UX UI Designer

Arcarithm; Huntsville (AL); Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401K plan

Performance incentives

Flexible remote work

Job summary

Arcarithm, based in Huntsville, AL, is seeking an experienced UX/UI Designer to stand up the design practice for NASA-facing analytics applications. You will design interfaces, dashboards, data tables, and visualizations from research through production-ready designs.

This founding role requires creating a design system, establishing personas, and leading user research, while collaborating with engineers, data scientists, and program staff. Remote work is supported as part of flexible schedules.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in design, HCI, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• Minimum of 8 years of experience.
• Proven experience designing data-heavy analytics products like dashboards, data tables, charts, and workflows.
• Strong data visualization capabilities.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Experience creating a design system from scratch.
• Experience defining personas and running user research.
• Ability to own design decisions end-to-end.

Responsibilities

• Design system: create and maintain the team’s design system as source of truth.
• Research and personas: define user personas and conduct user research to inform design decisions.
• Data-heavy UI design: produce high-fidelity prototypes and production-ready designs for dashboards, tables, charts, and visualizations.
• Data visualization: select effective representations for complex data and audience.
• UX deliverables: flows, wireframes, and other UX artifacts; defend design decisions.
• Standards and practice: establish design process, standards, and tooling; set quality bar.
• Collaboration: work with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and program staff to turn requirements into usable software.

Skills

Figma proficiency

Data visualization

UX design

Education

Bachelor's degree in design or HCI

Job description

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UX UI Designer

Arcarithm is located in beautiful, downtown Huntsville, AL, one of the fastest growing cities in the U.S.! At Arcarithm, we cultivate and foster an environment of integrity, open communication, work life balance, and career development. We are committed to investing in our employees by offering comprehensive health insurance options, a generous 401K plan, competitive salaries, continuous career growth opportunities, flexible schedules including remote work,mentoringand performance incentives.

Arcarithm is currently seeking top talent in the areas of full stack software development, artificial intelligence, optimization, and data analytics. You will work in a dynamic and challenging environment alongside our customers which include Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA on cutting edge technologies including machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, big data analytics, and more!

We are excited to continue to change and improve the world through innovation and technology!

Job Title: UX/UI Designer

Job Location: Remote

Job Description:

The Digital Innovation & Integration Service Capability (DIISC), a team within the Aerospace Capabilities Portfolio Office (ACPO), builds the software that NASA’s aeronautics community uses to explore test data, forecasts, financials, and operational data. These are data-heavy analytics applications, and this role exists to make that data usable: designing the interfaces (dashboards, data tables, charts, and data-exploration workflows) through which people work with it. This is the founding UX/UI design role on the team: the person who stands up the design practice from the ground up. There is no design system, persona set, or research foundation in place today, so this designer creates them, and owns how people interact with the applications end to end, from research and personas through a reusable design system and production-ready designs.

Responsibilities:

• Design system: create the team’s design system from scratch (components, patterns, standards, and documentation), and grow and maintain it as the source of truth for the team’s UI.
• Research and personas: define the team’s user personas from the ground up; plan and run user research, and turn findings into design decisions the team can act on.
• Data-heavy UI design: produce high-fidelity prototypes and production-ready designs for analytics applications such as dashboards, data tables, charts, data visualization, and complex data-exploration workflows.
• Data visualization: make complex, technical data clear and usable, choosing the right representations for the data and the audience.
• UX and analysis: produce user flows, wireframes, and other UX deliverables; present and defend design decisions to the team and stakeholders.
• Standards and practice: establish the team’s design process, standards, and tooling, and set the bar for design quality across the applications.
• Collaboration: work closely with engineers, data scientists, analysts, and program staff to turn requirements into usable software.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 8 years of experience.
• Demonstrated experience where the primary body of work is designing data-heavy, analytics-focused products such as dashboards, data tables, charts, data visualization, and data-exploration workflows. A portfolio centered on marketing sites, content pages, or general web design does not meet this requirement.
• Demonstrated strength in data visualization: representing complex or technical data clearly.
• Proficiency in Figma.
• Demonstrated experience creating a design system from the ground up, not just working within an existing one.
• Demonstrated experience defining personas and running user research to drive design.
• Strong attention to detail and clear design reasoning, with the ability to own design decisions independently.
• Enough data literacy to understand data structures and sources and design interfaces that fit the data, without being a data analyst or data scientist.
• Comfort learning technical or scientific domain concepts and their constraints.

Arcarithm is an Equal Opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, genetic information, citizenship, ancestry, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Arcarithm participates in E-Verify.