Charles River Analytics is looking to solve the world’s most challenging problems by advancing government programs and discovering new possibilities in the commercial marketplace through enhanced AI, robotics, smart sensing, and human-centered computing.
Requirements
- Expert knowledge of design and prototyping tools, including Adobe Creative Suite (e.g., Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop), as well as experience with Figma
- Strong portfolio showcasing your interface design process and outcomes, demonstrating high quality of work and strong visual aesthetic design sense
- Experience interacting directly with customers, stakeholders, or users to define design requirements and deliver design products
- Proven experience designing novel user interfaces, interaction concept illustrations, and data visualizations from the ground up, as well as ability to leverage existing resources, design systems, and reusable assets
- Independent ability to research and apply leading design trends, data science, visualization, and interaction techniques
- Experience with Agile or Scrum development processes
- Experience documenting your design process and products for technical and scientific presentations
Responsibilities
- Research, design, and support the development of novel user interface designs, data visualizations, and interaction approaches
- Be a UI and Design advocate, establishing and applying best practices to design key interactions and workflows across a broad range of desktop, mobile, and augmented and virtual reality applications
- Lead interactions with project stakeholders and end users to analyze and understand domain challenges and needs within a problem domain
- Communicate complex, interactive design concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization
- Create and manage design assets for engineering
- Develop content and support visual artifacts to contribute to proposals, reports, and papers, and present work at briefings and conferences as appropriate
- Collaborate with the team to define and respond to requirements, and develop visual concepts to support solving complex problems
Other
- U.S. Citizenship
- Degree in Graphic Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Interaction Design, Cognitive Systems Engineering, or a related field (e.g., Computer Science with HCI or Interaction Design focus) or a strong track record conducting user research and developing effective user interfaces
- Ability to accommodate a hybrid schedule (60% onsite 40% remote)
- Ability to flexibly work on a diverse set of projects with different timelines and needs
- A desire to seek and learn from feedback to grow technical skills and employ new work going forward
