SR UI/UX Designer
Job in
Fairfax, Fairfax County, Virginia, 22032, USA
Listed on 2026-06-23
Listing for:
General Dynamics Information Technology
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-06-23
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
UI/UX Design, Technical Writer, Digital Media / Production, Web Developer
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Skills
Adobe Photoshop, Communication, HTML
Experience5 + years of related experience
OverviewWe 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 subject matter expertise in UX design, offering strategic guidance grounded in Human‑Centered Design and design thinking methodologies, including user research, personas, journey mapping, prototyping, mockups, and usability evaluation.
- 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, including generative research with users and business stakeholders, an assessment of current related features, a content review, an information architecture review, an accessibility review, a business process review; and collection of any 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.
- Design 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, and who might use our applications and products in a similar way.
- 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.
- Write and edit plain language content for Development Teams.
- Design, test, and deliver low‑ and high‑fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and interactive web forms, updating them as needed to support stakeholder collaboration, usability testing, facilitated demos, and iterative design improvements.
- Lead user testing sessions and conduct thorough analysis to inform design improvements.
- Establish and uphold design standards across project components.
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure seamless integration of UI/UX designs.
- Work with ReactJS, JavaScript, CSS, HTML and Tailwind to develop and refine user interfaces.
- Design within a micro‑service architecture to create scalable and maintainable solutions.
- MA/MS plus 10+ years of general experience in information systems with 8+ years of specialized experience.
- HS (16+ years), AA/AS (14+ years), BA/BS (12+ years), Doctorate Degree/Ph.D. (9+ years)
- Familiarity with front‑end development and specifically in ReactJS and JavaScript development.
- Familiarity with UX, information architecture, content strategy, and best practices in user centered design.
- Experience with designing software to align to strategic business needs and goals.
- Experience in conducting…
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