User Experience Designer

Position Title User Experience Designer
Location Maryland - Columbia (RABA) (MD16)
Clearance Required Yes
Clearance Type TS/SCI with Lifestyle Poly
Daily Responsibilities Today’s world faces unprecedented challenges in using, managing, and understanding the vast amounts of information confronted on a daily basis. The problem is often described as “information overload,” but this is a significant understatement given the obstacles faced by individuals and organizations hoping to use this information to make critical decisions. A highly complex and rapidly expanding information landscape is evolving around us. As we move into the future, the current methods used to interact, navigate, communicate, and derive meaning from this glut of information will necessarily change. SRA is helping drive those changes, and is looking for creative individuals willing to take up the challenge of applying their imaginations and design skills to a new set of problems and a unique set of customers in the U.S. Intelligence Community

Every day, intelligence agencies are using interactive technology and visualization tools to help make tactical and strategic decisions that are often of national and global importance. Developing innovative user experiences for these tools requires creativity, imagination, and serious design expertise. Given these challenges, SRA is continuing to build a team of creative professionals capable of pushing the limits of design thinking, and looking to help dispel the misconceptions about design in the government arena.
Required: Years of experience (min) 3-5
Required: Degree Bachelors
Required: Subject Graphic Design, Communications Arts, Computer Science or related
Required: Skills Candidates should be process-oriented, conceptually driven, and possess the ability to think strategically and work collaboratively in a highly technical setting.

Position Requirements:
• Imagination!
• Ability to see the value of design and visual thinking in a wide variety of contexts
• Interest in solving usability challenges
• Minimum 2-3 years design experience
• Demonstrated experience designing User Experiences for web-based interactive products
• Strong knowledge of (X)HTML, CSS, and basic JavaScript
• Advanced skills with common web development tools including Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver
• Advanced skills with common design/image processing tools (i.e. Adobe Creative Suite)
• Excellent communication skills: ability to effectively articulate ideas and direction both verbally and in writing
• Candidates are asked to submit samples of their work.

Additional Helpful Qualifications (this is a broad sampling of helpful qualifications and none are required for employment consideration):
• BFA in Graphic Design or Communication Arts, BGD, or BS in HCI, Computer Science, or related field
• Information Architecture experience: Content/information strategy and organization, site maps, flow diagrams, navigational rules, creating UI wire-frames
• Full project life cycle experience, i.e. concept to deployment
• Thorough understanding of the design/production/technical constraints of developing web-browser based UIs
• Experience designing and prototyping User Interfaces (UIs) for rich-client UIs
• Proficiency with web oriented programming/scripting languages
• Adobe/Macromedia Flash expertise
• Experience in the arena of formal usability testing
• Understanding of Section 508 and other accessibility standards
• Experience working in the Defense/Intelligence Community

NOTE: We have multiple openings for this position and candidates will be considered for both our Columbia MD and Arlington VA locations!!!!

***MUST HAVE and MAINTAIN TS/SCI Lifestyle Poly clearance.***
Requisition Number 14379BR