Senior UX Designer

Overview:

LMI is seeking a skilled Senior UX designer to join our cutting-edge generative AI (GenAI) platform, LIGER™, created by our technology studio, LMI Forge. LIGER™ harnesses the power of the latest advances in machine learning and Large Language Models to provide secure, private, and trustworthy GenAI solutions for government.  

At LMI, we’re reimagining the path from insight to outcome at The New Speed of Possible™. Combining a legacy of over 60 years of federal expertise with our innovation ecosystem, we minimize time to value and accelerate mission success. We energize the brightest minds with emerging technologies to inspire creative solutioning and push the boundaries of capability. LMI advances the pace of progress, enabling our customers to thrive while adapting to evolving mission needs. 

LMI has been named a 2024 #TopWorkplace in the BuiltIn Workplaces! We are honored to be recognized as a company that values a people-centered culture, and we are grateful to our employees for making this possible!  

• Work with users and subject matter experts to clearly understand and define their challenges, problems, motivations, triggers, and aspirations.
• Solve problems and think critically to architect innovative and practical technology and functional solutions. 
• Communicate research and designs using wireframes, workflow generation, hi-fidelity designs, story boarding, visual presentations, and documentation to stakeholders, senior leadership, service lines and markets.  
• Collaborate with design team members, program managers and developers to define, prototype and iterate new and existing product features and build solution mock-ups and prototypes. 
• Document clear, organized solutions that are easily understandable in flow, function and status by stakeholders, engineers, and unfamiliar eyes. 
• Adapt designs as needed, expecting some ambiguity and change during projects. 
• Communicate status of work clearly and provide visibility to supervisor. 
• Integrate elements of system, process, and interface design to demonstrate frictionless user experiences. 
• Rapidly test designs with users using both passive and active methods. 
• Design, coordinate, and execute large scale and continuous qualitative and quantitative UX research activities, focusing on both conceptual designs and developed software. 
• Work with release management to coordinate user acceptance testing at critical release milestones.  
• Provide cross-cutting tools and oversight to ensure that development complies with industry standards and best practices and regulatory requirements (including meeting 508 accessibility requirements), reduces rework and cost when possible, and trends toward technology/product agnostic development.   

Minimum Qualifications: 

• 10+ years of experience in product design or related discipline.  

• Bachelor’s degree in design, user experience, technology, computer science, or related technical discipline 

• Demonstrates understanding and knowledge of good user interface design  

• Knowledge of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act and WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) standards 

• Develop, review, and edit digital content to ensure it meets Section 508 compliance and WCAG standards. 

• Strong communication skills: you can effectively articulate, evangelize and defend your ideas amongst your peers, stakeholders, and leadership. 

• Experience in qualitative and qualitative, participatory research, persona development, user journey mapping, and/or visualizing other user-experience flows. 

• Experience in user research including conducting moderated interviews, user testing, persona creation, information architecture and workflow creation.  

• A strong understanding of how to apply the elements of visual design such as typography, hierarchy, balance, motion, and interaction. 

• Portfolio demonstrating knowledge and understanding of design best practices and methodology while showcasing case studies. 

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously. 

• Experience with design tools, such as Figma and Adobe CC. 

• Ability to grasp technical concepts and apply them effectively to practical solutions. 

• Clearance:  Secret  

Preferred:  

• Experience with Army enterprise software and systems. 

• Experience with Maze, Dovetail, and other UX research tools.  

• Experience working in an agile software development framework.  

• Experience working with Acquisition or procurement professionals 

• Previous experience in the government contracting space.