UX Analyst - AI Enabled Designer

US

Peraton is seeking a UX Analyst to support the DFAS environment by delivering modern, user-centered digital experiences across web and mobile applications.

This is a hands-on UX role focused on moving rapidly from requirements and user needs to high-fidelity, interactive experiences. The UX Analyst will use Figma, AI-assisted design and research tools, design systems, rapid prototyping, usability validation, and accessibility practices to transform complex requirements into intuitive, development-ready solutions.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working directly within Agile product teams and can use AI to accelerate-not replace-UX thinking, research synthesis, design exploration, documentation, accessibility evaluation, and prototyping.

The role requires someone who can take an experience from concept to high-fidelity prototype to development handoff, while collaborating closely with product owners, stakeholders, developers, and end users.

This position is 100% remote.

Responsibilities:

• Support the full UX lifecycle from discovery, requirements analysis, and user research through high-fidelity design, interactive prototyping, validation, development handoff, and implementation review.
• Translate business, mission, technical, and user requirements into clear user journeys, task flows, experience maps, information architecture, and interface solutions.
• Create high-fidelity Figma screens and interactive prototypes that accurately demonstrate intended workflows, interactions, responsive behavior, states, and user outcomes.
• Use AI-assisted UX workflows to accelerate research synthesis, requirements analysis, concept exploration, content development, accessibility review, prototyping, and design iteration.
• Apply strong UX judgment to validate and refine AI-generated concepts rather than relying on AI-generated output without human review.
• Develop and maintain Figma component libraries, variables, reusable patterns, templates, and design-system components that promote consistency and accelerate delivery.
• Create UX artifacts as appropriate, including user journeys, personas, workflows, information architecture, experience maps, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, storyboards, and design specifications.
• Conduct and synthesize user research and stakeholder discovery through interviews, surveys, observation, contextual inquiry, usability testing, heuristic evaluations, and other appropriate research methods.
• Plan, facilitate, and analyze usability testing using interactive prototypes and working applications; translate findings into actionable design recommendations.
• Rapidly iterate concepts using high-fidelity prototypes and AI-enabled prototyping techniques to allow stakeholders and users to experience proposed solutions before development investment.
• Design responsive experiences for desktop, tablet, and mobile environments, considering device capabilities, user context, interaction methods, and platform conventions.
• Ensure designs meet applicable Section 508 and WCAG accessibility requirements, incorporating accessibility into the design process rather than treating compliance as a final review activity.
• Design accessible interaction patterns including keyboard navigation, focus behavior, semantic structure, form interactions, error handling, color contrast, responsive behavior, and assistive-technology considerations.
• Apply established organizational design systems and standards, including U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) patterns when applicable.
• Collaborate directly with product managers, business analysts, developers, architects, accessibility specialists, and stakeholders to ensure proposed experiences are both desirable and technically feasible.
• Provide development-ready Figma specifications and assets, including responsive behavior, component states, interaction logic, icons/SVGs, spacing, sizing, and design-system references.
• Work closely with front-end developers during implementation to ensure the delivered experience accurately reflects the approved UX direction.
• Conduct UX implementation reviews and identify discrepancies between approved designs and developed interfaces.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies including planning, refinement, reviews, demonstrations, retrospectives, and UX/design critiques.
• Clearly communicate and present design rationale, research findings, prototype concepts, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical…