Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a highly experienced UI/UX Designer to join a team that defines, plans, and leads the User Experience Architecture practice for their federal client.

You’ll provide UX Architecture strategy, Design Consultation, and UI Engineering solutions to build useful and usable digital products, and helping teams improve their design methods. The designer will foster strong relationships with Development teams, earn trust with Product Owners, and be an advocate for the User in a non-traditional User Centered Design process

• Advance the UX practice. Foster best practices through advocacy and coaching, clearly communicating method and their value to all domains.
• Collaborate and engage with colleagues, partners, and organizational teams on Design System usage and its mission, resources, and processes.
• Contribute to the vision, product management, project management, design, development, and authorship of a Design System standardizing Visual Style, UI Components, UI Patterns, and supporting documentation.
• Consult on user-centric design knowledge, techniques, tools, methods, and expert advice.
• Creative and Technical direction of the Design System – its visual style, front-end assets, and technical build tooling.
• Research, Prototype, Build UI features of Design System.
• Review and advise on the work of designers and developers to ensure a cohesive experience across products.
• Assist in introducing post-delivery UX field testing to understand how solutions are used and can be improved.

Qualifications

• BS and 5+ years experience
• Ability to obtain and maintain and USDA public trust requiring US Citizenship
• A history of leading and delivering the processes needed to affect change.
• Strong empathetic skills, understanding how and why an interface succeeds or fails.
• Strong communication and presentational skills – visual, verbal, and written.
• Proven background in building UI solutions with HTML/CSS/JavaScript.
• Familiarity with Git, Github and Git Actions
• Familiarity with emerging frameworks and tooling: e.g. Angular, React, Vue, Webpack, Gulp, Grunt, etc.
• Experience with non-code-based prototyping and design tools, e.g. Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD.
• Experience with the Adobe suite of graphic design tools, e.g. Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, etc.
• Demonstrable excellence in Design Research — generative and evaluative.

Target salary range: $80,001 – $120,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site

Overview

SAIC® is a premier Fortune 500® technology integrator focused on advancing the power of technology and innovation to serve and protect our world. Our robust portfolio of offerings across the defense, space, civilian and intelligence markets includes secure high-end solutions in mission IT, enterprise IT, engineering services and professional services. We integrate emerging technology, rapidly and securely, into mission critical operations that modernize and enable critical national imperatives.

We are approximately 24,000 strong; driven by mission, united by purpose, and inspired by opportunities. SAIC is an Equal Opportunity Employer, fostering a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, which is core to our values and important to attract and retain exceptional talent. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $7.4 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For ongoing news, please visit our newsroom.