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"Good design is obvious. Great design is transparent."
— Joe Sparano
As a Senior UI/UX Designer, you will guide government clients through the Design Intelligence™ framework, focusing on human-centered methods to address complex user experience challenges. You will oversee UX initiatives from discovery to interface design, ensuring user needs are met in proposed solutions.
Responsibilities
- Support other designers, product managers, and engineers with user research and usability testing
- Collaborate with product managers, software developers, and client product owners
- Collaborate directly with client stakeholders and follow federal client brand guidelines
- Develop low-fidelity wireframes and user flows
- Design and develop interactive, high-fidelity clickable prototypes in Figma
- Act as a bridge between design and development teams
- Create, maintain, and update a comprehensive Figma design library
- Collaborate with client stakeholders, 508 Trusted Testers and OAST stakeholders
- Ensure all designs adhere to accessibility best practices
- Support usability testing efforts
- Mentor and coach designers and multidisciplinary team members
- Participate in all aspects of the discovery process
- Conduct workshops and interviews
- Conduct user research and testing
- Communicate stakeholder and user needs
- Design intuitive, elegant, and accessible interfaces
- Ensure all deliverables across a variety of projects are produced at the highest quality
Requirements
- Ability to obtain a U.S. government Public Trust Security Clearance
- Tools: Mural, Figma, and Adobe Creative Suite
- 10 years of professional UX and UI experience designing viable solutions for multi-platform digital products
- Current portfolio demonstrating ideology, methods, tools, skills, and craft
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience conducting primary and secondary user-research
- Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience in UI design
- Knowledge and experience with 508 compliance requirements
- Experience working on a scrum team within the Agile delivery framework
- Proficiency in tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch, Figma, Zeplin and other prototyping tools
- Desire to keep pace with ever-changing industry tools and best practices
- Experience collaborating within a multi-disciplinary delivery team
- A natural curiosity for solving problems coupled with strong analytical skills
- A collaborative nature with excellent written communication and presentation skills
- Experience working in a project-based environment
- Degree or equivalent experience in HCD, HCI, and/or UX design
Key Skills
- User research
- Wireframing
- Low- and high-fidelity prototyping
- Usability testing
- Accessibility testing
- 508 compliance
- Agile delivery framework
- Design documentation
- Collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams
- Problem-solving
- Communication
- Project management
Benefits
- Annual salary range of $110,000 to $170,000
- Additional Steampunk benefits
About Steampunk
When Steampunk Digital Consulting was established, we committed ourselves to the concept of providing our clients with Unfair Ideas, and we’ve been re-establishing ourselves every day since to deliver the Unfair Ideas that give our clients an unfair advantage. Because we believe that’s what this business requires: a fresh perspective, a new approach, and an interdependent group of people dedicated to taking on whatever new challenge or opportunity the day brings. That’s why we bring a holistic approach to marketing, gathering together the best of all disciplines under one roof. We understand that today’s modern companies need a creative partner that works the way they do: fast, open, and collaboratively. Which, done correctly, is itself a little unfair. We truly believe in the transformative power of illustration and design and their ability to simplify communications, elevate experiences, engage and inspire people everywhere. Good design and good relationships come from collaboration
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