UI/UX Designer Sr. Principal
Job in
Fairfax, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22032, USA
Listed on 2026-05-25
Listing for:
General Dynamics Information Technology
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-05-25
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
UI/UX Design, Digital Media / Production, Technical Writer, Web Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior UI/UX Expert to join our dynamic team. The ideal candidate will be a UI/UX Subject Matter Expert with comprehensive expertise in Human‑Centered Design (HCD) and design thinking. This role requires a candidate who can provide detailed and useful interface design specifications to development teams, ensuring the creation of intuitive, user‑friendly applications.
Key Responsibilities- Provide UI/UX Subject Matter Expertise with deep knowledge of Human‑Centered Design and design‑thinking methodologies.
- Offer expert guidance on user experience (UX) design direction and strategy.
- Act as a subject matter expert in User Experience Design, including Human Centered Design, User Research, User Personas, User Journeys, Developing, Prototyping, Design Mock‑ups, and Evaluating Usability.
- Create and deliver a User Experience (UX) Research Plan and Outcomes for each use case, which shall include a research write‑up documenting goals, anticipated outcomes, research questions, hypotheses, methodology, recruiting needs, synthesis, and next steps.
- Facilitate discovery activities such as generative research with users and business stakeholders, assessment of current related features, a content review, an information architecture review, an accessibility review, a business process review, and collection of available data and analytics, and provide a User Experience Research Checklist.
- Partner with other Product Teams to ensure that the new tool or service fits into the existing structure.
- Lead the design and development of user interfaces for various applications, ensuring they are visually appealing, user‑friendly, and efficient.
- Provide clear and actionable interface design specifications to development teams.
- Develop dynamic forms and other complex UI components, including rich cards and drag & drop features.
- Define and maintain UX frameworks and templates for developers to use during the coding process.
- Apply insights from user experience research studies to describe product functionality, including epics and user stories, as well as operational, business, functional, technical, data, and integration requirements.
- Support design synthesis activities and generate insights and opportunities for improvement. Communicate research findings through a variety of formats such as insight reports, stories, videos, storyboards, etc. to maximize relevance and impact.
- Perform requirements analysis based on User Experience Research, obtaining stakeholder input from internal users and external users.
- Develop User Personas to represent user types that have wants and needs of our applications and products.
- Create Customer and User Journey Maps and capture related data.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams, including product owners, developers, and other designers.
- Conduct usability testing sessions to gather feedback on designs and apply results to refine designs.
- Create prototypes to help visualize design.
- Write and edit plain language content for Development Teams.
- Create and test low‑, medium‑, and high‑fidelity wireframes and prototypes in collaboration with stakeholders.
- Craft, test, and deploy design deliverables, including wireframes, low‑ and high‑fidelity prototypes, or interactive web forms to facilitate usability testing and agile development of health products.
- As appropriate, create and update prototypes to conduct facilitated demos or usability testing to elicit feedback for improvements to the design.
- Lead user testing sessions and conduct thorough analysis to inform design improvements.
- Establish and uphold design standards across projects.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure seamless integration of UI/UX designs.
- Work with React
JS, JavaScript, CSS, and Tailwind to develop and refine user interfaces. - Design within a micro‑service architecture to create scalable and maintainable solutions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, UI/UX Design, Graphic Design or related field.
- Experience in front‑end development and specifically in React
JS and JavaScript development. - Familiarity with UX, information architecture, content strategy, and best practices…
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