UX/UI Designer

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📋 Description

• Create and maintain the team's design system, including components, patterns, standards, and documentation
• Establish design governance and best practices for application development
• Define user personas and user needs
• Plan, facilitate, and synthesize user research
• Translate research findings into actionable design recommendations and product improvements
• Create high-fidelity mockups, prototypes, and production-ready designs for dashboards, data tables, data visualizations, reporting interfaces, analytics platforms, and data-exploration workflows
• Design intuitive workflows that help users discover, analyze, and act on information
• Create meaningful visual representations of complex technical information
• Select visualization approaches supporting user goals and decision-making
• Improve clarity, usability, and accessibility across data-centric applications
• Develop user flows, journey maps, wireframes, interaction models, and other UX deliverables
• Present and defend design recommendations to stakeholders and technical teams
• Continuously improve usability through iterative design and feedback
• Collaborate with software engineers, data scientists, analysts, researchers, and program leadership
• Translate business and technical requirements into user-centered solutions
• Bridge technical complexity and user needs

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), User Experience Design, or a related discipline; equivalent professional experience will also be considered
• Eight years of related experience
• Demonstrated experience designing analytics-focused, data-intensive applications, including dashboards, data tables, data visualization, reporting systems, analytics platforms, and data-exploration workflows
• Strong portfolio showcasing complex data-driven product design work
• Proven expertise in data visualization and communicating technical information clearly through design
• Advanced proficiency with Figma
• Experience creating a design system from the ground up, including standards, documentation, and reusable components
• Experience defining user personas and conducting user research that directly influences product design
• Strong visual design, interaction design, and information architecture skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to make and justify design decisions independently
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• US citizenship
• Preferred: strong data literacy; experience in scientific, engineering, technical, or government environments; ability to learn complex technical domains; familiarity with accessibility standards; experience in Agile software development teams

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work environment
• Work on impactful applications supporting [REDACTED]'s aeronautics mission
• Opportunity to become the founding UX/UI design leader
• Influence products from concept through implementation
• Collaboration with engineers, scientists, analysts, and innovators
• Opportunity to establish and mature a design practice with lasting organizational impact

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