UI/UX Designer - Clearance Required

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 102,000 - 174,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work flexibility

Diverse mission-focused projects

Travel may be required

Job summary

Jobgether seeks an experienced UI/UX designer to lead discovery, create extensive design systems, and deliver user-centered interfaces for complex platforms. You will collaborate with product, engineering, cybersecurity, and customer teams to ensure accessibility, responsiveness, and robust interaction design across multiple applications.

The role requires a Secret clearance, a strong portfolio, and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance required and maintainable.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Portfolio demonstrating user research, interaction and visual design.
• Proficiency in Figma or comparable design/prototyping tools.
• Experience in user research, usability testing and translating findings.
• Ability to design complex interfaces and reusable design systems.
• Experience collaborating with developers and accessibility practices.
• Willingness to travel periodically.
• Experience with Agile delivery and tools like GitLab or Jira.
• Knowledge of federal accessibility requirements preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead interviews, workflow observations, and discovery sessions with users and stakeholders.
• Translate findings into prioritized user needs, journey maps, and design requirements.
• Develop information architecture, navigation structures, user flows, wireframes, and prototypes.
• Create dashboards, data tables, search, forms, and approval workflows.
• Establish consistent design systems across products.
• Account for loading, empty, error, permission and connectivity states.
• Plan usability tests, analyze task completion and error rates, and refine designs.
• Apply accessibility and responsive design principles in collaboration with teams.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, platform engineers, and cybersecurity.
• Provide annotated designs, specs, and acceptance criteria; review implementations.
• Present decisions and trade-offs to customers and leadership; update artefacts.

Skills

User research

Information architecture

UX design

Communication

Problem-solving

Travel availability

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in HCI/UX/Interaction Design or related field

Tools

Figma

HTML/CSS

Front-end frameworks

GitLab

Jira

Job description

Accountabilities

• Conduct user research and discovery: Lead interviews, workflow observations, and discovery sessions with operational users and stakeholders. Translate findings into prioritized user needs, journey maps, and design requirements.
• Design user-centered interfaces: Develop information architecture, navigation structures, user flows, wireframes, high-fidelity screens, and interactive prototypes for web applications and integrated platforms.
• Simplify complex workflows and information: Create intuitive dashboards, data tables, search experiences, forms, and approval workflows that support clear understanding and efficient task completion.
• Develop and maintain design systems: Establish consistent standards for typography, layout, colors, reusable components, interaction patterns, and design guidance across multiple products.
• Design comprehensive interaction states: Account for loading, empty, error, permission, confirmation, and limited-connectivity scenarios, ensuring users receive clear feedback and practical recovery options.
• Test and improve usability: Plan and conduct usability testing, analyze task completion and error rates, collect user feedback, and refine designs through iterative improvements.
• Promote accessibility and responsive design: Apply accessibility principles to layouts, contrast, keyboard navigation, focus states, and interface content while coordinating validation with engineering and testing teams.
• Collaborate across multidisciplinary teams: Partner with product managers, developers, platform engineers, and cybersecurity personnel to align designs with mission priorities, technical constraints, access controls, and delivery schedules.
• Support implementation and quality assurance: Provide annotated designs, component specifications, visual assets, and acceptance criteria. Review implemented interfaces and resolve usability and visual-quality issues before release.
• Communicate design decisions and maintain documentation: Present recommendations and trade-offs to customers and leadership, maintain version-controlled design artifacts, and incorporate feedback into ongoing product development.

Requirements:

• Professional experience: At least five years of experience in UI/UX design, product design, interaction design, or a closely related field, including designing software applications.
• Security clearance: An active Secret security clearance is required, with the ability to maintain it throughout employment.
• Education: A bachelor’s degree in interaction design, human-computer interaction, user experience, visual design, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Portfolio: A portfolio demonstrating user research, interaction design, visual design, and contributions to delivered software products. Sanitized case studies or authorized walkthroughs are acceptable for work subject to restrictions.
• Design and prototyping tools: Proficiency in Figma or comparable interface design and prototyping tools, including reusable components, responsive layouts, and interactive prototypes.
• Research and usability testing: Experience conducting user research and usability evaluations and translating findings into design decisions and measurable improvements.
• Complex interface design: Demonstrated ability to design sophisticated application workflows, information-dense interfaces, consistent navigation structures, and reusable design systems.
• Development collaboration: Experience working with software developers, documenting interaction behavior, and reviewing implemented interfaces, along with familiarity with accessibility and responsive design practices.
• Communication and problem-solving: Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and independent problem-solving skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across distributed teams and participate in periodic travel.
• Preferred government or regulated-sector experience: Background designing software for military, federal government, national security, or other regulated environments.
• Preferred platform and product expertise: Experience designing unified interfaces across multiple applications, role-based workspaces, data and analytics platforms, or AI-enabled tools.
• Preferred specialized design experience: Familiarity with operational dashboards, geospatial interfaces, robotics or autonomous systems, or workflows operating under time and connectivity constraints.
• Preferred technical knowledge: Familiarity with HTML, CSS, and component-based front-end frameworks sufficient to collaborate effectively with developers; production software development is not required.
• Preferred Agile experience: Experience supporting Agile delivery, maintaining design work in product backlogs, and collaborating through tools such as GitLab, Jira, or comparable platforms.
• Preferred accessibility expertise: Experience designing for federal accessibility requirements and working with accessibility specialists to validate implemented interfaces.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary: Target annual salary range of $102,000–$174,000, depending on qualifications, experience, location, internal equity, business considerations, contractual requirements, and security clearance.
• Remote work: Remote position offering flexibility in work location.
• Varied mission-focused projects: Opportunity to design interfaces for robotics, autonomous systems, AI-enabled tools, data platforms, and complex government applications.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Work closely with design, product, engineering, cybersecurity, and customer teams throughout the product lifecycle.
• Periodic travel: Travel may be required for user research, design workshops, demonstrations, and customer engagements. Classified work must be performed at approved facilities.
• Additional benefits: Specific details regarding healthcare, retirement plans, paid time off, and other benefits are not provided in the supplied job description.