UI/UX Designer

Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.

Headquartered in Washington, DC's historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation's most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us.

Barbaricum is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support the Department of Defense’s Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer (CDAO) in accelerating the DoD’s adoption of data, analytics, and AI. The Search Portfolio serves the fundamental need to accelerate decision advantage through information accessibility, information retrieval and insight extraction. The Portfolio will sustain the GAMECHANGER, Contract Search, and JBook Search applications on the Advana platform as the platform upgrades and evolves. This role will be essential as it ensures that complex AI and machine learning solutions are designed with the end-user experience in mind, maximizing usability, adoption, and mission effectiveness.

Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise to support agile development using methodologies based on iterative development, requirements and solutions.
• Translates/transforms user research information into actionable user interface requirements and workflows.
• Produces high quality solutions through hybrid wireframe and visual designs, flow diagrams, storyboards, site maps and prototypes.
• Rapidly iterates on design prototypes and working applications that contribute to the design, development, and testing of AI/ML tools and delivery methods.
• Develops mock-up solutions that can be implemented quickly.
• Tests and validates usability by monitoring and reporting metrics, determining potential, leveraging research and analytics to drive product updates and improved user experience. Uses available tooling to quantify user activity and utilization of application capabilities. Produces visualizations of application usage data for analysis of user behavior. 
• Applies the principles, methods and techniques of user-based design with an in-depth knowledge of complex computer-based systems to support capabilities that include development of artificial intelligence solutions.
• Supports technical activities of the end users identifying mission goals, desired metrics, data standards and user workflows.
• Works with end-users to build and analyze user stories to identify common users’, system, software and interface requirements for capability design and development.
• Identifies end user processes, software and other mission issues that could be improved using AI.
• Captures and formulates final articulation of user needs that will define the broader user experience by gathering and incorporating end-user feedback from user interviews, usability tests, surveys, data analysis, and similar methods.
• Designs and prototypes specific AI or ML solutions. Understands user needs, behaviors, and motivations, through empathizing with the user, the analyst can inform design decisions and advocate for the user.
• Works closely with Mission and Capability Delivery teams to help determine product goals.
• Collaborates with team members on user research, customer testing, and iterative feedback loops.

Qualifications

• Must have an active DoD Top Secret clearance and must be able to achieve a TS/SCI clearance with scope.
• Bachelor’s degree plus 7-10 years experience, or a Masters Degree plus 5 years of experience.
• Experience with usability testing, including preparing test plans and associated wireframes, facilitating test sessions, analyzing data, and reporting and presenting results.
• Experience with creating and documenting information design concepts and solutions by various means, including wireframes, prototypes, and task flow diagrams.
• Must possess excellent written and oral communication skills, and demonstrate experience and capability to make presentations to and interact with end-users.
• Must have prior experience conducting user interviews, and contextual inquiries.
• Experience with user tracking and metrics tooling such as Matomo.
• Experience with visualization of user metrics using Qlik and/or Tableau.
• Any usability/ UX related certification (e.g. CUA) is preferred.

Additional Information

For more information about Barbaricum, please visit our website at www.barbaricum.com. We will contact candidates directly to schedule interviews. No phone calls please.