Cleared User Experience Designer

Noblis is seeking to hire a UX Designer with an ACTIVE Top Secret with SCI and Polygraph in Chantilly, VA

Noblis is looking for a User Experience Designer to facilitate effective design collaboration between the design and engineering teams. You will find intuitive solutions to complex problems and bridge the gap between the designers and Software Engineers. As a UX Designer you will collaborate and innovate with other colleagues, to address immediate mission challenges within the Intelligence Community (IC).

Responsibilities:

• Work with clients and our team of technical SMEs to develop and design a vision for a product.
• Develop well-crafted research screeners and discussion guides. 
• Write usability research screeners and discussion guides.
• recruit targeted end-users for specific research studies.
• Conduct stakeholder and client interviews.
• Help develop and implement quantitative surveys.
• Translate user insightes into actionable recommendations for client product teams.
• Craft personas and guideposts to communicate insights across the client design and development teams.
• Present design research findings to the larger group in a clear and organized fasion.
• Work closely with product teams to identify research objectives.
• Provide a high-quality user experience.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree and 5-8 years professional hands-on experience
• Master's Degree and 3-5 years of professional hands-on experience
• Solid understanding of the design thinking process, as well as a passion and know-how for influencing design strategy.
• At least 5 years of experience conduding user research in a profesional setting and/or portfolio of research case studies exhibiting artifacts of tasks in the field of user experience.
• Active TS/SCI with Polygraph required.

• Working knowledge of Agile software development frameworks
• Certificate or significant education background in human centered design, UI/UX, Systems design, human computer interaction or similar field of study.
• Experience with differnt tools used to develop wireframes and user personas.
• Experience working with USG clients, operational components, and stakeholders

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Noblis and our wholly owned subsidiaries, Noblis ESI, and Noblis MSD tackle the nation's toughest problems and apply advanced solutions to our clients' most critical missions. We bring the best of scientific thought, management, and engineering expertise together in an environment of independence and objectivity to deliver enduring impact on federal missions. Noblis works with a wide range of government clients in the defense, intelligence and federal civil sectors. Learn more at Noblis -About Us

Why work at a Noblis company?

Our employees find greater meaning in their work and balance the other things in life that matter to them. Our people are our greatest asset. They are exceptionally skilled, knowledgeable, team-oriented, and mission-driven individuals who want to do work that matters and benefits the public. Noblis has won numerous workplace awards. Noblis maintains a drug-free workplace.

At Noblis we recognize and reward your contributions, provide you with growth opportunities, and support your total well-being. Our offerings include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, as well as paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, and work-life programs. Our award programs acknowledge employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our service standards. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in our benefit programs. Other offerings may be provided for employees not within this category. We encourage you to learn more about our total benefits by visiting the Benefits page on our Careers site.

Compensation at Noblis is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the combination of education, certifications, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, internal and external equity, location, clearance level, as well as contract-specific affordability, organizational requirements and applicable employment laws. The projected compensation range for this position is based on full time status. For part time or on-call staff, compensation is proportionately adjusted based on hours worked. While monetary compensation is important, it's just one component of Noblis’ total compensation package.

Noblis is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race (as well as because of or on the basis of traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, hair type, and protective hairstyles such as braids, locks, and twists), color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.

Noblis is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Noblis will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact employee-relations@noblis.org.