Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Ad Hoc LLC is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. As a Senior UX Designer / Researcher, you will lead design initiatives, influence UX processes, and collaborate with stakeholders to enhance user experiences for Veterans and their families.
Responsibilities
- Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management
- May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads
- Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
- Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions
- Plans, conducts, analyzes, and shares knowledge from research based on the team’s questions and goals
- Prioritizes research projects based on team needs and goals, balancing research team capacity
- Influences and communicates research strategy for the program
- Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize UX activities
- Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy
- Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
- Demonstrates the ability to coach designers/researchers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways
- Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations
- May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge or experience with other emerging accessibility standards
- Oversees research scope and the development of recommendations; leads efforts to effectively communicates results to internal and external stakeholders
- Contributes to planning, conducting and synthesizing research
- Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements
- Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions
- Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks
- May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines
Skills
- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience
- Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members
- Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools
- Experience with research principles and relevant technologies, understands roles with which they interact and how their work impacts business goals
- Self-starter, works independently
- Firm grasp of Agile best practices
- Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management
- May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads
- Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
- Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions
- Plans, conducts, analyzes, and shares knowledge from research based on the team's questions and goals
- Prioritizes research projects based on team needs and goals, balancing research team capacity
- Influences and communicates research strategy for the program
- Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize UX activities
- Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy
- Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
- Demonstrates the ability to coach designers/researchers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways
- Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations
- May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge or experience with other emerging accessibility standards
- Oversees research scope and the development of recommendations; leads efforts to effectively communicates results to internal and external stakeholders
- Contributes to planning, conducting and synthesizing research
- Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements
- Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions
- Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks
- May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines
- Familiarity with Google Analytics, Domo or Datadog
- Experience with QA, in particular checking products during the launch process to ensure the products we've built meet the user expectations and designs originally provided
Benefits
- Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible PTO
- 401K with employer match
- Paid parental leave after one year of service
- Employee Assistance Program
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