Senior UX/UI Designer

Description

CDW Government is seeking an experienced Senior UX/UI Designer to support the design and delivery of modern digital solutions. This hands-on individual contributor will lead human-centered design activities, create intuitive user experiences, and deliver production-ready design assets that improve public health technology and disease surveillance systems. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in UX, UI, human-centered design, accessibility, and design systems. This role partners with product managers, engineers, public health subject-matter experts, and government stakeholders. The designer will also mentor peers through design critiques, facilitate workshops, and promote practical UX standards across project teams.

What You Will Do

• Lead the end-to-end UX and product design process, from discovery through implementation, for enterprise and public health applications.
• Plan and facilitate stakeholder interviews, user interviews, contextual inquiry, journey mapping, design-thinking workshops, ideation sessions, and co-creation workshops.
• Translate complex public health workflows and business processes into clear, intuitive digital experiences.
• Create personas, journey maps, information architecture, task flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity interface designs.
• Develop and maintain a scalable design system based on the U.S. Web Design System or a comparable enterprise design system.
• Create reusable Figma component libraries with documentation, usage guidance, specifications, and developer handoff details.
• Partner with front-end developers to maintain design fidelity and support successful implementation.
• Conduct usability testing and turn qualitative and quantitative findings into practical design recommendations.
• Promote accessible and inclusive design, including Section 508 and WCAG compliance.
• Participate in design reviews, sprint reviews, progress updates, readouts, and stakeholder presentations.
• Mentor junior designers through collaborative coaching, critiques, and knowledge sharing.

What We Expect of You

• Bachelor’s degree in human-centered design, human-computer interaction, UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, graphic design, information design, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience may be considered.
• 10+ years of professional experience in product design, UX design, UI design, human-centered design, or a related field.
• Current human-centered design certification and a current UX certification from a recognized organization or training provider.
• Certified ScrumMaster or equivalent Agile certification or training.
• Formal training or demonstrated experience in Section 508 compliance and WCAG accessibility standards.
• Expert proficiency with Figma for design, prototyping, component libraries, and developer handoff.
• Demonstrated experience creating, documenting, and governing enterprise design systems using USWDS or a similar component-based system.
• Strong knowledge of responsive design, usability, interaction design, visual design, information architecture, and user research methods.
• Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder-engagement skills.
• Experience working within Agile or Scrum software-development teams.
• Experience supporting public health, government, or healthcare technology initiatives, is a plus.
• Understanding of state, tribal, local, and territorial public health operations and workflows, is a plus.
• Familiarity with disease surveillance, infectious-disease reporting, case management, epidemiology workflows, and public health modernization, is a plus.
• Experience with public health surveillance platforms such as NBS, EpiTrax, or Maven, is a plus.
• Experience supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or another federal public health agency, is a plus.
• Familiarity with public health interoperability standards and data-exchange initiatives, is a plus.

Pay range: $105,000 - $150,180 depending on experience and skill set

Annual bonus target of 10% subject to terms and conditions of plan

Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/

Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials

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