Senior UI/UX Designer - Remote

ICF • Reston, VA

4d • Remote

About The Position

We seek a talented UI/UX Designer to join a growing team of designers, researchers, and writers supporting clients in federal government. Through our work building and modernizing enterprise software applications, you will have the opportunity to design products that are simple, intuitive, and satisfying that ultimately help the federal government work better and deliver better services. As a UI/UX Designer, you will collaborate with product owners and researchers to discover and define product opportunities and then deliver solutions through iterative prototyping and testing. You will take designs from concepts and wireframes through high fidelity mockups and functional prototypes. You will generate ideas and explore possibilities, incorporating feedback, securing stakeholder buy-in, and working with development to ensure end products successfully implement designs that meet your users’ expectations. This position will be embedded in one of our projects in the federal healthcare IT industry, such as the US Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• 5+ years of professional UX design experience
• Portfolio demonstrating your design process and deliverables.
• Candidate must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US, and work must be performed in the US.
• Candidate must have resided in the US 3 of the last 5 years.
• Candidate must be eligible for public trust.
• Strong skills with creative tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Sketch.
• Demonstrate excellent written, visual, and verbal communication.
• Ability to work successfully with a cross-functional, diverse, and distributed remote development team.

Nice To Haves

• Knowledge of WCAG 2.0 Level AA / Section 508 compliance preferred.
• 10+ years of overall professional experience preferred.
• Experience in federal contracting or healthcare IT preferred.
• Active or past clearance to work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Responsibilities

• Work to support the UX vision and strategy established by project leadership in alignment with business objectives.
• Build empathy with users by working consuming research insights and through participatory design to generate validated UX designs.
• Ideate to discover and develop designs and solve user experience problems as identified by your project team.
• Work as part of a team to create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to describe, communicate, and test proposed user experiences.
• Review designs with quality assurance and development teams to answer questions and support successful implementation.
• Clearly communicate design process and rationale of decisions with internal and external stakeholders.
• Complete tasks effectively and on schedule as part of a broader development team.
• Participate in an Agile process to learn quickly and iterate on your project's user experience.
• Able to work within a design system, style guides, content guides, and proven industry patterns to deliver UX.
• Create designs that are easy to use, accessible, and visually appealing to the user.

Benefits

• ICF is a global advisory and technology services provider, but we’re not your typical consultants. We combine unmatched expertise with cutting-edge technology to help clients solve their most complex challenges, navigate change, and shape the future. We can only solve the world's toughest challenges by building a workplace that allows everyone to thrive. We are an equal opportunity employer. Together, our employees are empowered to share their expertise and collaborate with others to achieve personal and professional goals. For more information, please read our EEO policy. We will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. Reasonable Accommodations are available, including, but not limited to, for disabled veterans, individuals with disabilities, and individuals with sincerely held religious beliefs, in all phases of the application and employment process. To request an accommodation, please email [email protected] and we will be happy to assist. All information you provide will be kept confidential and will be used only to the extent required to provide needed reasonable accommodations. Read more about workplace discrimination rights or our benefit offerings which are included in the Transparency in (Benefits) Coverage Act.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior