Product Designer

The Mission Starts Here

At TheIncLab, we engineer and deliver advanced systems that revolutionize how our customers and mission-critical teams achieve success. As a key member of our Product Team, you will use user-centered design methods to create user experiences for software development projects from conception to execution.

Join us in shaping the future of product design. If you are ready to make an impact and help design next generation user interfaces and applications that support tactical operations, apply today!

Why Join TheIncLab?

You will be part of a collaborative and innovative team, and a growing company that understands the development of career pathways, and the success of each of its employees, is the essential ingredient to enable it to deliver for customers.

You will have substantial opportunities to have meaningful impact. You will collaborate with mission stakeholders and customers, and contribute to the design of complex, resilient systems architectures that support critical defense and national security missions. You will work at the forefront of tactical systems, communication networks, cloud infrastructures, and unmanned autonomous systems for defense applications.

Your Assignment: Product Designer

As a Product Designer at TheIncLab, you will play a key role in analyzing existing systems, help develop requirements for new systems, create wireframes and mockups, understand best practices, and work with application users to create modern, clean, intuitive applications. You will have the opportunity to work closely with a diverse team of designers, developers, and engineers to bring powerful concepts to reality.

What will you do?

• Collaborate daily with the product team to design unique user experiences through user flows, process flows, wireframes, and storyboards.
• Embrace emerging standards while promoting best practices to drive UX strategies.
• Research and develop new and innovative ways to deliver content and functionality to end-users.
• Create intuitive user interfaces that are accessible to users that have limited technical proficiency.
• Create interactive wireframe prototypes and have advanced technical understanding of tools such as Illustrator, Figma, Adobe XD, Photoshop.
• Collaborate with end-users to understand their intent and needs for the application.
• Analyze user feedback and actively look to iterate/improve user experience.
• Build prototypes to assist in user research, using low- to high-fidelity techniques, and/or build design tools to empower a design team.
• Communicate and present design concepts, insights, and product demos to clients.
• Occasionally help identify and troubleshoot issues or bugs.
• Work closely with the development team to deliver assets needed for implementation.
• Complete tasks within budgeted time and work with management to escalate any project and/or task issues.
• Be resourceful with the ability to learn and adapt quickly to project issues, changes, or updates.
• Ability to travel up to 20%.

Requirements

Please include a URL for an online portfolio in addition to your resume. Submissions with a portfolio will be given more consideration.

Clearance Requirements

• Applicants must be a U.S. Citizen
• Applicants must be willing and eligible to obtain a “Secret” Security Clearance

Required Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in design (I.E.: interaction, graphic, visual communications, product, industrial), Human Computer Interaction, Computer Science, related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 3+ years of UX/UI design or engineering experience or equivalent experience.
• Proficient with design tools such as Figma and Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe XD, Illustrator, and Photoshop).
• Demonstrated experience in designing for a variety of platforms (desktop, mobile, web).
• Demonstrated experience working in product teams.
• Demonstrated critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Knowledge of design in web development (HTML, CSS3, JavaScript, React) is a plus.
• Knowledge of 3D tools and workflows such as Blender, C4D, and Maya is a plus.
• Knowledge of game design and game engine workflows (Unity) is a plus.

Benefits

What We Offer

At TheIncLab we recognize that innovation thrives when employees are provided with the support and resources, they need to be successful in balancing career and life. TheIncLab offers a range of benefits. As part of our team, you will enjoy:

• Hybrid and Flexible Work Environment that supp