UX/Web Designer

Responsibilities

 

Peraton is an industry leader providing innovative solutions for space, critical Intelligence Community missions, and offensive and defensive cyber operations.  Peraton is seeking an experienced and motivated UX/Web Designer to join our team in Melbourne, FL.,

 

The UX/Web Designer will be responsible for the following but not limited to:

• Creates innovative solutions for a wide variety of product design challenges, including mobile, desktop, hardware interfaces, physical environments, and person-to-person interactions.
• Leads the design for new experiences and improvements of existing experiences.
• Plans and defines strategy for the direction of future iterations.
• Quickly iterates on multiple interactive design solutions and work through details.
• Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influenced the decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.
• Develops high level, detailed storyboards, mock-ups, and prototypes to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas.
• Delivers work that’s not only user-friendly, aesthetically engaging, but which also produces results.
• Works alongside engineers and product managers throughout all stages of the production cycle.
• Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
• Develops and maintains detailed user-interface specifications.
• Presents design work to multiple teams and senior leadership for review and feedback.
• Contributes to the group’s shared knowledge of user-centered design and research methodologies.

 

Qualifications

 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree with minimum of 8 years of experience, or MS Degree with 6 years of experience or PhD with minimum of 3 years of experience. Will consider additional experience in lieu of degree
• 3+ years of experience as a user experience designer, interaction designer, information architect, or similar role
• A portfolio or samples of work demonstrating experience creating great user-centered design solutions
• Experience designing and shipping products for mobile and desktop
• Experience with a variety of design and prototyping tools such as Illustrator, Sketch, Balsamiq, Hype, Axure, Figma, etc
• Fluency in best practices for web-based information architecture and design
• Strong knowledge of usability principles and techniques
• Excellent communication, presentation, and storytelling skills
• Experience working in a collaborative multi-disciplinary team and working directly with developers for implementation of designs
• Experience in an Agile/scrum environment

 

Desired Qualifications:

• Master’s in Human Factors, HCDE, or Cognitive Psychology
• Experience with user testing 

 

Target Salary Range

$112,000 - $179,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.