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| Department: | Federal Civilian |
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This is a remote position.
Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.
Work on things that matter
Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions 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 approaches technology.
Built for a remote life
Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.
Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture
Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.
The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.
Primary Responsibilities:
Senior Designer serves as an experienced individual contributor within a team, with the expectation that you will further develop your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With minimal oversight from leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. A Senior Designer impacts the long-term goals of the program, while contributing to the development of the program’s design strategy. You may serve as the discipline’s primary lead when working with stakeholders and utilize strong influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Senior Designer include:
Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management
May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads
Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
Leads 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
Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy
Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
Demonstrates the ability to coach designers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways
Manages the development of competitive analysis, and reports results to stakeholders
Contributes to the design libraries and provides visual design and brand artifacts
Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements
Experienced with storytelling to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions
May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge of other emerging accessibility standards
Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks
May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines
Participates in grading candidate homeworks and participating in panel interviews
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience
Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
Analyze user needs to determine functional requirements and define problems and develop plans and requirements in the subject matter area for moderately complex to complex systems related to information systems architecture, networking; telecommunications, automation, communications protocols, risk management/electronic analysis, software, lifecycle management, software development methodologies, and modeling and simulation
Perform functional allocation to identify required tasks and their interrelationships
Identify resources required for each task
Demonstrate exceptional oral and written communication skills
Commensurate experience in IT and in new and related older technology that relates to the required are of expertise
Prior experience serving as a mentor to junior level team members
Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools
Preferred Qualifications:
Prior government contracting experience
To learn more about working at Ad Hoc, please visit:https://adhocteam.us/join
Benefits:
Ad Hoc LLC is an Equal Opportunity 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.
We value the unique skills gained through military service and encourage veterans and transitioning service members to apply.
In support of various state and city equal pay transparency laws, Ad Hoc job descriptions feature the starting range we reasonably expect to pay to candidates who would join our team with little to no need for training on the responsibilities we've outlined above. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role is $125,000 - $160,000. Our recruiters will be happy to answer any questions you may have, and we look forward to learning more about your salary requirements.
