UX Designer - Clearance Required

UX Designer - Clearance Required

Job Location:

US-CA-San Diego

• Job :
• # of Openings: 1
• Benefit Type:
  Salaried High Fringe/Full-Time

LMI is seeking an experienced mid-level UX Designer with Human‑Centered Design experience to support a DoD digital transformation effort hosted on a DoD‑accredited cloud platform in AWS Gov Cloud. This role sits at the intersection of user research, experience design, and government product development.

This position requires an active Secret DoD clearance, can be hybrid, but preference will be given to a San Diego, CA candidate.

The selected candidate will lead Human‑Centered Design across a portfolio of mission applications. This is a discovery‑first, design‑led role: the work begins with understanding user needs and ends with validated design directions that inform technical build. Outputs establish the design standard for digital products that operate up to and including an IL6 environment.

This is not a visual design or brand role. The selected candidate will operate at the intersection of:

• Human‑centered design research and facilitation in a government program context
• Working within the constraints of accredited AWS Gov Cloud up to and including IL6
• Mission workflows across operational, administrative, and enterprise domains

You will serve as the primary design and research lead on a small, senior team, translating user needs into validated prototypes that become the repeatable standard for digital product development.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial‑grade platforms and mission‑ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission‑ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

• Plan and conduct user interviews and contextual inquiry sessions with operators, mission staff, and key stakeholders across classification levels
• Map current‑state workflows, such as how users accomplish mission tasks today, where friction exists, and where manual processes create risk or delay
• Identify pain points, workarounds, and unmet needs across operational and enterprise domains
• Develop and document user personas, journey maps, and prioritized problem statements to anchor design decisions

• Translate research findings into information architecture, user flows, and wireframes for mission applications
• Develop low‑ and mid‑fidelity prototypes suitable for structured usability testing with target users
• Facilitate usability testing sessions, synthesize findings, and iterate on design based on user feedback
• Produce validated design directions and annotated prototypes ready to inform technical build across successive application efforts

• Work directly with Government Technical Leads and program teams to align design direction to mission requirements and platform constraints
• Coordinate with the platform team to understand technical boundaries of AWS Gov Cloud environments that affect design decisions
• Document design decisions, research findings, usability results, and open questions in Git Lab in alignment with established project conventions
• Author Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for key design choices made during HCD phases
• Support handoff from HCD phase to technical build teams by delivering design specifications, annotated wireframes, and prioritized backlogs of design requirements

• Active DoD Secret clearance
• 3+ years of demonstrated experience in Human‑Centered Design, UX research, or service design with government or defense programs strongly preferred
• Proficiency in planning and conducting user…