Description

Who We Are

For more than 25 years, Aptima's mission has been to improve and optimize performance in mission-critical, technology-intensive environments. We apply deep expertise in how humans think, learn, and perform to today's challenges. Whether for fighter pilots functioning in the cockpit, medical staff in the ICU, or teams collaborating across distributed networks, we are working to ensure synergy, enhance productivity, and accelerate learning, training, and readiness.

Our culture is rooted in our core values, which have evolved over time and our employees have embraced – Integrity, Ingenuity, Excellence, Respect, Inclusion, Teamwork. At our core, Aptima researches, develops, and innovates within an area that engineering firms largely ignore, the human component. To impact the world in meaningful ways, you must bring those innovations to light, and that is precisely what we do.

How You’ll Make An Impact

As a UI/UX Designer at Aptima you’ll take a co-creative approach to designing user experiences with multi-disciplinary teams solving challenging real-world problems on the cutting edge of R&D. In this role, you’ll be continually raising the bar for UX in innovative problem spaces such as human-AI collaboration and human performance optimization. Responsibilities include:

Participating in the design process on projects alongside teammates and stakeholders
Empathizing with users and customers, and advocating for their needs
Iterating designs from lo-fi sketches to pixel perfect, implementation-ready prototypes
Communicating design requirements to software engineers and collaborating with them to seamlessly transition designs from wireframes to code
Collaborating on proposals to win exciting new projects
Shaping Aptima’s design culture as a contributing member of our Design Community of Practice

Aptima is a fast-paced, forward-looking organization. Our projects span a wide range of domains, so you’ll always be learning and never be bored. We’re looking for team players with a positive attitude and strong collaboration skills who want to help teams execute at every stage of the design process, communicating ideas through artifacts like wireframes, workflows, interactive prototypes, user stories, and user personas. You’ll learn to lead engaging design studios that encourage team members to participate in creative problem-solving exercises, and you’ll work directly with software engineers to make your dreams a reality.

Requirements

Strong understanding of design methods and processes
Strong visual design experience in Figma, Axure, or equivalent prototyping tool
Ability to work independently, taking in design requirements from design and/or project leads and building prototypes which fulfill them
Detail-oriented, with an eye for creating elegant and beautiful visual designs
Ability to work collaboratively in multi-disciplinary team environments
Familiarity with current design trends and best practices in the industry
Experience working with multiple stakeholders (such as users, software engineers, project leads, and management) to resolve problems and recommend alternative approaches
Comfort stepping outside your comfort zone, exploring new problems and challenges
Willingness to travel, oftentimes to military sites to visit customers
Ability to obtain DoD security clearance
Bachelors’ Degree in a related field (e.g. Design, Human Factors, Design, Computer Science, Communications Design). Experience may act as a substitute for education.
2-4 years of experience in User Experience Design or a related field
UI-UX Portfolio

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or any other status protected by applicable national, federal, state or local law.

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