AI Product Experience Architect IV with Security Clearance

Responsibilities Noblis is seeking an AI Product Experience Architect IV to support our customer in Chantilly VA. The AI Product Experience Architect will lead the coordinated product strategy, experience architecture, and workflow development necessary to achieve core AI platform functionality by applying deep expertise in human-centered systems thinking, complex workflow orchestration, and behavioral understanding across highly interconnected entry and exit points.

In this capacity, the incumbent leverages expert experience in product strategy, interaction design, innovation, and user psychology to guide stakeholders toward discovering and realizing their ideal future-state workflows through intuitive, seamless, and highly adaptive user experiences that meet operational objectives at mission speed, drive enterprise application adoption, and deliver Section 508-compliant, modern user experiences. The role is responsible for generating product demand by uncovering latent user problems, mapping complex investigative workflows, analyzing user/mission needs, and translating them into compelling, intuitive, and high-impact design solutions.

The ideal candidate must be an expert in transforming ambiguous ideas into clear, intuitive, and actionable product experiences channeling deep experience, while serving as a systems thinker skilled in designing end-to-end user journeys, information architecture, and interaction flows that feel effortless and self-explanatory. Additionally, the position requires mastery in behavioral-driven UX design, rapid prototyping, and iterative usability testing to refine and validate experience quality, alongside a proven ability to guide multidisciplinary design teams, manage experience delivery, and utilize specialized environmental constraints such as tactical Dark Theme UI architectures to optimize user cognitive mapping under high-stress operational conditions and guarantee platform stickiness.

Key Responsibilities
* Drives coordinated product strategy, experience architecture, and workflow development to achieve core AI platform functionality, aligning design decisions with mission objectives and enterprise adoption goals.
* Designs end-to-end user journeys, information architecture, and interaction flows across highly interconnected entry and exit points, ensuring experiences feel effortless and self-explanatory.
* Maps complex investigative workflows, uncovers latent user problems, and translates ambiguous requirements into clear, intuitive, and actionable product experiences.
* Applies deep expertise in user psychology, behavioral science, and cognitive load theory to design adaptive user experiences that optimize decision-making under high-stress operational conditions.
* Guides stakeholders toward discovering and realizing their ideal future-state workflows through facilitated design thinking sessions, journey mapping, and collaborative visioning exercises.
* Leads rapid prototyping cycles and iterative usability testing to refine and validate experience quality, ensuring design solutions meet operational objectives at mission speed.
* Ensures all user experiences meet Section 508 accessibility standards while maintaining modern, high-impact design quality across all platform touchpoints.
* Utilizes specialized environmental constraints, including tactical Dark Theme UI architectures, to optimize user cognitive mapping and guarantee platform stickiness in operational environments.
* Guides multidisciplinary design teams, manages experience delivery across sprints and Program Increments, and establishes design system governance and standards.
* Generates product demand by uncovering latent user problems, analyzing user/mission needs, and translating them into compelling, high-impact design solutions that drive enterprise adoption.

Required Qualifications
* US Citizenship is required.
* Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and ability to obtain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph.
* Bachelor's or Master's degree in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Cognitive Science, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, User Experience, or a related field.
* 10+ years of progressive experience in product design, UX/UI design, or experience architecture, with at least 8 years leading product strategy and experience design for complex, mission-critical systems and at least 3 years designing AI-enabled or intelligent system interfaces.
* Must provide a comprehensive portfolio demonstrating mastery in end-to-end experience architecture, complex workflow design, and systems-level interaction design for enterprise or mission-critical platforms.
* Minimum of 10 years supporting product design or experience architecture within government agencies, intelligence community, federal contractors, or highly regulated public sector environments, with demonstrated experience across multiple programs or agencies.
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