UX/UI Designer

Overview

LMI is seeking UI/UX designer to join an agile team developing software to support the USDA DSC Salesforce STRATUS Program. You will be responsible for developing intuitive and user-friendly designs, wireframes, and technical interfaces to bring technical solutions to life. You will drive adoptability and usability of the systems we develop and will employ design techniques that always put the user's perspective first in the solution. As a member of the LMI team providing sub-contract support to ITCON, you will be LMI's team lead working with several other LMI team members. 

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to powering a future-ready, high-performing government, drawing from expertise in digital and analytic solutions, logistics, and management advisory services. We deliver integrated capabilities that incorporate emerging technologies and are tailored to customers’ unique mission needs, backed by objective research and data analysis. Founded in 1961 to help the Department of Defense resolve complex logistics management challenges, LMI continues to enable growth and transformation, enhance operational readiness and resiliency, and ensure mission success for federal civilian and defense agencies. 

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! 

Responsibilities

• 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. 
• Work closely with UX researchers, product managers, product owners, other designers, full-stack engineers, and developers to design and build solution mock-ups and prototypes. 
• Create a wide range of design artifacts, such as wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs. 
• Demonstrate product designs and solution prototypes to senior leadership, service lines, and markets. 
• Integrate elements of system, process, and interface design to demonstrate frictionless user experiences. 
• Rapidly test designs with users in collaboration with other designers. 
• Incorporate feedback from research and user testing to inform design decisions. 
• Transition designs to engineering and development teams to build solutions and work alongside these teams to make sure solutions are on track with the original design. 
• Monitor the success of user experiences and iterate to adjust and evolve product designs. 
• Collaborate with service lines, markets, and corporate enterprise services to target products that strategically align to capabilities, customer opportunities, and internal corporate needs. 
• Generate buy-in for product vision with both senior leadership and customer stakeholders. 
• Maintain familiarity with current trends in technology, innovation, and salient challenges in the federal government. 
• Align designs with limitations of SharePoint environment. 

Percentage of Travel Required: Less than 10% 

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: 

• 5 – years of experience in product design or related discipline. 
• Experience developing to 508 compliances. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. 
• Entrepreneurial spirit, independent and self-motivated, and results oriented. 
• Technically adept and business-focused to interface across technical disciplines and with senior leaders. 
• Experience with design tools, such as Figma and InVision. 
• Ability to grasp technical concepts and apply them effectively to practical solutions. 
• Ability to take on multiple perspectives ranging from business end users to solution architects, engineers, and developers. 
• Experience with software development or web design, code development, and cloud infrastructure. 
• Experience working on Agile Software Development. 
• Experience designing in a SharePoint environment.  

Education:  

• Bachelor’s degree in design, user experience, technology, computer science, or related technical discipline and 5 years of product design or related experience. 

Additional Preferred Qualifications: 

• SAFe Agile certification. 

• Human Centered Design certification. 
• Human Factors Engineering experience. 

Target salary range: $140,000 - 160,000.

Disclaimer: The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. Individual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances.