Ui/ux lead

Type of Requisition:

Pipeline

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:

None

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:

None

Public Trust/Other Required:

Other

Job Family:

Software Engineering

Job Qualifications:

Skills:

Accessibility Standards, Human-Centered Design, User Experience Development, User Interface Development, UX Leadership

Certifications:

None

Experience:

10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required:

No

Job Description:

Seize your opportunity to make a personal impact as the UI/UX Lead supporting an enterprise-scale, cloud-native modernization initiative, shaping the user experience, and ensuring all digital interactions support the mission, enhance usability, and meet the needs of federal customers.

How a UI/UX Lead Will Make an Impact

• Lead human-centered design efforts across mission-critical digital products.
• Conduct and synthesize user research to inform product strategy and iterative development.
• Develop personas, journey maps, workflows, wireframes, and prototypes aligned with federal accessibility standards.
• Drive UX governance, ensuring consistent design patterns and accessibility compliance across products.
• Collaborate with product managers and developers to refine requirements and validate design assumptions.

What You’ll Need to Succeed

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human-Computer Interaction, UX Design, Computer Science, or related field.
• Equivalent experience will be considered for highly qualified candidates.

Experience:

• 10+ years designing user experiences for large-scale, enterprise applications.
• Demonstrated experience performing comprehensive user research, including designing and delivering surveys, conducting user interviews, and compiling and analyzing data gained from these activities.
• Demonstrated experience using design thinking methodologies, Agile concepts and practices, and product management principles to develop customer-focused software products.
• Experience with visual and interaction design, specifically creating and implementing user interfaces based on user data gathering and analysis.

Technical Skills:

• Proficiency with UX tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Miro, or Axure.
• Strong knowledge of human-centered design, interaction design, and usability heuristics.
• Understanding of accessibility principles and Section 508/WCAG compliance.
• Ability to develop wireframes, prototypes, interaction flows, and annotated specifications.

Security Clearance Level:

Ability to pass a security background check.

Skills & Abilities:

• Ability to communicate design direction to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to translate complex workflows into intuitive user interfaces.
• Strong facilitation skills for design workshops and user research sessions.

Location:

Remote. Some travel may be required.

Timeline:

This is a contingent position, expected to start in March 2027.

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

The likely salary range for this position is $149,469 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Travel Required:

Less than 10%

Telecommuting Options:

Remote

Work Location:

Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:

Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Our Identity Verification Process:

As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.

About Our Work:

We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

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