Mid Level Ux-Ui Designer

Overview

Mid-Level UX/UI Designer is responsible for creating intuitive, modern digital interfaces that support user needs and business objectives. This role focuses on translating UX strategies, user flows, and requirements into polished, high‑fidelity designs while ensuring consistency across products. The designer collaborates closely with UX, product, and engineering teams, contributes to the design system, and helps uphold quality and usability standards throughout the development process.

Hybrid role in Chesapeake, VA.

• 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

• US Citizenship
• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• 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…