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Job Location drjobs

Mclean, VA - USA

Monthly Salary drjobs

$ 85000 - 150000

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

Overview

Design. Disrupt. Repeat.

Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving clientfocused missiondriven excellence. Steampunk is the explosive collision of humancentered design and traditional government contracting. We are an employeeowned company with a startup mindset and timetested approaches tailored for the federal government. Were passionate about creating solutions that are impactful practical and scalable while meeting our clients everchanging needs. We believe in empowering our people to find creative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone. We believe that while good design makes for a good experience humancentered design makes for an excellent one.

Contributions

Contributions

As a Disruption Designer you will be responsible for guiding government clients through our Design Intelligence framework; incorporating humancentered and design thinking methods to focus on the people impacted by transformation and change engaging them to embrace and adapt to new ways of working while identifying and mitigating areas of resistance.

Responsibilities:

  • Participate in all aspects of discovery to understand: client mission and goals; stakeholders users and their ecosystems; current state journeys; user segments; program project and transformation objectives
  • Conduct workshops and interviews to frame pain points and opportunities; define problem statements and determine change readiness and areas of resistance
  • Synthesize research and data and craft compelling stories and presentations to communicate insights and recommendations that will shape transformation and change enablement
  • Develop and deploy change management plans that articulate actionable recommendations for organizational and workflow improvement including:
    • Communications plans
    • Training plans and resources
    • Sustainability plans
  • Develop deploy and measure key performance indicators for transformation and adoption
  • Collaborate and communicate stakeholder and user needs on a cross functional team within an agile environment
  • Understand and embrace the specifications and constraints of a given technology platform and/or operational environment and understand how change management should be integrated into technological considerations
  • Ensure all deliverables across a variety of projects are produced at the highest quality
  • Collaborate regularly with the technical development team in order to communicate client priorities and help shape the product; be able to translate technical jargon and instructions into language that client stakeholders or product endusers will be able to understand
  • Be able to do light design work or collaborate with design specialists in order to produce comprehensive training documents

Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Ability to obtain a U.S. Government Public Trust Security Clearance
  • Minimum 4 years of experience
  • Demonstrated experience in current state assessments future state visioning and communication planning
  • Demonstrated experience conducting user and stakeholder interviews and synthesizing data and insights into personas action and training plans
  • A natural curiosity for solving problems coupled with strong analytical skills
  • A collaborative nature with excellent written communication and presentation skills
  • Experience working in a projectbased environment
  • Bachelors Degree required

Preferred Qualities

  • Previous work experience in or with the federal government
  • Previous work experience as a consultant
  • Experience in HumanCentered Design / Customer ExperienceDesign
  • Experience working on multidisciplinary crossfunctional teams including Service Designers UX and UI designers technologists data scientists engineers and solution architects
  • Experience working within an Agile delivery framework including writing user stories and story pointing

About steampunk

AboutSteampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary including but not limited to geographic location contractual requirements education knowledge skills competencies and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $85000 to $150000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunks total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

Identity Statement

As part of the application process you are expected to be on camera during interviews and assessments. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud.

Steampunk is aChange Agentin the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through ourDesign Intelligence process we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As anemployee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .

We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by participates in the EVerify program.

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