[Hiring] Designer III - Accessibility @Ad Hoc

Role Description

Designer III serves as an emerging individual contributor within a team, expanding your leadership, guidance and mentoring skills. With the support and guidance of leadership, you will be responsible for supporting the goal of meeting scope, schedule and delivery requirements. You will interact with stakeholders and utilize influential skills to drive improvements in design processes and practices. Primary expectations of a Designer III include:

• Exhibits influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management team members
• Responsible for both program tactical assignments, as well as strategic initiatives to meet delivery requirements
• Ability to navigate ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery
• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes
• Utilizes design skills including typography and hierarchy
• Supports the development and communication of milestones; and delivers upon their area of expertise
• Proactively partners with Senior Designers, and is receptive to mentorship
• Leads the development of competitive analyses and reports results to stakeholders
• Contributes to design libraries, providing visual design and brand artifacts
• Collaborates with a multi-disciplined team to facilitate discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements
• Demonstrates the ability to coach and mentor designers, with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow within the design discipline
• Development of storytelling skills to deliver compelling artifacts and presentations that distill highly complex issues into focused, understandable solutions
• Leads human centered design processes and deliverables in compliance with standards and regulations
• May lead accessibility tasks inclusive of 508 compliance and have knowledge of other emerging accessibility standards
• Ability to identify risks and communicate to leadership; provides recommendations to mitigate identified risks
• May develop and manage content for highly visible websites or applications, abiding by design guidelines

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of experience
• Relevant years of experience may be substituted for education
• Progressive experience with design principles and relevant technologies, understands roles with which they interact and how their work impacts business goals
• Experience with design software such as Figma, Miro, Adobe or other designer tools
• Policy and guidance support for Section 508/WCAG compliance
• Design test cases/plans
• SME on Accessibility tools/techniques

Benefits

• Company-subsidized health, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO
• 401K with employer match
• Paid parental leave after one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program