UI/UX Specialist – Journeyman

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Illinois.

📋 Description

• Strategize and execute user research involving mission owners, operational users, and program stakeholders.

• Assess user needs, business processes, pain points, accessibility issues, and mission workflows.

• Convert research insights and functional specifications into user flows, journey maps, wireframes, mockups, and interactive prototypes.

• Create user-friendly and accessible interfaces for intricate accession-processing and mission-support workflows.

• Design and uphold reusable UI components, interaction patterns, style guidelines, and design-system documentation.

• Partner with requirements analysts on usability and accessibility matters, user stories, and acceptance criteria.

• Collaborate with software developers to transform approved designs into functional web interfaces.

• Support front-end implementation and offer design direction throughout the development process.

• Evaluate interfaces for visual accuracy, usability, responsiveness, consistency, and accessibility.

• Establish usability and accessibility acceptance criteria.

• Perform accessibility assessments through manual reviews, automated testing tools, keyboard testing, and assistive technologies.

• Ensure compliance with Section 508 and Government-approved accessibility standards.

• Organize and lead usability testing, prototype evaluations, sprint demonstrations, and user-validation sessions.

• Record user feedback, pinpoint usability issues, and suggest prioritized enhancements.

• Assist in user acceptance testing and confirm that delivered interfaces align with approved requirements.

• Collaborate with development and testing teams to address usability and accessibility defects.

• Enhance the usability, accessibility, navigation, and organization of the user collaboration platform.

• Promote responsive design across desktop, laptop, tablet, and mobile platforms.

• Contribute interface guidance and visual content to user manuals, job aids, release notes, and training resources.

• Organize design files, research outcomes, accessibility evaluations, prototypes, and documentation in sanctioned repositories.

• Engage in Agile planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and release-readiness activities.

• Advocate for user-centered design, inclusive design, and ongoing improvement throughout the software-development lifecycle.

⛳️ Requirements

• Active Secret clearance or a higher level of clearance.

• Bachelor's degree in human-computer interaction, design, computer science, or a related field, or an equivalent recognized by the applicable labor category.

• Minimum of six years of relevant professional experience.

• Experience in planning or executing user research and translating findings into actionable design insights.

• Proficient in designing and assisting in the implementation of web user interfaces.

• Familiarity with evaluating web interfaces for accessibility.

• Experience in developing user flows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, or reusable interface patterns.

• Capability to convert complex mission workflows and business requirements into intuitive user experiences.

• Ability to define and assess usability and accessibility acceptance criteria.

• Adept at supporting user-validation activities and integrating stakeholder feedback into design enhancements.

• Strong collaboration skills with users, requirements analysts, developers, testers, trainers, and Government stakeholders.

• Excellent visual communication, analytical, problem-solving, facilitation, and technical documentation abilities.

🏝️ Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer.

• Authorization for DecisionPoint to share submitted resume and personal information with subsidiaries, affiliates, and teaming partners for consideration for this and comparable positions.