We are Phoenix Defense

At Phoenix Defense, our team members have incredible opportunities to work on state-of-the-art modeling and simulation programs that prepare the nation’s armed forces to protect and serve our country and allies throughout the world. We look for people who have bold new ideas, courage, and an entrepreneurial spirit to join forces to create the future while having fun along the way. Our culture thrives on intellectual curiosity, cognitive diversity and bringing your whole self to work — and we have an insatiable drive to do what others think is impossible.

We are Seeking

With every job we fill, our focus is on providing best in class service to our customers while offering the opportunity for professional growth in a rewarding and innovative work environment. We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated professional to fill the position of UX Designer. This position is approved for remote work.

The UX Designer reports up through the JLCCTC (Joint Land Component Constructive Training Capability) Software Engineering Team. This role is focused on designing UX/UI for the consumer acquisition experience across the JLCCTC program. You must think in non-linear terms: capturing interactions, edge-cases, and the various states of these experiences through deliverables such as user flows, wireframes, prototypes to high fidelity final deliverables. You should be comfortable with an agile approach to design, with an emphasis on user testing and rapid iteration.

Outside exceptional and high-velocity UX/UI thinking, success in this role is dependent on being self-motivated, organized, open to feedback and critique, and being collaborative. Notably, you will focus heavily on interactions and aesthetics, ensuring that look and feel tells a cohesive and compelling brand story.

What you Will Do

• Work with product owners and business analysts to define UX/UI requirements and designs informed by user interviews, heuristic evaluation of pre-existing tools, and iterative usability testing
• Create wireframes, high fidelity mockups, prototypes, user flows, information architecture diagrams, or other artifacts required to build shared understanding across cross-functional teams
• Creates layouts, comps, and /CSS prototypes, to communicate vision and final requirements to internal stakeholders and teams
• Participates in user research, usability validation, and A/B testing
• Works closely with other team members including Systems and Software Engineers to guide execution and navigate technical constraints and tradeoffs while bringing UX/UI designs to life
• Assesses and optimizes the performance of new and existing features by actively participating in user research and assessing performance metrics.
• Advocates for design solutions, highlighting inputs that influenced the decisions including business and user goals, demographic and usage data, and research findings.

About You

You are someone who effectively exceeds customer needs by building productive relationships and taking responsibility for customer satisfaction and loyalty. You actively participate as a member of a team to move the team toward the completion of goals while producing quality outcomes. You take great pride in proactively managing time and resources to ensure that work is completed efficiently while accomplishing objectives and achieving goals beyond what is required.

At Phoenix Defense, we hire innovative, forward-thinking problem-solvers who love what they do! In addition to possessing the ability to live out our core values daily, candidates must possess the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in design, human-computer interaction (HCI), or related degree
• 5-7 years of demonstrated experience in creating and implementing UX design
• Ability to work effectively in a collaborative environment to create top-performing interfaces
• Experience with coding and ability to troubleshoot using HTML, CSS and comparable languages
• Continued education and research into UX trends and current design strategy and technologies
• Professional written and interpersonal skills when communicating with customers and clients
• Ability to prioritize and manage several milestones and projects efficiently
• Account for challenges using problem-solving skills and seek to optimize data for the best possible outcome
• Ability to obtain or currently hold a DOD clearance
• Due to the nature of work performed, U.S. citizenship is required

Up For the Challenge

In addition to a competitive salary, Phoenix Defense offers a comprehensive benefit package that includes generous 401K with company match, medical, vision, and dental plans, life insurance, disability, tuition reimbursement and more.

Join us! Together, we will develop state of the art, visually appealing, easy to use modeling and simulation systems! If you are looking for an opportunity to make an impact, and get excited about doing interesting work that matters, then apply now and begin your next professional adventure. We can't think of a better place to put your talents to work.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This position is be operated in an office and/or computer lab type environment. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands and fingers to handle, type or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.

Prospective or new employees may seek an exemption to the vaccination requirement at careers@phx-defense.com and must have an approved exemption prior to the start of their employment. Customer site vaccination requirements, if more strict, will take precedence over Phoenix Defense's vaccination policy

Phoenix Defense, LLC and its family of companies maintains a Drug-Free Workplace Program.

Phoenix Defense and its group of companies is an agile provider of engineering, manufacturing, information technology, Modeling & Simulation and logistics services to the defense, aerospace, and critical infrastructure markets. The company is made up of talented experts, with years of defense and commercial industry experience, who reliably solve technical and programmatic challenges related to aerospace design and manufacturing, as well as complex logistical challenges related to delivery of critical infrastructure (Medical, Energy, IT and Transportation).

Phoenix Defense, recognized on the 2019 & 2020 Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America, is looking for talent that can easily integrate into a success-oriented team environment where the focus is on positive customer engagement and outcomes in the form of superior quality and on time delivery permeates our culture.

Experience

• 5 - 7 years: years of demonstrated experience

Education

• Bachelors or better

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)