Senior Designer (remote)

Primary Responsibilities: 

In this role, you will serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Designer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s design strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Designer include:

• Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management
• May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads 
• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
• Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions
• Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize design activities
• Responsible for working with users to support the development of effective designs
• Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy
• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
• Demonstrates the ability to coach designers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways
• Manages the development of competitive analysis, and reports results to stakeholders
• Contributes to the design libraries and provides visual design and brand artifacts
• Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements 
• Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions 
• Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks 
• Participates in grading candidate homework and participating in panel interviews

Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years of experience 
  • Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• LCAT may dictate specifics regarding Education and Experience requirements; please specify contractual requirements
• Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members
• Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience conducting research studies and synthesis.
• Experience facilitating discussions with multi-disciplined teams
• Experience with a migration project 
• Design system experience 

To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit: https://adhocteam.us/join/

Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $108,006 - $122,023 and information on benefits offered is here. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.

Job Ref # 2076