UI/UX Designer

Black Cape; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Competitive Salary

Generous Time Off

Exceptional Team-Building & Fun Events

Mentorship & Professional Development

Tuition Reimbursement

Parental Leave

Job summary

Black Cape seeks a talented UI/UX Designer to join our mission-focused team. The role will bridge complex government data into intuitive software, working face-to-face with developers, product owners, and end-users inside secure facilities.

You will lead wireframes, create high-fidelity visuals, and collaborate with analysts and operators to deliver secure interfaces for government customers.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of professional experience.
• Experience onsite with DoD and/or IC customers.
• Design wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for web apps.
• Drive overall visual design, layout, and composition of web applications.
• Experience working with end-users to identify needs, articulate challenges, and propose user-centric solutions.
• Familiarity collaborating with full-stack development teams in agile workflows.
• Portfolio or experience showing wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity visual design (onsite cleared projects preferred).
• Experience with design tools such as Figma or Adobe Creative Suite, and willingness to learn new tools.

Responsibilities

• Wireframing & Low-Fidelity Mockups: distill complex, secure workflows into clean layouts for rapid iteration.
• High-Fidelity Mockups: craft detailed, interactive mockups for highly technical data.
• Collaborative Design: translate analyst and operator feedback into secure, functional interfaces.

Skills

Wireframes

Visual design

User research

Agile teams

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Figma

Adobe CS

Job description

Black Cape

Title: UI/UX Designer

Locations:

• Bethesda, MD
• Washington, DC

Onsite: Expected to go onsite (into a SCIF) 3 - 5 days per week

Clearance: TS/SCI - Must be willing to get a CI Poly

***MUST have an Active TS/SCI clearance and be willing to get a CI Poly***

***If you do NOT have a US Citizenship or a Security Clearance issued by a US Government Customer, we will likely not get back to you. It is a REQUIREMENT of the job.***

Black Cape has Won “Best Places to Work” every year in existence by either the Washington Business Journal & Virginia’s Best Places to Work!

Want to be a part of an intelligent, talented, dynamic, and FUN team and keep building something GREAT?? Then, you should consider Black Cape!

• We work with Department of War (DoW) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers to accomplish their missions
• Come join us to work on cloud-native full-stack web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and machine learning capabilities
• Be a part of a team that is making an impact and HAVE FUN while doing so!

About the company

Black Cape is a unique technology company with a focus on full-stack web applications, advanced data analysis tools, and integrating AI/ML capabilities for federal government customers.

We are a COOL and FUN crew that works hard and plays maybe even a little harder. Our core team is an impressive group of engineers with exceptional leadership at the helm.

Black Cape is led by proven business and engineering leaders with a track record of building innovative technology companies focused on building mission applications. We support many programs and agencies as both a prime and a subcontractor and created a strong reputation working with top tier partners doing work for all major Intelligence Community agencies, DoW, and Special Operations customers.

Our engineer-led software teams develop technical solutions on an aggressive schedule across the DoW and IC to meet customer needs. Our engineers apply proven, repeatable software, technical, and analytical approaches to build solutions and have frequent interaction with end users to produce and deploy solutions.

We bring experience in building, integrating and deploying AI/ML solutions using Google TensorFlow, Python scikit-learn, and other tools. Black Cape’s approach to solution development combines lessons learned from developing and deploying applications to customer cloud environments with industry best practices in Agile development and DevOps.

What we are hiring

We are seeking a talented and security-cleared UI/UX Designer to join our mission-focused team. The systems you build will directly support national security, tactical operations, and critical decision-making for our government customers.

In this role, you will bridge the gap between complex government data and intuitive, human-centered software. Working directly within secure government facilities, you will collaborate face-to-face with developers, product owners, and end-users to drive the visual direction of our applications.

As the core designer for these systems, your primary responsibilities will include:

• Wireframing & Low-Fidelity Mockups: Distilling complex, secure workflows into clean, structural layouts that allow for rapid iteration and alignment among stakeholders.
• High-Fidelity Mockups: Crafting detailed, interactive mockups that bring clarity to highly technical government data and serve as a clear blueprint for developers.
• Collaborative Design: Transforming feedback from analysts and operators into elegant, secure, and highly functional interfaces.

Required Technical Skills (MUST HAVES)

• Must have a Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of professional experience
• Experience working onsite with DoD and/or IC customers
• Strong ability to design wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for web applications
• Strong ability to drive overall visual design, layout, and composition of web applications
• Experience working with end-users to identify their needs, articulate challenges, and propose user-centric solutions
• Familiarity collaborating with full-stack development teams in agile workflows
• A portfolio or experience of recent design projects that demonstrates your skills in wireframing, prototyping, and high-fidelity visual design (if you have been onsite working on proprietary cleared projects - we do understand that you may not have recent visibility into your projects)
• Experience with at least one of the following Design Tools: Figma (most important for this program), Adobe Creative Suite, or similar tools - and/or willingness to learn new tools

Preferred Technical Skills (NICE TO HAVES)

• Experience meeting with application stakeholders directly
• Experience developing User Personas, User Studies, and Information Architecture
• Proficient with JavaScript, CSS, and HTML
• Familiarity with modern frameworks such as React, Angular, or Vue - understand how they work but do not have to have extensive experience coding in them
• Familiarity with accessibility requirements and best practices
• Prior work in environments with strict accreditation and security requirements

• 401K
• Competitive Salary
• Generous Time Off
• Exceptional Team-Building & Fun Company Events
• Mentorship & Professional Development Programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Parental Leave