Lead UX Designer: Legacy Modernization & Enterprise UX

Stealth Talent Solutions; Maryland; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Stealth Talent Solutions in Maryland seeks a Lead UX Designer to drive modernization efforts, replacing a legacy AS400 with a cloud-based PMIS for multiple state agencies. This role blends strategic UX leadership with hands-on design across an enterprise transformation, shaping user experiences and design systems.

You will translate complex processes into intuitive experiences, develop personas and journeys, and ensure ADA/WCAG compliance while guiding roadmaps and UX artifacts for the program.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in UX Design, HCI, or related field.
• 8+ years of UX/UI, product design, or related experience.
• Experience leading UX for large-scale enterprise, government, or complex modernization programs.
• Strong experience with user research, journey mapping, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.
• Strong understanding of accessibility and user-centered design.
• Experience working with business stakeholders, technical teams, vendors, and senior leadership.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and presentation skills.
• Ability to simplify complex business processes and workflows through thoughtful UX design.

Responsibilities

• Lead UX strategy and hands-on design across the modernization program.
• Conduct user research, stakeholder interviews, workshops, and usability assessments.
• Translate complex legacy business processes and technical requirements into intuitive user experiences.
• Develop personas, user journeys, process flows, information architecture, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Support the Launchpad process through user-centered requirements, UX artifacts, workflows, and documentation.
• Facilitate design sessions with business users, product owners, developers, architects, project managers, and implementation partners.
• Establish UX standards, reusable patterns, and design systems across enterprise applications.
• Ensure designs meet ADA, WCAG, accessibility, and applicable State of Maryland standards.
• Review vendor and implementation-partner deliverables for UX quality and consistency.
• Identify usability risks before solutions move into development or production.
• Support UAT and incorporate user feedback into iterative improvements.
• Maintain UX documentation and design decisions as a central source of truth.
• Provide UX input into product roadmaps, enhancements, prioritization, and solution decisions.

Skills

UX Design

User Research

Journey Mapping

Wireframing

Prototyping

Usability Testing

Accessibility

Stakeholder Facilitation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in UX

HCI / Related Field

Tools

Figma

Adobe XD

Sketch

Job description

Stealth Talent Solutions in Maryland seeks a Lead UX Designer to drive modernization efforts, replacing a legacy AS400 with a cloud-based PMIS for multiple state agencies. This role blends strategic UX leadership with hands-on design across an enterprise transformation, shaping user experiences and design systems.

You will translate complex processes into intuitive experiences, develop personas and journeys, and ensure ADA/WCAG compliance while guiding roadmaps and UX artifacts for the program.