Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our team of experts from across commercial industry and government brings the modern skills necessary to help agencies transform public services into digital services. Our work enables agencies to meet the needs of their users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.
We are looking for Senior UX Designer with experience in creating well-crafted user-centered products. You will work on a team committed to using research, design, and engineering to deliver well-rounded web-based applications and services.
We are a remote first organization and you may work anywhere within the US.
Requirements
All work must be conducted within the U.S.
As a contractor to the federal government, all hires may be required to complete additional background screenings at the time of hire or any time thereafter as requested
Some Federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment
Some Federal contracts require a degree in computer science or additional years of experience as a substitute
Our technical screening involves completing our homework assignments exclusively - we do not do any form of whiteboarding in our process. You can read more about our Design homework here.
What You'll Do
Design work
Discovery artifacts
Sketches and rough prototypes
Wireframes
UX flows
High fidelity prototypes
Design library contributions
Business development
Business development materials
Recruiting:
Homework and portfolio reviews
Participation in panel interviews
What You'll Bring
Minimum 8 years experience in design
Stakeholder engagement
getting information from stakeholders
Facilitation related to research of and for our users
Design skill mastery
Literacy, or a solid understanding of related technical skills, including things like APIs, databases, front end technologies
Collaboration with others
Owning the full life cycle of a problem
Knowing what steps to do when
Great attention to detail
Peer mentorship
Giving and receiving peer mentorship from others
Discovery
Defining goals for the discovery process
Ability to synthesize and interpret information
Design critiques
Ability to analyze design quality
Ability to present and facilitate a design critique
Systems level thinking
Analysis of a design system as a whole, and the development of new patterns
HTML / CSS prototypes
Prototypes that showcase visual design elements, built natively using front end HTML, CSS or SASS, and Javascript. Can include front end frameworks such as USDS Web Design Standards, Bootstrap or Foundation.
Mentorship
Provides direct and impactful feedback in program team critiques and engages peers in their work. Seeks out feedback from other designers to grow their own skills.
Sketches, rough prototypes
Wireframes
Low-fidelity wireframes using collaborative tools
UX Flows
Process maps, journey maps
High fidelity prototypes
Prototypes that showcase visual design elements, built in a tool such as Sketch. Can also include other visual artifacts including style tiles, mood boards etc.
Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, age, pregnancy, disability, work-related injury, covered veteran status, political ideology, marital status, or any other factor that the law protects from employment discrimination.