Ampcus is hiring: XD Designer in McLean

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job Title: XD Designer

Location(s): Mclean, VA

Strategy & Planning:

• Collaborating with technology, product, and business teams to uncover customer and business needs - then translating them into intuitive and engaging digital experiences
• Translating complex ideas into understandable concepts that evolve and enhance the product experience
• Engaging in portfolio prioritization to help set the strategy and product road map for the team
• Managing through shifting priorities to provide clear direction and input on product prioritization and support early product definition
• Advocating for the customer through human-centered design methods, including: discovery, research sketch sessions, and user testing
• Championing prioritization of design centered product enhancements grounded in research and analysis
• Working with partners and teams across various geographies
• Embracing and advocating for an experience mindset

Leading & Developing Teams:

• Building and leading successful teams through career development by mentoring, coaching, and elevating others
• Guiding team members in strategy, research, alignment, analysis, design critiques, and design execution tasks
• Navigating conflict resolution within your team as well as within projects, teams and partner relationships

Discovering & Delivering:

• Supporting early product definition by working with partners to facilitate discovery sessions that uncover customer pain points and opportunities
• Demonstrating familiarity with design tools to deliver concepts and enable successful collaboration across teams

Driving end-to-end product design by:

• Working with researchers to understand customer needs and define opportunities through usability and empathy studies
• Framing problems, defining insights, and designing new methodologies/practices to serve customer needs
• Creating process and user flows, wireframes, journey maps, and interaction models, resulting in low to high fidelity prototypes
• Planning and facilitating workshops with internal and external stakeholders to align with business needs
• Designing within existing - and creating new - standards to contribute to our internal design system, best practices, and guidelines
• Storytelling and presenting visual concepts to various stakeholders
• Creating high fidelity design assets for acceptance, development, and delivery to market in partnership with technology colleagues

Basic Qualification:

• At least 5 years of experience with User Experience design
• Preferred Qualifications
• Experience designing for cross channel experiences
• Comfortable working with a variety of business partners and delivering outcomes
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools, such as Sketch and/or Figma
• Familiarity with working in an established design system
• Experience managing a cross-functional team

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identify, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.