Senior Principal UX Engineer - Research-Driven UX

Clarity Innovations; Columbia (MD); Vor Ort; USD 93.000 - 255.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Clarity Innovations is hiring a Senior Principal UI/UX Designer to own user experience and interface design within an XP product team. You’ll spend substantial time with users, conducting interviews, observations and usability testing, translating insights into ship-ready designs with engineers every iteration.

The role focuses on DoW mission contexts, building a design system, and prioritizing accessibility and usability in complex, data-heavy workflows.

Qualifikationen

• 5+ years UI/UX or product design experience with a portfolio including research case studies.
• Experience planning, conducting and synthesizing generative and evaluative research.
• Skilled interviewer who builds rapport with experts and non-technical users.
• Ability to recruit participants and sustain regular research cadence within iterations.
• Experience designing enterprise analytics or data-heavy applications.
• Experience using AI tools to speed up research synthesis, ideation and prototyping.
• Understanding of DoW use cases and design principles for high-stakes environments.
• At least 2 years on an XP team or equivalent agile practice.
• Strong interaction, IA and visual design skills.
• Clear communication of research findings to engineers, PMs and executives.

Aufgaben

• Lead ongoing user research as part of every iteration: interviews, field observation and usability tests.
• Build and maintain access to users and stakeholders, including expert users.
• Synthesize findings into personas, journey maps and opportunities to guide priorities.
• Turn research into hypotheses and user stories with UX acceptance criteria.
• Validate designs with real users before and after release and track usability metrics.
• Involve engineers in interviews and testing and maintain a shared research repository.
• Use AI tools to speed up synthesis and prototyping while keeping human judgment central.
• Own end-to-end UX for product areas: flows, IA, interaction and visual design.

Kenntnisse

UI/UX design

User research

Interviewing

Prototyping

Design systems

Figma

HTML/CSS basics

Cross-functional collaboration

Ausbildung

HCI or related degree

Tools

React

TypeScript

CSS

Jobbeschreibung

Clarity Innovations is hiring a Senior Principal UI/UX Designer to own user experience and interface design within an XP product team. You’ll spend substantial time with users, conducting interviews, observations and usability testing, translating insights into ship-ready designs with engineers every iteration.

The role focuses on DoW mission contexts, building a design system, and prioritizing accessibility and usability in complex, data-heavy workflows.