Job Description
Active Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance With Polygraph Is Required. Visionist has an exciting new, fully FUNDED opportunity for a UX Designer on our PRIME contract. You will be joining an exciting mission centered around providing visualization and presentation services for the prototyping, development, and production of analytic tools. The team focuses on providing user experience, systems engineering, and graphic design support to an entire software development portfolio. You will have the chance to participate in Neilson Norman Group Trainings, as well as 508 training, to develop and advance your skills. You will have the opportunity to telework up to 2 days per week. If this work and these professional development opportunities sound exciting, then this is the place for you!
For over 14 years, Visionist has been solving the Intelligence Community's toughest software and analysis challenges. As a 100% employee-owned company, we prioritize our people—your job security is assured. We embed small engineering teams with analysts to rapidly identify and solve mission capability gaps playing a critical role in defending our nation’s cyber infrastructure & providing expertise in malware analysis, attribution, mapping adversarial infrastructure, pen testing, and operational planning. Our open-door leadership team fosters a supportive culture, where internal growth and promotion opportunities are the norm. Don’t just take our word for it—check out our 4.8-star review on Glassdoor. Join a company that feels like a family with regular happy hours, baseball games, activity clubs and more. Check us out at
Your contributions are… - Collaborate with Designers and Developers to create UX artifacts and provide UX expertise
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research studies such as surveys, interviews, and usability tests with multiple UX practitioners to generate strategic insights
- Develop wireframes to help users evaluate product structure before development
- Evaluate and produce information architectures to determine appropriate product structure and layout
- Perform heuristic evaluations using standard UX principles to review user interfaces
- Develop workshop scripts and facilitate UX methods to extract user feedback and synthesize UX artifacts
Requirements For Your New Career…- Bachelor's degree in cognitive and/or experimental psychology, human factors engineering, or an engineering related field (e.g., systems engineering, software engineering, business process engineering)
- 10 years of experience in UX design
- Experience conducting user research through surveys, focus groups, and usability testing to gather and analyze user feedback
- Ability to translate user requirements (personas, workflows, task flows, and user scenarios) into wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, and detailed interface design specifications
- Experience collaborating closely with application developers, product designers, and process engineers to deliver intuitive, user-centered solutions
- Proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe XD, PenPot, or similar platforms
Benefits of becoming a Visionist: Your New Career
- We are a 100% employee-owned company, so our employees see the benefit of their contributions and have a stake in our overall success!
- Competitive 15% retirement contribution! (5% 401K match & 10% ESOP)
- 4 weeks paid time off that is never “use or lose”, 12 paid holidays, comp time, overtime, AND flexible work hours
- 80 hours of paid parental leave with an additional $8,000 supplemental payment upon returning from maternity
- Medical, dental, & vision benefits for both individuals and families (those who waive medical benefits will receive an additional $4,160/year)
- Annual lifestyle bonus of $600 – use it towards gyms/fitness, new tech, or your HSA!
- Annual merit increases & performance-based bonuses
- Term life insurance, short-term disability, & long-term disability
Salary range: $140,000 - $185,000
Disclaimer: Salary for this position, along with additional compensation options, will be determined on an individual basis following the interview process, considering various factors such as years of experience, skills, education/certifications, contract specifications, market conditions, etc.
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Next steps: Apply online and one of our recruiters will reach out to you. We have a streamlined process of phone screen with a recruiter, interview with a Visionist team at our HQ in Columbia, MD, and that is all!
Interested in learning more about Visionist and the work we do? Check out our website!
U.S citizenship required (green card holders and permanent residents are not eligible). Applicants selected will be required to obtain / maintain a government security clearance. Visionist, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities employer.
Job Tags
Permanent employment, Contract work, Temporary work, Remote work, Flexible hours, 2 days per week