Overview

Design. Disrupt. Repeat.

Be an agent of change on a team committed to achieving client-focused, mission-driven excellence. Steampunk is looking for an experienced User Experience Manager with an appetite for taking on new challenges to join our team and collaborate closely with the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). In this role, you will play a key part in ensuring a secure and user-friendly digital experience across our organization's information systems. The successful candidate will bring a strong background in user interface design and a deep understanding of human centered design.

Who We Are

Steampunk is the explosive collision of human-centered design and traditional government contracting. An employee-owned company with a startup mindset and time-tested approaches tailored for the federal government, we’re passionate about creating solutions that are impactful, practical, scalable, and most importantly, that meet our clients’ ever-changing needs. At Steampunk, we believe in disrupting the status quo and setting the pace in the ecosystem of government contractors, while creatively improving tried-and-true methodologies. We believe in empowering our people to find innovative solutions to intractable problems. We believe the best environment in which to grow and thrive is outside our comfort zone.

While good design makes for a good product, we believe human-centered design makes for an excellent one.

Why Steampunk?

Our people are the very core of what we do; their expertise and hunger for new and exciting challenges fuel our relentless pursuit of mission success. As part of our team, you’ll test the status quo, explore new boundaries, and set the bar high for how government clients expect to engage with contractors.

Contributions

Responsibilities

As a Steampunk User Experience Designer, you will be responsible for collaborating with the Office of CISO leadership and cross-functional teams to develop and implement a secure and user-centric design strategy. You will lead the design and optimization of user interfaces with a focus on adoptability and usability of the systems we develop; you will employ design techniques that always put the users perspective first in the solution.

Detailed responsibilities include:

• Acting as the designer for a variety of projects 
• Lead creation of clear web and digital experiences for primarily government clients

• Work closely with both external clients and internal, cross-functional teams on projects that range from a few weeks to a few months in length.

• Communicate with government stakeholders and decision-makers in compelling ways using a variety of visual mediums.

Qualifications

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizen
• Bachelor of Arts in Graphic Design or related field.
• Proven experience as a User Experience Designer or similar role with a focus on security.
• Up to nine years of experience delivering interface design solutions for various clients, including highly detailed annotated wireframes and user flows within complex web or mobile applications
• Strong portfolio demonstrating successful UX/UI design projects
• Hands-on experience with Adobe Creative Suite and Rapid prototyping tools like Axure
• Strong client communication skills
• Experience developing rapid prototypes and producing wireframes for user interfaces
• Ability to obtain a U.S. government security clearance

 Preferred Skills:

• Experience working on a cross functional Salesforce implementation team

About steampunk

Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry, bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland, Federal Civilian, Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology, we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee 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 http://www.steampunk.com.

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 law. Steampunk participates in the E-Verify program.