We are looking for a creative UI Designer to help us create, improve, and innovate the user-friendly interfaces that make our products successful.
- Part of a design process involving research, experimentation, and revision.
- Incorporate usability testing feedback.
- Elicit constructive feedback and capable of interpreting that feedback into design solutions.
- Perform field research to discover and implement important design details that people may not realize they need.
- Collaborate with others and work well with developers and product management.
- Familiar with Agile/Scum methodology.
- Ability to solve all sorts of design challenges with creativity, efficiency and precision; a full stack designer (interaction, usability, graphic design, html, css).
- Skilled at building web sites and applications and an understanding of how they work.
- Comfortable designing for web browsing through any device: be it a desktop, laptop, iPad or smartphone.
- Must be self-directed, confident, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent communication, both written and spoken English, with both technical and not-so-technical people. Ability to explain why a design works or why it doesn't
- U.S. citizenship, and eligible to obtain clearance required
- Minimum of 3-4 years of web and user application design experience.
- Able to integrate UX into Agile development practices. We release working software in
short iterations.
- Strong visual design skills: Latest trends, color, typography
- Strong interaction design skills: wireframing, prototyping, HTML5, CSS3
- A passion for semantic mark-up and standards
- Experience in developing graphic assets scalable for mobile devices (e.g. iPhone/iPad/Android)
DOE
Alexandria, VA / Silverdale, WA / Anywhere in the United States
What We Do
Since 1980 ATS has been a recognized leader in delivering readiness and maintenance solutions along with a variety of data management and software development services. Our first and foremost corporate objective is to always do what is best for our customers. We engage our customers in the solutions development process, understanding their challenges and requirements, and delivering value quickly and cost effectively. ATS takes pride in doing the right thing right -- and in that order.
Our work has a direct impact on our country's national defense, the day-to-day productivity of businesses across the nation delivering innovative ideas and concepts that will shape our future.
Our employees are experts who challenge each other to grow as part of a productive team. They aren't stuck working just one aspect of the job... they have their hands on a variety of projects. It's a small company and each of our employees' skills directly influences the company's success.
Company headquarters is located in beautiful Silverdale, Wash. (just a ferry ride away from Seattle), which lies between two mountain ranges is just a few minutes' drive to Puget Sound. We also have offices located in the great metro areas of Alexandria, Va. and Norfolk, Va.