UX Designer and Strategist

## UX Designer and Strategist Are you ready to transform user interaction with web applications? We are seeking a creative and experienced UX Designer and Strategist to lead user experience initiatives, ensuring designs meet user needs and client vision. ### About the Role As a UX Strategist, you will: * Guide UX designers and product managers, translating client visions and user needs. * Lead Agile teams, converting research into actionable user insights. * Oversee the complete digital creative process: user research, information architecture, rapid prototyping, interface design, usability testing, and product implementation. * Advocate for design-centered changes, refinements, and improvements, prioritizing the end-user. ### Required Qualifications * 5+ years of experience in web design. * Proficiency in producing low to high-fidelity, interactive mockups. * Experience developing and maintaining roadmaps and UX testing schedules. * Demonstrated experience working within an Agile environment and designing systems (e.g., USWDS, component-based design). * Ability to elicit business requirements from stakeholders, develop user stories, and interpret customer feedback from diverse sources. * Extensive experience with UX research methods and deliverables, including conducting user testing (usability, card sorting, A/B testing). * Ability to drive UX strategic change within a Federal Agency. * Strong collaborative skills to influence, mobilize, and energize cross-functional teams. * Eligibility for Public Trust. * Bachelor's degree. ### Preferred Qualifications * Experience in Angular or front-end development. * Prior support for large-scale, public-facing web design efforts. * Experience conducting competitive analysis and tracking design trends. * Background in UX strategy, content strategy, product management, service design, or UX copywriting. * Ability to facilitate stakeholder discussions, reviews, and workshops. * Strong communication skills.