Enterprise User Experience Designer Data, Research, Guides

Erias Ventures was founded to serve its customers with an entrepreneurial mindset. We valuecreative problem-solvingopen communication andempowering our employeesto make decisions and put forth new ideas.

Our staff includes technical experts working across multiple disciplines bringing diverse perspectives to every project. We are seeking engineers who wish to grow their careers and want to become part of atechnicallystrongandgrowth-orientedcompany focused on bringinginnovative solutionsto the difficult mission problems facing our customers.

Description
Responsible for leading the plan design and development activities to create the user experience for devices tools and systems. Responsible for establishing interactive conventions assisting in gathering user requirements mocking-up user experiences participating in trade-off discussions with development teams and subject matter experts analyzing tool sets creating screen mock-ups and helping customers to imagine new kinds of interactive techniques and technologies. Applies visualization and screen design expertise to create a successful user experience.

• Support the UX Lead by conducting user research sessions (interviews usability tests contextual inquiries) to collect raw behavioral and attitudinal data.
• Execute discussion guides screeners and research protocols as defined by the UX Lead.
• Observe and document user behaviors pain points and patterns during sessions distinguishing what users say from what they actually do or need.
• Administer quantitative data collection methods (surveys card sorting tree testing) in support of research plans set by the UX Lead.
• Compile and organize raw research data (notes session artifacts) into clean structured formats for UX lead to synthesize.

Clearance
A current Top-Secret/SCIwith polygraph security clearance is required. Candidates cannot be sponsored or nominated for a government security clearance under this position.Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related discipline from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional User Experience Design experience on projects with similar design may be substituted for a bachelors degree.

Required skills:

• Ten years experience in User Experience Design.
• Five years experience within the last 10 years experience leading project life cycle design.
• Experience with Information Technology: Three (3) years experience with screen mock-up tools (e.g. Powerpoint Visio Axure) and related industry tools used to create visual displays and prototypes
• Hands-on experience conducting usability testing interviews and/pr contextual inquiry directly with end users.
• Comfortable assisting research sessions alongside a UX lead. Experience independently running research studies end-to-end (objective-setting study design execution and synthesis) is a plus.
• Working knowledge of both qualitative discovery methods (usability testing contextual inquiry) and quantitative data collection methods (surveys analytics review A/B testing card sorting tree testing session observation). Demonstrated experience is a plus.
• Strong note-taking and data organization skills where they are able to capture and structure raw findings accurately for leadership synthesis and analysis.
• Reliable detail-oriented execution of research protocols with minimal need for independent research strategy or stakeholder presentation.
• Comfort operating with ambiguous evolving requirements typical of mission/IC environments that is able to define research questions when none is handed to them is a plus.