UX Researcher - Clearance Required

US-PA-Pittsburgh | US-Remote

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LMI is seeking a talented UX Researcher to join our agile team developing software solutions to support a DOD Army program.

This position requires an active Secret clearance.

As a UX Researcher at LMI, your primary role will be to help define the future of the product, ensuring solutions are user-friendly and intuitive. You will develop research plans, conduct discovery interviews and observational research, and translate these findings into actionable insights. Your responsibilities will include creating personas, storyboards, user stories, and documenting business requirements optimized for various devices and interfaces.

You will collaborate with a small, experienced cross‒functional team to help communicate and advocate for our user's needs.

In this role, you will guide government clients through design thinking processes, incorporating human-centered and design thinking methods to solve end-to-end digital employee experience challenges.

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.

• Work cross‒functionally to establish research goals and employ various research methodologies to answer research questions.
• Plan and facilitate different research strategies with various types of users to gain further insight into our user's needs.
• Evaluate research findings and compile them into actionable insights to inform design and development processes.
• Communicate and advocate for research findings with government stakeholders and decision‑makers in compelling ways using a variety of visual mediums.
• Formulate system requirements and solutions or identify enhancements to existing systems; define requirements and specifications.
• Communicate research findings with UX design team to help create seamless and intuitive user journeys throughout various sections in the application.
• Work collaboratively with system architects and data engineers to ensure system requirements and user's needs are aligned throughout the application.
• Craft compelling stories and visual models to communicate insights and discoveries.

Percentage of

Travel Required:

15%

Minimum:

• Bachelor's degree in a human behavior related field (or equivalent work experience)
• 5years of experience in UI/UX research.
• Well-developed analytical, diagnostic, and system-thinking skills.
• Experience in managing user relationships, including determining user needs/requirements, managing user expectations, and demonstrating commitment to delivering quality results.
• Experience moderating usability studies and generating actionable insights from findings.
• Experience in group facilitation, including with groups of senior organizational leaders.
• Ability to develop artifacts to support requirements documentation, examples include user journey maps, data flow diagrams, interface analyses, and/or information architecture diagrams, etc.
• Demonstrated ability to use MS Office Suite to include Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Superior communication skills,…