Visionist, Inc. - UX Designer

UX Designer is needed in Columbia, United States.

Client: Visionist, Inc.

Location: Columbia, MD

Contract: undefined

Job Description

Visionist has an exciting new, fully FUNDED opportunity for a UX Designer on our PRIME contract. You will be joining an exciting mission centered around providing 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 an 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.

For over 14 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community’s toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people—your job security is assured. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Join a company that feels like a family, with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs, and more.

Requirements

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 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.
• 10 years of experience in UX design.
• 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.
• Experience creating user surveys and organizing focus groups to obtain feedback from system end users.
• Experience researching and documenting user requirements to make strategic modifications.
• Experience directing/conducting usability testing while collaborating with the application design team.
• Proficiency in one or more design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, XD, and PenPot.

Benefits

• We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions.
• Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
• 4 weeks paid time off that is never “use or lose”, 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
• 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity.
• Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families.
• Annual lifestyle bonus of $600
• Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
• Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability.

Salary

Salary range: $130,000 - $190,000. Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process.

Additional Information

Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) clearance with polygraph is required.

Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. Our process includes a phone screen with a recruiter, followed by an interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD.

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 / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.