User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX) Designer (Work from home - Remote Opportunity) - Ability to obtain DoD Secret Clearance

Lockwood Hills Federal is seeking a User Interface/User Experience (UIUX) Designer to help develop applications and user experience interfaces for cloud-based enterprise training systems for the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative. ADL bridges US Government agencies to encourage collaboration, facilitate interoperability, and promote best practices for using distributed learning to provide the highest-quality education, training, informal learning. This position will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining cloud-based solutions that enhance learning experiences. The position requires extensive collaboration with cross-functional teams to create and manage scalable, secure, and efficient applications for DoD training partners and educational institutions. This position requires superb design, management skills, experience with quality control, strong time-management and administration skills, strong detail- oriented organizational abilities, and some facility with coding. To join our team of outstanding professionals, apply today! **Responsibilities** + Plans, executes, and leads the full range of UIUX discovery, design, evaluation, and iterative development tasks + Defines or refines end user roles and personas + Captures or extracts end user requirements in concisely written user stories - leveraging project team members, existing documentation, customers, and end users + Optimizes the re-use of user stories (and associated artifacts) across customer product implementations + Articulates end user narratives and flows + Generates prototype UIUX designs consistent with best practices in UIUX design and customer style guides; and/or evaluate third party designs against style guides + Illustrates design concepts using storyboards, wireframes, process flows, site maps + Demonstrates a strong design aesthetic that brings together brand expressions and systems thinking + Maintains a system mindset taking the complex and making it simple + Organizes Figma documents and set up Figma Libraries that are aligned with style guide(s) + Executes UIUX review of prototype designs or applications and document detailed formative feedback for project team managers and developers + Evaluates designs or applications against UIUX best practices + Designs, leads, and conducts UX Heuristic Reviews or Audits to identify user flow deficiencies or improvement areas appropriate to a given application (considering goals of the evaluation, application maturity, time constraints, etc.) + Works with Human Centered Design team, project team, and end users to iteratively prototype and advance user interfaces, user workflows and other user experiences through a system or application + Creates detailed and well-organized UIUX documentation such as Requirements – personas and user stories + Designs documents - user flows/user journeys/experience maps/affinity maps/interaction models and UI specifications, low - high-fidelity wireframes/mocks/prototypes, accessibility; UIUX best practice analysis reports, usability testing assessments + Develops Standard Operating Procedures or business rules defining UIUX tasking and coordination within complex, interdisciplinary project teams + Typically resolves complex problems or problems where precedent may not exist + Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products/services or processes + Performs other duties not outlined above, at the discretion of the ADL Initiative leadership **Qualifications** + Must be US Citizen able to obtain + Maintain DoD Secret clearance + Experience creating, managing, and presenting design work in Figma to include wireframing, prototype development, end-user testing, and demonstrations. + Experience and Education: + 5yr relevant experience OR + 3 yrs exp + Bachelor’s degree in UIUX or related area OR + 2 yrs exp + advanced degree in UIUX or related area + Works independently + Contributes to process improvements + Works with minimal guidance + Is comfortable working directly with the client + Is flexible and comfortable working in an agile environment **Pay Range** 125,000-135,000 **Benefits** Regular - The company offers a comprehensive benefits program, including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k) and a range of other voluntary benefits. Paid Time Off (PTO) is offered to regular full-time and part-time employees. **Company Description** **Work Where it Matters** Lockwood Hills, an Akima company, is not just another federal contractor. As an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC), our mission and purpose extend beyond our exciting federal projects as we support our shareholder communities in Alaska. At Lockwood Hills, the work you do every day makes a difference in the lives of our 15,000 Iñupiat shareholders, a group of Alaska natives from one of the most remote and harshest environments in the United States. **For our shareholders** , Lockwood Hills provides support and employment opportunities and contributes to the survival of a culture that has thrived above the Arctic Circle for more than 10,000 years. **For our government customers** , Lockwood Hills delivers mission critical support services for federal, civilian, and military operations around the world. **As a Lockwood Hills employee** , you will be surrounded by a challenging, yet supportive work environment that is committed to innovation and diversity, two of our most important values. You will also have access to our comprehensive benefits and competitive pay in addition to growth opportunities and excellent retirement options. We are an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. All applicants will receive consideration for employment, without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, gender or gender-identity, age, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, pregnancy or parental status, or any other basis prohibited by law. If you are an individual with a disability, or have known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us at job-assist@akima.com or 571-353-7053 (information about job applications status is not available at this contact information).