Job Title: Senior Designer
Location: Remote (United States, Minnesota, Minneapolis)
Job Type: Evergreen Position
Description:
Ad Hoc is a digital services company that helps the federal government better serve people. Our teams use modern, agile methods to meet the needs of our users while closing the gap between consumer expectations and government.
Work on things that matter:
Our teams connect Veterans with services designed for their needs, help millions of people access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we're also changing how the government thinks about and uses technology.
Built for a remote life:
Ad Hoc is remote-first and remote-always. We've designed our culture, communications, and tools to support a nationwide team. Being remote allows Ad Hoc to bring the best people onto our teams and give them the freedom to create a work environment that fits their lives.
Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture:
Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren't heroes. We leave our egos at the door to learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to bring the best of consumer technology to the problems of government.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Serve as an experienced individual contributor within a team, developing leadership, guidance, and mentoring skills.
- Support the goal of meeting scope, schedule, and delivery requirements.
- Impact the long-term goals of the program and contribute to the program's design strategy.
- Utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices.
- Lead cross-functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads.
- Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery.
- Lead the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions.
- Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize design activities.
- Responsible for working with users to support the development of effective designs.
- Deliver design work including discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes.
- Demonstrate the ability to coach designers and provide actionable feedback.
- Manage the development of competitive analysis and report results to stakeholders.
- Contribute to the design libraries and provide visual design and brand artifacts.
- Facilitate discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals.
- Lead human-centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations.
- May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance.
- Identify risks and communicate to leadership; provide recommendations to mitigate identified risks.
- Participate in grading candidate homeworks and panel interviews.
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree and 7+ years of experience or MA degree and 5+ years of experience.
- Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members.
- Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools.
- Front end skills.
- Accessibility experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Bilingual English/Spanish.
- Experience with United States Web Design System.
Benefits:
- Company-subsidized Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
- Use What You Need Vacation Policy.
- 401K with employer match.
- Paid parental leave after one year of service.
Compensation: The range of starting pay for this role is $120,000-$125,000.
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.
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