Steampunk, Inc.

UI/UX Designer

Design. Disrupt. Repeat.

Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is looking for an experienced UI/UX Designer with an appetite for taking on new challenges.

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate discovery and innovation workshops for a range of government audiences, from senior leaders to front-line implementers, utilizing human-centered methods, tools, and best practices
  • Collaborate with clients and stakeholders to co-design workshop agendas and exercises that help achieve strategic and tactical objectives
  • Synthesize research, insights, and data to help drive solutions for organizational challenges
  • Craft compelling stories and visual models to communicate insights and discoveries that will shape service innovations
  • Understand the relevance of and how to articulate journey maps, service blueprints, personas, ecosystem and experience maps
  • Understand how user research should be integrated into developing technology
  • Ensure all deliverables across a variety of projects are produced at the highest quality
  • Works with technical team members on the implementation of UX research techniques and usability testing activities.


Qualifications

  • 6+ years of experience in human centered design, service design, and/or customer experience design
  • 6+ years of experience delivering interface design solutions for various clients, including highly detailed annotated wire-frames and user flows within complex web or mobile applications
  • Experience developing rapid prototypes and producing wire-frames for user interfaces
  • Thorough knowledge and demonstrated experience applying design thinking methods and tools to solve end to end challenges
  • Experience in workshop facilitation and co-creation, including with groups of senior organizational leaders
  • Experience working in multi-disciplinary groups including UX and UI designers, technologists, and engineers
  • A natural curiosity for solving problems coupled with strong analytical skills
  • A collaborative nature with excellent written communication and presentation skills
  • Experience working in a project-based environment
  • Strong client communication skills
  • Degree or equivalent experience in HCD, HCI, service design, and/or experience design
  • Ability to obtain a U.S. government public trust


Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company, we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers – and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story, visit http//www.steampunk.com.

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.
  • Seniority level

    Mid-Senior level
  • Employment type

    Full-time
  • Job function

    Engineering and Information Technology
  • Industries

    IT Services and IT Consulting

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