Mid Level Ux-Ui Designer

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Full Time VS VA CHESAPEAKE, Chesapeake, VA, US

Requisition

Salary Range: $90,000.00 To $ Annually

• Participate in a SAFe Agile Scrum team environment with a focus on iterative design and continuous improvement
• Elicit and review requirements and translate them into wireframes, workflows, prototypes, and visual design specifications
• Author additional requirements related to interaction design and workflow logic
• Iterate on designs based on qualitative and quantitative research insights and stakeholder input
• Design responsive interfaces that meet accessibility standards (WCAG/Section 508)
• Create and manage UI assets, interaction states, tokens, and design documentation to support development
• Contribute to design system components, patterns, and guidelines using atomic design principles
• Collaborate with analysts, developers, product owners, stakeholders, and other UX professionals to integrate user insights, behavioral data, and business needs into informed design decisions
• Participate actively in collaborative design reviews, presenting design rationale, offering constructive critique, and iterating on solutions to ensure usability, consistency, and alignment with modernization goals
• Collaborate with developers to ensure design feasibility and accurate implementation
• Prepare specs, documentation, and assets for seamless developer handoff
• Conduct basic usability checks or support UX research with testing activities
• Ensure consistency across the application and align designs with modernization objectives
• Ensure all design deliverables comply with security, handling, and data-protection guidelines
• Communicate effectively with customers, stakeholders, and team members
• Perform other duties as assigned

• 4+ years of professional UX / UI / Digital Product design experience
• Level 1 or higher IAT Certification (A+ CE, Security+, CCNA-Security, CND, Network+ CE, SSCP)
• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS), with preference to coursework in Graphic & Web Design, Digital/Interactive Media, Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience Design (UXD), Interaction Design, Human Factors, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Front-end Web Development, or a related field.
• Demonstrated Proficiency in modern design tools, with a strong preference for Figma.
• Demonstrated ability to create wireframes, visual layouts, user flows, and interactive prototypes
• Solid understanding of responsive design and web accessibility requirements
• Familiarity with front-end development concepts (HTML, CSS, component frameworks)
• Demonstrated Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development lifecycle (SAFe Agile experience is a plus)
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Comfortable working both independently and in a collaborative team environment, maintaining productivity and accountability in both settings
• Required:
  
  A professional portfolio with case studies demonstrating user-centered design solutions, responsive layouts, and prototype execution, especially examples of modernizing complex legacy systems.
• If applicable:
  If you are or have been recently employed by the U.S. government, a post-employment ethics letter will be required if employment with VSolvit is offered

• Demonstrated experience designing enterprise applications or systems with complex workflows
• Strong foundational knowledge of UX principles, user research methodologies, and heuristic evaluations
• Demonstrated experience eliciting requirements from users and stakeholders
• Advanced understanding of design systems, token architecture, component library management, and interaction design
• Demonstrated ability to communicate design rationale and facilitate design discussions with technical and non-technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to define problems, collect data, understand user needs, and translate those needs into actionable design requirements
• Demonstrated experience supporting federal, DoD, or defense contractor programs
• Familiarity with secure development…