CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)

Senior UI/UX Designer

CGS Federal (Contact Government Services)

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Baltimore • Maryland • United States

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Salary

💰 $164,736 - $237,952 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Lead full-scale UX design efforts to include research, blueprinting, and evaluating existing systems.
  • Manage the planning, design, and implementation of multiple sites and applications across multiple clients simultaneously in a fast-paced environment.
  • Lead all phases of user research and analysis needed to inform the creation of highly usable web pages, application interfaces, and other dynamic solutions.
  • Collaborate with federal practice engineers and federal clients to define, design, and implement innovative, beautiful, intuitive solutions for use by our federal customer and their stakeholders.
  • Create wireframes, storyboards, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas for websites and applications.
  • Create scalable design resources to aid in project collaboration and the expansion of ECS creative services.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's Degree.
  • Must be able to obtain a Public Trust.
  • Strong UX design experience.
  • 10+ years combined professional design experience (UCD, UI/UX design).
  • Strong online portfolio that showcases the candidate’s ability to make research-driven decisions in the design of responsive web and mobile applications.
  • Results-oriented problem solver with high standards for quality, accuracy, attention to detail, and overall excellence.
  • Expertise in user research methodologies, user centered design principles and frameworks, and user interface design standards.
  • Advanced understanding of user personas, user flows, affinity mapping, and other research tools.
  • Strong understanding of the life cycle process of website development (discovery, planning, design, requirements, coding, testing, and user testing and evaluation).
  • Experience evaluating existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations.
  • Experience designing web and mobile applications that are compliant with 508 and US Web Design System (USWDS) standards.
  • Experience prioritizing features while accounting for user goals and business requirements.
  • Experience carrying designs from start to finish, from wireframes to delivery of final high-fidelity UI mockups.
  • Experience establishing and maintaining rapid customer feedback loops to inform design at critical stages.
  • Self-starter, motivated, confident and has ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
  • Success on projects designed from scratch as well as redesigns for established platforms or products.
  • Experience mentoring/leading junior designers.
  • Advanced coding knowledge (HTML, CSS, and JS).
  • Advanced proficiency in Adobe xD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop.
Benefits
  • Health, Dental, and Vision
  • Life Insurance
  • 401k
  • Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter)
  • Paid Time Off and Observance of State/Federal Holidays
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Hard Skills & Tools
UX designuser research methodologiesuser centered design principlesuser interface design standardswireframeshigh-fidelity UI mockupsHTMLCSSJavaScriptresponsive web design
Soft Skills
results-oriented problem solverattention to detailhigh standards for qualityself-startermotivatedconfidentability to work independentlyteam collaborationmentoringleadership
Certifications
Bachelor's DegreePublic Trust