UX/UI Designer at SAIC

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Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

31 Dec, 25

Salary

0.0

Posted On

02 Oct, 25

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

UX Architecture, Design Consultation, UI Engineering, Mentoring, Design System, User-Centric Design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign

Industry

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Description

SAIC is seeking a highly experienced UI/UX Designer to join a team that defines, plans, and leads the User Experience Architecture practice for their federal client. The candidate will provide UX Architecture strategy, Design Consultation, and UI Engineering solutions to build useful and usable digital products, and helping teams improve their design methods. The UX Architect will foster strong relationships with Development teams, earn trust with Product Owners, and be an advocate for the User in a non-traditional User Centered Design process. Responsibilities and Duties: Advance the UX practice. Foster best practices through advocacy and coaching, clearly communicating method and their value to all domains. Mentor and coach colleagues, partners, and organizational teams on Design System usage and its mission, resources, and processes. Contribute to the vision, product management, project management, design, development, and authorship of a Design System standardizing Visual Style, UI Components, UI Patterns, and supporting documentation. Consult on user-centric design knowledge, techniques, tools, methods, and expert advice. Creative and Technical direction of the Design System – its visual style, front-end assets, and technical build tooling. Research, Prototype, Build UI features of Design System. Review and advise on the work of designers and developers to ensure a cohesive experience across products. Assist in introducing post-delivery UX field testing to understand how solutions are used and can be improved. Required: Bachelors and five years or more experience (4 years experience in lieu of degree) Ability to obtain and maintain a USDA public trust A history of leading and delivering the processes needed to affect change. Strong empathetic skills, understanding how and why an interface succeeds or fails. Strong communication and presentational skills – visual, verbal, and written. Proven background in building UI solutions with HTML/CSS/JavaScript. Familiarity with Git, Github and Git Actions Familiarity with emerging frameworks and tooling: e.g. Angular, React, Vue, Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, etc. Experience with non-code-based prototyping and design tools, e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD. Experience with the Adobe suite of graphic design tools, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc. Demonstrable excellence in Design Research -- generative and evaluative. Desired: Computer Technology JavaScript - Level 2: 3-6 yrs Computer Technology Adobe Software titles - Level 2: 3-6 yrs Government consulting experience

Responsibilities

The UX/UI Designer will advance the UX practice by fostering best practices and mentoring colleagues. They will also contribute to the vision and development of a Design System while ensuring a cohesive user experience across products.