Junior Product Designer

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world’s most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what’s possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future.

Overview of Opportunity

Two Six Technologies is seeking a part-time Junior Product Designer to join our dynamic team designing web-based user interface functionality and products for our Cyber Operations platform serving critical national security functions.

The ideal candidate should have experience collecting user stories and use cases and going beyond the immediate requirements to propose visionary designs that solve interaction problems in new ways.

The Junior Product Designer should be comfortable creating and editing designs in a variety of modern tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.), presenting those designs through both interactive means and annotated presentations, and taking feedback to quickly adjust as needed.

Responsibilities Include:

• Collaborate with platform’s Lead Designer, technical and field engineering teams in thinking creatively about end users’ problems and use cases in order to participate in prioritizing and designing features that deliver value to our user community
• With guidance from the Lead Designer, work well independently and in a fast-paced, small team environment
• Create new UI/UX designs for specific views and functionality in tools while simultaneously participating in building the larger vision for a cohesive suite of products
• Use an existing design system to apply established design concepts to new feature-level requirements
• Suggest ways to migrate older interfaces and functionality to new products
• Be comfortable meeting with internal team members and customers to understand their use cases and needs
• Present and obtain feedback on designs
• Perform usability testing of new and existing interfaces and processes

Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum 2 years practical experience in product and UI/UX design
• Demonstrated experience with design tools such as: Figma, FigJam, Adobe Creative Suite; other equivalent tools are also acceptable
• Portfolio of design showing demonstrated web-based interface design experience
• Demonstrated understanding of responsive and adaptive design against multiple form factors
• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, if requested

Nice to Have:

• Experience creating designs allowing for simultaneous editing of content
• Experience creating designs allowing for large-scale, real-time data visualization
• Basic understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) for the sake of understanding the implementation feasibility of designs
• Experience working in an Agile environment with Atlassian collaboration tools

Clearance Required:

• Eligibility and willingness to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance, if requested