ICF is hiringSenior UX/UI Designer
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**This role can be completely remote, sitting anywhere within the US**
We seek a Senior UX/UI Designer to apply user-centered principles to the design and creation of custom software solutions and complex digital services in the federal government healthcare space. This is a unique opportunity to work on highly impactful projects and contribute to the development and continuous improvement of digital solutions to modernize public health priorities in a user-centric way. We are a dynamic, diverse, and highly collaborative group that works at the intersection of design, research, and product development to help create experiences that our customers love.
As a Senior UX/UI Designer you will be a key part of our growing team of designers, researchers, and writers. You will collaborate with other members of Agile product teams to design and deliver experiences that are useful, usable, beautiful, and intuitive. You will work to put your users first; whether they are individual patients managing their own healthcare, service providers delivering care, or analysts using health data to guide health policy.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work with UX leadership and product owners to implement a UX vision and strategy that aligns with business objectives.
- Build empathy with users by collaborating with researchers, consuming insights, leading participatory design, and other activities in order to develop validated UX designs.
- Ideate individually and collaboratively to discover and develop user experiences to solve the most important problems.
- Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mockups to describe, communicate, and test proposed user experiences.
- Work with quality assurance and development teams to ensure user experiences are implemented successfully.
- Contribute to client and stakeholder management by communicating the design process, advocating for users, and clarifying the rationale of design decisions.
- Manage individual time and tasks in order to deliver great designs efficiently and on-time as part of a broader team
- Use an Agile UX process to iterate on user experience and improve user outcomes.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in design, human computer interaction or related field.
- 5+ years of applied UX design experience in the software industry.
- Able to provide a portfolio demonstrating a strong design process and deliverables including UX, UI, interaction, visual, and/or content designs applied to software development.
- 3+ years of experience in creation of and work with design systems, style guides, content guides, and proven industry patterns to deliver UX as part of a broader consistent ecosystem.
- 3+ years of experience in creation of designs that are easy to use, accessible, and visually appealing to the user.
- 3+ years experience in expert usage of tools such as Figma, Adobe Creative Cloud, and Sketch.
- Candidate must reside in the US, be authorized to work in the US, and work must be performed in the US
- Candidate must have resided in the US 3 of the last 5 years
- Candidate must be eligible for public trust.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Master's degree
- Knowledge of WCAG 2.0 Level AA / Section 508 compliance
- Experience in federal contracting or healthcare IT
Professional Skills:
- Demonstrate excellent written, visual, and verbal communication.
- Ability to work successfully with a cross-functional, diverse, and distributed remote development team.
- Strong critical thinking, problem- solving and analytical skills
- Strong organizational skills with attention to detail.
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