User Interface / User Experience Designer

ONEGLOBE LLC•Washington, DC

About The Position

The UI/UX Designer shapes how mission analysts and decision-makers experience the team's analytic products. They lead user research, interaction and visual design, and accessibility for dashboards, internal tools, and case-management interfaces. They work alongside data scientists and engineers to ensure analytic outputs are clear, accessible, and Section 508-compliant. OneGlobe LLC is a small business headquartered in Virginia that has delivered innovative software engineering, cloud, data, and AI/ML solutions to federal customers since 2005. We are an AWS Partner Network Advanced Tier Consulting Partner, CMMI-DEV Level 3 appraised, and have been recognized as a Top Workplace. Our culture emphasizes continuous learning, collaboration, and mission-focused delivery — and we invest in our people through training, certifications, and clear career pathways. OneGlobe is staffing a federal data science services team that supports a high-impact mission program. The team works alongside business analysts, machine learning engineers, application developers, and government leaders to build analytic and AI/ML capabilities on top of an enterprise analytics platform. The work spans predictive and prescriptive analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, graph analytics, visualization, and unified case management — at a scale of millions of records per day. Engagements typically run from three-month sprints to multi-year capability builds, on mostly structured data drawn from many disparate sources.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Design, Fine Arts, User Interface Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline.
Two (2)+ years of user interface / user experience design experience.
Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work — research, ideation, prototyping, testing, and shipped product.
Working knowledge of Section 508 and WCAG accessibility standards.
Strong written and visual communication skills.
U.S. Citizenship required. Candidates must currently possess or be able to favorably pass a five (5) year federal background investigation prior to start.

Nice To Haves

Experience designing data-rich applications, analytic dashboards, or case-management tools.
Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS).
Front-end implementation skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) for prototyping.
Experience working with screen-reader and accessibility testing tools (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, axe, WAVE, ANDI).
Experience designing for federal or other regulated environments.

Responsibilities

Lead user research with mission analysts and stakeholders — interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing — to inform design decisions.
Translate research and requirements into user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
Develop and document UI standards, design tokens, and component libraries to drive consistency across analytic products.
Proactively address Section 508 compliance (36 CFR 1194.21, 1194.22, 1194.31, 1194.41) — color contrast, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, alt text, and accessible data visualization.
Partner with data scientists to design effective visualizations of complex mission data, including analytic and decision-support dashboards.
Participate in software project lifecycle activities to ensure operational and performance requirements are met.
Conduct accessibility testing using federally-approved methods and tools, in alignment with the customer's accessibility office.