Associate UI/UX Designer - Essex Management

About this role

Overview:

Associate UI/UX Designer - Essex Management

Location: Hybrid

### Notice to Applicants concerning Location: For anyone who is local to Maryland/the DC Metro area, this role will require someone to work onsite two (2) days at the client site who is based in Rockville, MD .

About Essex

This position supports "Essex, an Emmes Company". Essex is a biomedical informatics and health information technology-focused consultancy founded in 2009 and headquartered in Rockville, MD. The Essex team comprises experts with extensive experience in strategically developing and managing complex health and biomedical information programs for clients in the Federal Government, research academia, and private sectors.

Primary Purpose

This role works as part of the Essex Modern Technology & Engineering (MT&E) team and will be focused on UI/UX design. The role will be responsible for developing user interfaces, design prototypes, and providing design and accessibility guidance on client projects. This role provides strong career growth opportunities in an innovative technology environment working with premier research organizations.

Responsibilities:

- Design clean, accessible, and modern UIs for client projects.
- Contribute to documentation, including design process working practices and design
system guides.
- Work in a collaborative cross-functional team environment to deliver UI mocks and wireframes tied to features across all tiers in an agile environment.
- Leverage any combination of UX research techniques (e.g., card sorting, story maps) to achieve the desired design deliverable goals.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, when necessary, to complete cross-project initiatives (e.g., accessibility compliance, design system updates).

Qualifications:

• A good understanding of design techniques and principles involved in the production of conceptual prototypes and wireframes.
• Experience with application interaction design, d...