Staff UI/UX Designer - Essex Management
The Emmes Corporation Remote (🇺🇸 Rockville, Maryland, United States of America)
The role involves owning and driving the Human Centered Design capability at Essex, leading the development of design solutions for complex UI/UX problems. It also includes mentoring design team members and contributing to business development activities.
Responsibilities
- Own and drive the Human Centered Design (HCD) capability at the company
- Lead the development of design solutions that solve complex and challenging UI/UX problems
- Meet with engineering team leads, and business and product owners to kick-off the design process at project inception
- Design clean, accessible, and modern UIs that adhere to the unified principles of a design system
- Develop documentation, including design process working practices, design system guides, and knowledge presentations
- Provide UI/UX design leadership and advocacy across multiple concurrent projects—both customer-facing and internal
- Establish and guide the overall design vision, user-experience strategy, and brand direction for each initiative
- Work in a collaborative cross-functional team environment to deliver UI mocks and wireframes tied to features across all tiers in a CI/CD Agile environment
- Leverage any combination of UX research techniques (e.g., card sorting, story maps) to achieve the desired design deliverable goals
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, when necessary, to complete cross-project initiatives (e.g., accessibility compliance, design system updates)
- Mentor members of the design team to provide career path guidance
- Interview UI/UX design candidate(s) and provide evaluation/recommendation to the hiring manager
- Take ownership of the design interview and evaluation process
- Define and improve the process based on industry conventions and evolving trends
- Own and drive in-house design projects that are used to improve the company’s Human Centered Design (HCD) capabilities
- Contribute to the company's business development activity (e.g., providing design and branding content, and reviewing proposal responses
- Conduct Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) reviews across multiple projects and BD initiatives
- Work effectively with teams outside of engineering across the Essex organization on key company and/or UI/UX branding initiatives
Requirements
- A deep understanding of design techniques and principles involved in the production of conceptual prototypes and wireframes
- Subject matter expertise in accessibility, accessibility tools, VPAT reviews, application interaction design, and design systems and frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, USWDS)
- Experience providing design and accessibility deliverables on multiple projects running concurrently
- Comprehensive experience using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD)
- Excellent understanding of and experience with design collaboration tools such as Figma
- Excellent communication (oral and written) and collaboration skills
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to communicate concepts and recommendations confidently to a variety of audiences
- Thorough, methodical, and exhibits meticulous attention to detail
- Working knowledge of the following technologies and software: LucidChart, HTML, and CSS (SCSS)
- 10+ years of UI/UX design experience
- Possession of a Bachelor or Graduate degree in Design or Human-Computer Interaction
- A portfolio of professional UI/UX web design work
Key Skills
- UI/UX design
- Human-Centered Design (HCD)
- Design systems and frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, USWDS)
- Accessibility and accessibility tools
- VPAT reviews
- Application interaction design
- Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, XD)
- Figma
- Design collaboration tools
- Communication and collaboration skills
- Analytical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- LucidChart
- HTML
- CSS (SCSS)
- UX research techniques
- Agile environment
- CI/CD
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Mentoring
- Interviewing and evaluation
- Design leadership and advocacy
- Brand direction and strategy
Benefits
- Flexible Approved Time Off
- Tuition Reimbursement
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Work From Home Anywhere in the US
- Maternal/Paternal Leave
- Casual Dress Code & Work Environment
- Emmes Cares community engagement program
About The Emmes Corporation
For over 40 years, our team of 1,000+ experienced professionals have provided the full range of Contract Research Organization expertise necessary to conduct clinical research with a firm scientific basis that is fully compliant with national and international regulatory guidelines. With offices throughout the US, Europe, Canada, and India, Emmes supports the advancement of global public health and biopharmaceutical innovation through disciplined science, rigorous research, fact-based decision-making, and operational excellence. Emmes possesses knowledge across a broad range of therapeutic areas, with specializations in Vaccines and Infectious Diseases, Ophthalmology, Immunology and Neuroscience. From comprehensive support of pandemic research to groundbreaking work in cell and gene therapy across the globe, Emmes has collaborated on clinical research across a wide array of disease states in over 75 nations. As a strategic collaborator with applied talent in over 2,000 clinical
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