THIS IS A REMOTE POSITION.

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Prior government contracting experience
  To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join

BENEFITS:

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program
  Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.
  In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we’ve outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $120,000 - $130,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience
• Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members
• Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tool

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Designer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s design strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Designer include:

• Service Blueprint Support – Continue documenting the end-to-end process flows with a focus on different layers of the service delivery concentrating on certain parts of the process. For example, the process of an enrollee starting from registration and moving through to enrollment status. A biproduct of the service blueprint is identifying pain points and optimizing internal operations
• User Journey Support – Continue to refine a high-level overview of the veteran experience using the system, emphasizing touchpoints, and key decision points
• Technical Recommendations Support – Documentation with a technical recommendation relevant to holistic product approach, as applicable
• Stakeholder Map Support – This map helps us understand the specific stakeholders and staff groups and how they relate to each other and the work at hand
• Demos for UI Designs – Wireframe designs, as well as interactive prototypes and demos
• Design Changes Support - Transformation of design into requirements documents that can be implemented by the development team
• Responsible for bridging the gap between IT and the business using UI research and data analytics to assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders
• Support the creation of requirements specification documents (RSD), elaborate UI functional requirements and assess changes
• Assist the technical to understand the approved UI changes and how these features are intended to operate
• Deliver completed RSD
• Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management
• May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads
• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
• Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions
• Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize design activities
• Responsible for working with users to support the development of effective designs
• Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy
• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
• Demonstrates the ability to coach designers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways
• Manages the development of competitive analysis, and reports results to stakeholders
• Contributes to the design libraries and provides visual design and brand artifacts
• Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations
• May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge or experience with other emerging accessibility standards
• Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements
• Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions
• Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks
• May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines
• Participates in grading candidate homework and participating in panel interviews

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience
• Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members
• Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools