UX Designer

As a user experience (UX) designer for a customer-facing web and mobile application developed in a low-code environment, your primary focus is creating a captivating and human-centered design beyond the user interface. While designing visually appealing interfaces is important, your role carries even greater significance in ensuring that the overall user experience is seamless, intuitive, strategic, and meets our customers' expectations. By focusing on user experience over interface design, you will play a vital role in crafting an application that engages our users and fosters long-term adoption. As such, you will be able to articulate the reasoning behind design choices. This is an excellent growth opportunity.

This position is remote and the successful candidate must reside in the Eastern or Central time zones, ideally within a 2-3 hour drive from the Greater Washington, D.C. Metropolitan area.

This position requires the ability pass a Public Trust clearance.

Applicants must include a link to their portfolio to apply.

Responsibilities:

• Wireframing and Prototyping: Work alone and with a senior UX designer to create wireframes, interactive prototypes, and mockups to visualize and communicate design ideas. Iterate on these designs based on feedback and user testing.
• UX Design: Design the user experience flow in collaboration with our experienced team. Optimize navigation, information architecture, and interactions to enhance usability and accessibility.
• UI Design: Develop visually appealing and intuitive user interfaces that balance the constraints of the Appian low-code environment and user experience. Working solo or with other UX designer, create designs for a web and mobile application on Windows, Android, and Apple iOS, considering factors such as layout, typography, color schemes, and visual hierarchy.
• Collaboration: Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including the customer product owner, internal Senior UI/UX designers , end-user SMEs, business analysts, QA Testers, developers, and other partner stakeholders to understand requirements, align design goals, and ensure the successful implementation of UI/UX solution as a product ready for resell.
• Usability Testing: Conduct usability testing sessions along with other team members to gather feedback on the application's usability and identify areas for improvement. Analyze user feedback and iterate on designs to enhance the overall user experience.
• Design Documentation: Create and maintain design documentation, including style guides, design patterns, and UI specifications, to ensure consistency across different platforms and devices.
• Industry Trends: Stay updated on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UI/UX design, specifically related to potential competitors ahead of the product release to the market. Apply this knowledge to drive innovation and improve the application's design and user experience.

Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in UI/UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), or a related field is preferred and a minimum of 3 years of experience required. Relevant certifications or equivalent work experience will also be considered.

• A strong portfolio showcasing your UI/UX design work, including wireframes, prototypes, and final designs.
• Proven experience as a UI/UX designer, preferably with a focus on customer-facing web and mobile applications.
• Proficiency in design and prototyping tools such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, or similar.
• Strong understanding of user-centered design principles, usability, and interaction design.
• Knowledge of front-end development technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and their impact on UI/UX design.
• Experience with online collaboration tools, e.g., FigJam, Google Docs, Mira.
• Experience with development tools and services that can streamline project management, version control, and deployment processes ticketing, e.g., Jira, Confluence, Asana, Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with responsive design and mobile-first approaches.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively work with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with creating graphics and understanding of graphic design principles for use in creating design artifacts like icons, diagrams, etc.
• Hands-on, real-world experience in a professional environment preferred.
• Federal government experience preferred.

ABOUT US

Precise Software Solutions, Inc., an SBA 8(a) program participant, is an innovative small business with a proven record of success delivering quality services and solutions to government organizations. A CMMI Level 3 company, Precise serves as a trusted advisor to senior technology executives and helps government agencies enhance and expand their information technology capabilities. Precise helps their customers capitalize on the efficiencies offered by technological advancements and ensures the integrity of their IT systems and programs so they can perform their public mission more effectively. The company is known for delivering agile and innovative solutions and specializes in strategic consulting, system modernization and integration, digital transformation and experience, infrastructure and cloud implementation, and data management and analytics.

BENEFITS AND PERKS: 

• Comprehensive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental and Vision) including High Deductible Health plan where company pays 100% of the deductible for your family.
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) & Health Savings Account (HSA) 
• Retirement Plan with 4% match and discretionary match at year end
• Paid Time Off (PTO): 15 days of PTO accrued per year; 7 holidays+ 3 Floating holidays; 2 Innovation days (paid training days)
• Short Term and Long-Term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid Jury Duty leave 
• Life and AD&D Insurance 
• Critical Illness Insurance
• Training and Development 
• Wellness Incentives & Discount programs
• Employee Referral Program 
• Annual Charity Donation Match 
• Awards and Recognition

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

Precise is an equal opportunity employer. The company shall not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity (except where gender is a bona fide occupational qualification), national origin, age, disability, military/veteran status, marital status, genetic information or any other factor protected by law. We are committed to equal employment opportunity in all decisions related to employment, promotion, wages, benefits and all other privileges, terms and conditions of employment. The company is dedicated to seeking all qualified applicants.