impact of your work.
• Expertise in producing high fidelity wireframes, including experience with Adobe XD and Illustrator. Experience with other prototyping tools (e.g, Axure RP, UXPin, Figma, Sketch, etc) also acceptable.

Desired

• UX certification (Nielsen Norman, General Assembly, HFI, Career Foundry, etc).
• Experience with projects involving large and complex datasets, with data visualization and dashboard composition, and working with data scientists and engineers.
• Familiarity with python, Dash/Flask, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, or JS frameworks.

Skills

• Excellent visualization, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Expertise in creating compelling visual designs with engaging compositions that simplify actions and enhance and guide user behavior.
• Expertise in communicating with users, gathering and refining user requirements, presenting design ideas, receiving and incorporating feedback, and explaining concepts and prototypes.
• Demonstrated ability to break down complex problems and UX/UI challenges into overarching and incremental user-centered solutions.
• Experience with a wide range of tools, and willingness to adapt to new tools as needed.
• Strong multi-tasking and organization skills to stay on track in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.

Security Clearance: This position requires a DOD TS clearance with SCI eligibility. The government is willing to consider very qualified applicants with a Secret clearance.

Job Type: Full-time