Leidos is looking for a Principal User Experience Designer to lead a cross-functional team of human factors professionals, artists, and software developers at the intersection of Human Factors Engineering and Marketing Strategy, across a suite of web-based and 3D/XR applications. The successful candidate will be able to design fluid user experiences on a variety of platforms, incorporate highly engaging branding, making a suite of products one easily comprehendible whole, clearly articulate their vision to artists and developers, and bring the whole thing to fruition using Agile project methodologies.
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, clearly articulate, and execute on a vision for a sublime user experience across a suite of products.
- Work as part of a team to develop creative and engaging interactive experiences in support of software engineering projects.
- Design and develop engaging visuals, graphics, XR content, and animations.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with other team members to accomplish tasks and complete projects.
- Work with other software engineering leads to coordinate resources, prioritize activities, and ensure quality and timely products.
- Utilize project tracking tools and weekly meetings to track, communicate, and manage all tasks and projects to ensure all assigned tasks are completed or before the established due date.
- Communicate and promote effective use of new and current technologies to the customer.
- Analyze project options and provide recommendations to address physical and security constraints.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in human factors, software design, software engineering, graphic design, visual design, fine arts, or related field and 12+ years of related job experience.
- Experience should include a minimum of five (5) years of recent interactive multimedia development/design/programming experience.
- Additional experience using a diverse range of multimedia, electronic authoring and development tools, software, and platforms for the delivery of products such as Unity, Unreal Engine, Blender, Illustrator, Photoshop and/or wireframing software.
- Experience designing in and integrating elements from the Adobe Creative Suite or other compositing packages.
- Strong visual design including use of lighting, composition, and color.
- Experience designing products and applications, including 2D animations, ideally for interactive software.
- Experience developing mockups, user flows, storyboards, and prototypes to effectively communicate web design.
- Experience generating cohesive, desirable UI/UX design, based on holistic consideration of the users including adherence to accessible design principles.
- Experience utilizing project tracking mechanisms to communicate, coordinate, prioritize, and complete projects on schedule.
- Ability to work across multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to hand off work and designs to an integration team, across various air-gapped customer environments.
- Candidate must be a US Citizen to bill to this contract.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing engaging software product brands and/or marketing campaigns.
- Experience using content management systems.
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