Senior UX Designer at Bixal

Title: Senior UX Designer

• Location: United States
• REMOTE /
• UX AND DESIGN /
• FULL TIME
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Who we are:

Bixal is a mission-driven, woman-owned small business determined to improve people’s lives through human-centered strategies and transformative technologies, with a firm belief that everyone has the right to an effective government.

We deliver on this belief by partnering with leading Federal agencies to design, develop, and deliver powerful customer experiences through holistic digitalproduct solutionsand strategic communications initiatives––bringinga high standard and unique creative energy to our clients––and our wonderfully diverse culture is what makes it all possible.

Bixal unites different people with different perspectives from all over the world! We provide our teamwith an open and empowered environment where collaboration thrivesand solutions flourish.

Location:

This role can be remote. Some travel to the client and Bixal’s HQ in Fairfax, VA may be necessary in the future.

What will you do?

The Senior UX Designer role will support the ongoing design and development of web and other digital channel experiences for federal government clients. This may include supporting the ongoing application and implementation of the U.S. Web Design System on projects.

You will report to our Director of Experience Design who reports to our VP of UX and Design. Using your core design skills, you will create and refine digital products to enable useful, usable, and delightful experiences for those who use them.

Responsibilities

• General expectations: Be trusted to make good decisions. Recognize when to ask for further guidance and support. Contribute to the development of design concepts. Interpret evidence-based research and incorporate this into your work.
• Carry out a wide variety of research, design, and prototyping tasks, including: Understand product goals and user needs. Conduct concept and usability testing and gather feedback. Create personas based on user research and collected data. Define an interaction model and evaluate its success. Develop wireframes and prototypes around customer needs. Prepare and present rough drafts to internal teams and key stakeholders. Identify and troubleshoot usability issues. Create mockups and prototypes. Share progress and interact with team using a version control system.
• Collaborate in an agile environment with multi-disciplinary teams including strategy, research, content, visual, and development.
• Create relationships with key stakeholders on the client side to maintain collaboration
• Facilitate ideation through sketching and collaborative activities, such as design sprints and other participatory design activities.
• Create storyboards and step-by-step flows of varying resolution to communicate a person’s experience through a system.
• Conduct evaluative user research (for example, user testing of prototypes or existing products, heuristic analyses, and interviews).
• Work integrally with developers to shepherd designs through the development process.
• Promote the importance of human-centered design practice throughout the organization and with Bixal’s clients.
• Implement, maintain, and expand upon project plans with emphasis on high degree of quality in conjunction product managers and development managers.
• Mentor and develop team members in alignment with Bixal’s brand and overall direction.
• Keep abreast of industry trends and tools and communicate findings out to the team and Bixal.
• Help build a culture of continuous improvement across all levels of design — strategic, structural, and surface — where designers (including yourself) feel challenged with meaningful work and see a clear path for growth.
• Perform other duties as required.

What will you need?

• 4-7 years of experience in UX, product design, or commensurate work experience.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• Must have a portfolio of experience that demonstrates previous work.
• Must be a US Citizen and able to obtain Public Trust clearance.
• Experience with Design Systems a plus.

Skills

• Agile mindset. You have experience of working in agile, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them. You can advise colleagues on how and why agile methods are used and be able to provide a clear, open and transparent framework in which teams can deliver. You can adapt and reflect and be resilient. You have the ability to see outside of the process.
• Communication. You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them clearly for both audiences. You know how to manage stakeholder expectations. You can be flexible, and you are capable of proactive and reactive communication. You know how to facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.
• Team collaboration. You know how to work collaboratively within a group, actively networking with others and varying feedback for the appropriate time to ensure the discussion sticks. You can use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. You can pull out issues through agile health-checks with the team to provoke the right responses.
• Evidence- and context-based design. You can absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to produce simple designs.
• Working within constraints. You can identify constraints and can communicate about these and work within them. You know how to challenge the validity of constraints. You can ensure standards are being met.
• Leadership and guidance. You contribute to best-practice guidelines. You understand the sustainability and consequences of your decisions and can make decisions characterized by managed levels of risk and complexity. You can resolve technical disputes between wider peers and indirect stakeholders, considering all views and opinions.
• Prototyping. You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones.
• Strategic thinking. You can work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goals. You can contribute to the development of strategy and policies.
• Human-centered. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritize and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used.
• Inclusive design mindset. You know how to regularly apply the practices of accessible and inclusive design to your work throughout the whole process. You can work with team members and specialists to ensure the work is adhering to inclusive principles while balancing the design intent and achieving a high-quality experience

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive base salary
• Flex hours
• Work from home flexibility
• 401K with matching incentive
• Medical/Dental/Vision benefits
• Company provided short-term disability
• Company provided life insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Flexible PTO
• Paid Holidays
• LegalShield
• Professional development opportunities