User Experience (UX) Designer

Overview

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is searching for a User Experience (UX) Designer to support our work for the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), an institute of the National Institutes of Health. This is a full-time position located at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD and/or remote.

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at National Institutes of Health (NIH).  NCBI, one of the 400 top most-visited sites in the world, is the premier biomedical center, hosting over 4 million daily users in search of clinical, genetic and other information – at NCBI your work contributes to curing cancer faster!  NCBI’s wide range of applications (such as PubMed and ClincialTrials.org), platforms and environments (big data [petabytes], machine learning, multiple clouds) serve more users and more data than any other US Government Agency.

Responsibilities include:

• UX designers will work with the SVAT and other CGR teams to review requirements and users’ feedback and design required/necessary fixes, improvements or enhancements, as well as new features and functionality addressing these requirements. Activities may include, but are not limited to, marketing strategy development and execution, user research, user experience design, content development and other related services.

  Specific tasks include:

  participation in

  • story mapping exercises
  • workflow and wireframe designs planning
  • interface and graphics styling, revisions, or improvements planning

  and, delivering

  • story maps
  • workflow designs
  • user research for integration of community content
  • strategic plan for customer engagement and outreach
  • all related files