User Interface / User Experience Designer in Columbia, Iowa at ONEGLOBE LLC

The UI/UX Designer shapes how mission analysts and decision-makers experience the team's analytic products. They lead user research, interaction and visual design, and accessibility for dashboards, internal tools, and case-management interfaces. They work alongside data scientists and engineers to ensure analytic outputs are clear, accessible, and Section 508-compliant.

• Lead user research with mission analysts and stakeholders — interviews, contextual inquiry, usability testing — to inform design decisions.
• Translate research and requirements into user flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity designs.
• Develop and document UI standards, design tokens, and component libraries to drive consistency across analytic products
• Proactively address Section 508 compliance (36 CFR 1194.21, 1194.22, 1194.31, 1194.41) — color contrast, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, alt text, and accessible data visualization.
• Partner with data scientists to design effective visualizations of complex mission data, including analytic and decision-support dashboards.
• Participate in software project lifecycle activities to ensure operational and performance requirements are met.
• Conduct accessibility testing using federally-approved methods and tools, in alignment with the customer's accessibility office.

• Bachelor's degree in Design, Fine Arts, User Interface Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related discipline.
• Two (2)+ years of user interface / user experience design experience.
• Portfolio demonstrating end-to-end design work — research, ideation, prototyping, testing, and shipped product.
• Working knowledge of Section 508 and WCAG accessibility standards.
• Strong written and visual communication skills.

• Experience designing data-rich applications, analytic dashboards, or case-management tools.
• Familiarity with the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS).
• Front-end implementation skills (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React) for prototyping.
• Experience working with screen-reader and accessibility testing tools (NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver, axe, WAVE, ANDI).
• Experience designing for federal or other regulated environments.

• Design: Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, Adobe Creative Suite.
• Prototyping & handoff: Figma, ProtoPie, Zeplin, Storybook.
• Research & testing: Maze, UserTesting, Lookback, Optimal Workshop, Dovetail.
• Accessibility: axe, WAVE, ANDI, NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver; USWDS.
• Front-end (a plus): HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Tailwind.

U.S. Citizenship required. Candidates must currently possess or be able to favorably pass a five (5) year federal background investigation prior to start.

OneGlobe LLC is a small business headquartered in Virginia that has delivered innovative software engineering, cloud, data, and AI/ML solutions to federal customers since 2005. We are an AWS Partner Network Advanced Tier Consulting Partner, CMMI-DEV Level 3 appraised, and have been recognized as a Top Workplace. Our culture emphasizes continuous learning, collaboration, and mission-focused delivery — and we invest in our people through training, certifications, and clear career pathways.

OneGlobe is staffing a federal data science services team that supports a high-impact mission program. The team works alongside business analysts, machine learning engineers, application developers, and government leaders to build analytic and AI/ML capabilities on top of an enterprise analytics platform. The work spans predictive and prescriptive analytics, machine learning, natural language processing, graph analytics, visualization, and unified case management — at a scale of millions of records per day. Engagements typically run from three-month sprints to multi-year capability builds, on mostly structured data drawn from many disparate sources.