UI/UX Designer

SAIC is seeking a skilled UI/UX Designer with strong front-end development abilities to join our Arlington, VA onsite team. In this role, you will design intuitive, user-centered interfaces and craft seamless experiences for our customers across web applications. You will blend design thinking with hands-on coding to bring ideas to life in a collaborative setting.

Responsibilities

• Design and build intuitive user interfaces for web applications with a focus on usability and clarity.
• Partner with product managers, developers, and stakeholders to translate requirements into user‑centered design solutions.
• Create wireframes, high‑fidelity mockups, and interactive prototypes that convey design concepts, user flows, and interactions.
• Develop responsive front‑end code using HTML, CSS, SCSS, and JavaScript libraries, ensuring cross‑browser compatibility and optimized performance.
• Establish and maintain design systems, style guides, UI component libraries, and design tokens to support consistent, scalable experiences across products.
• Work closely with back‑end developers to integrate front‑end code with server‑side logic and databases.
• Participate in design reviews, offer constructive feedback, and contribute to a positive team environment.
• Support discovery, user research, and usability testing efforts, applying insights to iterative design improvements.
• Engage in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and thrive in a fast‑paced, iterative development setting.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a UI/UX Designer in software design.
• Proficiency with prototyping tools such as Adobe XD or Figma, and visual design tools including Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.
• Strong knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, with the ability to hand‑code and troubleshoot front‑end components in production.
• Experience with front‑end frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue.js, and design libraries such as Bootstrap and Material UI.
• Familiarity with version control systems, specifically Git.
• Understanding of user‑centered design principles, information architecture, interaction design, and scalable component‑based design systems.
• Comfort working in a lean team environment where designers contribute directly to implementation and collaborate closely with engineers.
• Experience working in an Agile environment and the ability to adapt to evolving requirements.

Technologies

• HTML
• CSS
• SCSS
• JavaScript
• Angular
• React
• Vue.js
• Bootstrap
• Material UI
• Git
• Adobe XD
• Figma
• Adobe Photoshop
• Illustrator