Lead UI/UX Designer, Remote (Part-time)

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We’re currently hiring for a Lead UI/UX Designer (Part-time)

This role is responsible for delivering exceptional user experiences and intuitive application designs.  UI/UX designers will also support or facilitate requirements gathering workshops, communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives, conduct user research and analysis, conduct design reviews of current-state systems and applications, and lead design efforts for future-state user interface elements and user experiences, creating wireframes and mockups. The UI/UX Designer is one of the leaders of a cross-functional team and routinely consults with our agile development teams to ensure design principles are incorporated into agile development sprints.  The successful candidate will be able to take ownership of the UI/UX strategy to deliver adaptive and creative solutions to UI/UX design problems while staying up to date with best practices and emerging trends in user experience design.

Position requires the successful candidate reside and complete all work within the continental United States due to contract requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Conceptualize, design, and implement consistent UI/UX branding or styling, as well as document and maintain standards.

• Support and facilitate requirements gathering and communicate with clients to understand their business goals and objectives, and establish key design tenets to be included in application builds, etc.

• Plan and implement new user-centered designs by understanding business requirements and user needs.

• Conduct design reviews of existing systems and applications.

• Work with customers to shape future state user journeys.

• Plan and conduct user research to understand user affinities, challenges, wish-list items that will help shape future-state vision for modernized applications.

• Illustrate design ideas using storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.

• Translate requirements into style guides, design patterns, and easy to use interfaces.

• Collaborate with architects, developers, and project teams to ensure design elements are incorporated into development sprints.

• Design graphic user interface elements for ServiceNow to include back-end forms, and front-end service portals.

• Take ownership and leadership role of UX strategy on projects. Advise clients and team members on best UI/UX practices in a collaborative and thoughtful way. Mentor junior team members and give them opportunities to build their skills.

Basic Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience to include: Wireframing and UI Prototyping for multi-screen sized experience; Practical experience with Human-Centered Design techniques; Experience conducting user research;Experience bringing UX into Agile teams

• U.S. Citizenship or Green Card Holder required due to federal contract requirements

• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree

• ServiceNow or Appian experience is strongly preferred

• Experience with online collaboration tools such as Mural and InVision

• Experience with wireframing and mockup tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe, etc.

Professional Skills:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Strong time management skills with the ability to work multiple parallel projects at once

Job Location(s): This is a remote position open to all U.S. citizens.

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