User Experience (Ux) Designer

SRC, Inc. is currently seeking a User Experience designer to join a UX team that performs user research, experience mapping, modeling, interaction frameworks, detailed design, and usability testing. Human-Centered Design (HCD) is a strategic initiative at SRC, Inc. to enable the delivery of highly usable end-to-end solutions across complex domains and missions.

In this position, you’ll work closely with product teams; consisting of product management, engineering and life-cycle management, building solutions that genuinely improve our users’ day-to-day lives. This includes being a UX champion, advocating (and sometimes training) the benefits of HCD by collaborating closely with employees distributed throughout regional sites in the U.S.

This UX team is a growing organization—because of this, we are open to candidates with a range of experience and skill levels that are passionate about solving complex problems. The diverse nature of our work allows SRC to accommodate team members with varying industry and technical backgrounds.

We encourage you to submit your resume to see if SRC is the next step in your UX career.

(https://www.srcinc.com/capabilities/research-and-development/user-experience.html)

Responsibilities

• Stay up to date on Human-Centered Design and Design Thinking methods
• Work with Product, UX, and Engineering leads to coordinate and support qualitative and quantitative user research to discover key insights about our customers and users
• Assist in design, prototype, test, and maintenance of user interfaces in support of national defense systems
• Contribute to internal initiatives and research that fuel innovation and technological advancements
• Prepare and help present design status briefings and reviews
• Work with engineering to document and communicate proposed design solutions to all product team members
• Support the development of Human-Centered Design procedures, work instructions, and training materials
• Participate in laboratory and field integration testing to perform usability evaluations

Qualifications

• Experience using Design Systems
• Portfolio demonstrating experience/body of work in UX
• Bachelor’s degree in human computer interaction, psychology, or design related field with 0 + years of experience in one or more of the following: user research, UX design, visual design and usability testing
• Strong written and oral communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Experience/familiarity working with Adobe Illustrator, Adobe XD, Balsamiq, or other similar design programs
• Experience/familiarity working with engineering teams
• Should be empathetic and curious
• Ability to help serve a team of change agents, influencing and promoting the value of UX/HCD to product design teams

For more information about User Experience and SRC visit us at: https://srcinc.com/capabilities/research-and-development/user-experience.html