Human Center Design/User Experience Lead

Company: Tista Science and Technology Corporation
Location: Rockville
Posted on: August 2, 2022

Job Description:

Work with a range of stakeholders to elicit an understanding of product vision by supporting strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core product function.Collaborate with a team of product owners and engineering team members on all phases of the software development lifecycleRegularly interact and coordinate with developersIdentify design problems, develop elegant analysis and solutions, and justify design decisions eloquently.Establish and incorporate best practices for accessibility, usability, 508 compliance, web performance, and design into our products and ultimately evangelize a more consistent and delightful user experience.Use appropriate research methodology, tools, and protocols to conduct user-centered research, including but not limited to usability studies, focus groups, and analysis of user behavior.Take a user-centered design / human-centered design approach and rapidly test and iterate your designs.Lead UX Design and direct other designersPerform research, evaluations, and validations of moderate complexity.Perform subjective and objective research both qualitatively and quantitatively, to gather deep end-user understanding.Perform usability/heuristic evaluations and validations across the product or solution lifecycle.Translate concepts into wireframes and mockups that lead to intuitive user experiences.Lead the organization's HCD Community of Practice (CoP) and develop the vision moving forward.Bachelor s Degree in design and development related area. Master's degree preferred. An additional eight (8) years of relevant experience may be substituted for degree requirement.Minimum of five (5) years of Ui/UX experience in an Agile delivery environment supporting incremental development of high-quality, fully tested application component every few weeks.Minimum of five (5) years of experience eliciting requirements and synthesizing information from multiple sources to design rich customer experiencesFront end coding experience is preferred, but not required. Html/css experience and js knowledge is preferred to support crafting designs and supporting the hand-offto developers.Experience working at the enterprise/corporate level to establish best practices and standards.Experience engaging with department leaders and CxO suite.Experience managing UX designers across multiple programs or projects.Proficiency with design and presentation applications (i. e. Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, InVision)Excellent written and verbal communication skills and outstanding research skillsSelf-starter that can work under general direction in a highly collaborative, team-based environmentAbility to obtain a Public Trust

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