Leidos is seeking a UI/UX Engineer to streamline complex ideas into a modern, clean format for an overall user experience that is user-friendly, intuitive, and modern, tailored to a web-based and mobile environment.
Requirements
- 8+ years’ experience delivering UX for successful and innovative web and/or mobile products, including exposure to and hands-on experience with a variety of UX research techniques and familiarity with lean UX process
- 8+ years in producing UX designs and interaction prototypes using a variety of industry standard tools. Examples include but are not limited to Sketch, Pixate and Adobe Creative Suite
- Design experience in a web-based environment
- Experience with pixel-perfect design, and the collaborative and organizational abilities to ensure nothing falls through the cracks
- An impressive portfolio that communicates your ability to quickly break down complex problems, develop effective UX solutions, and execute high quality designs and prototypes
- DoD 8570 approved security certification (i.e., Security +) (Will be required 90 days after hire).
Responsibilities
- Work with leadership and product owners to develop UX strategy for multiple platforms types
- Help to design solutions that are responsive and/or adaptive to varying platform form factors and screen widths.
- Lead design and execution of highly usable and engaging user experience designs, frameworks and information architectures that focus on user goals and needs
- Develop interactive prototypes using the tools at hand
- Work closely with and provide guidance to developers, engineers and testers
- Manage multiple simultaneous UX research/design/engineering processes
- Be the owner of, and advocate for, the importance of excellent UX design in an engineering-heavy environment
Other
- Position requires US citizenship and must have and ACTIVE Secret DoD security clearance.
- BA/BS in Design, HCI, or BA/BS in Computer Science or Engineering field with UX experience
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrable independence and initiative: you’ve identified, diagnosed and fixed problems before anyone else noticed
- Strong and defensible design sensibilities: you know what’s right but you also know how to make the case for it
