Remote UX/UI Designer - Human-Centered (VA Healthcare)

GovCIO; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Certification Assistance

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Education funding support

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking a UX/UI Designer to support a growing portfolio of VA digital experiences. The role is fully remote within the United States and involves hands-on user-centered design, usability evaluation, and high-fidelity prototyping to improve veteran and clinical workflows.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, UI Designers, SMEs, and the UX Lead to translate research into testable artifacts, ensure accessibility, and drive adoption across product teams through iterative design

Qualifications

• 3–6 years of UX/UI usability or product design experience.
• Experience supporting usability evaluations and user-centered validation.
• Experience collaborating with product managers, designers, and developers.
• Strong ability to create UI designs and high-fidelity interactive prototypes anchored in Human-Centered Design.

Responsibilities

• Execute user-centered validation across the product lifecycle including usability sessions and UAT.
• Create UI designs and high-fidelity prototypes grounded in HCD.
• Develop task-based UAT scenarios and success criteria.
• Facilitate UAT sessions, observations, synthesis of findings and recommendations.
• Contribute to accessibility and usability discussions and forums.
• Identify usability risks and opportunities and elevate them to PMs and UX Lead.
• Support iterative improvements based on user feedback and stakeholder input.
• Help translate research insights into testable design artifacts.
• Collaborate closely with PMs, UI Designers, SMEs, and developers.

Skills

UX design

Usability evaluation

Collaboration

Communication

Human-Centered Design

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Tools

Figma

Adobe XD

Job description

GovCIO is seeking a UX/UI Designer to support a growing portfolio of VA digital experiences. The role is fully remote within the United States and involves hands-on user-centered design, usability evaluation, and high-fidelity prototyping to improve veteran and clinical workflows.

You will collaborate with Product Managers, UI Designers, SMEs, and the UX Lead to translate research into testable artifacts, ensure accessibility, and drive adoption across product teams through iterative design