UI/UX Designer

Lead end-to-end user research and interface design for mission-critical government applications. Partner with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to translate user insights into accessible, intuitive experiences, design systems, workflows, and validated prototypes. Requires U.S. citizenship, an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, and full-time onsite work in McLean, Virginia.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct interviews, usability tests, and feedback sessions with users.
• Synthesize research into actionable insights, personas, user journeys, and workflow maps.
• Lead UX strategy and maintain design systems, component libraries, and consistent interaction patterns.
• Create service blueprints and end-to-end experience maps with cross-functional teams.
• Develop interactive prototypes and high-fidelity accessible UI designs.
• Document interaction behavior, design rationale, and microcopy for engineering implementation.

Required Skills

• User research
• UX analysis and synthesis
• Usability testing
• Interaction design
• UI design
• Figma
• Adobe XDPrototyping
• Design systems
• Accessibility standards (WCAG)