Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. RTX is an aerospace and defense company seeking a seasoned UX Designer to lead the design of next-generation data visualization and AI experiences. The role focuses on translating complex data and AI outputs into intuitive, actionable interfaces while collaborating with product, engineering, research, and cross-functional teams.
Responsibilities
- Create high-quality artifacts that convey the critical conceptual aspects of data‑driven experiences, including visualization, storytelling, and the incorporation of AI insights to ensure a cohesive outcome
- Create high fidelity wireframes, prototypes, and user interfaces
- Design intuitive visual representations of AI outputs: such as predictions, recommendations, confidence levels, and model reasoning, to help users quickly understand and act on insights
- Collaborate effectively on a cross-functional software product team with designers, product managers, business analysts, front end, & back-end software engineers, QA, and project managers
- Participate in primary (in-field) and secondary research activities with customers, employees, and other relevant business stakeholders to identify personas, create journey maps, service blueprints, application maps, task flow diagrams, etc
- Work in an agile software development environment
- Present design work and articulate the rationale behind visual, architectural, and interaction decisions, particularly those involving AI transparency and explainability
- Collaborate closely with product managers to help create user stories and related project documentation
- Participate in design critique sessions; both providing and responding to feedback on designs
Skills
- Typically requires a University Degree or equivalent experience and a minimum of 8 years of prior relevant experience, or an Advanced Degree in a related field and minimum 7 years experience
- Demonstrated experience creating data visualization UX designs
- Demonstrated experience working within agile development environments and partnering closely with front‑end engineering teams to translate design concepts into high‑quality, production‑ready solutions
- U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are authorized to access information under this program/contract
- The successful candidate for this role will be required to reside and work from one of the 50 U.S. states (excluding U.S. territories)
- Bachelor's degree in Design, Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), Computer Science, or a related field
- Ability to create high-quality visual artifacts including diagrams, presentations, prototypes, wireframes, etc. that drive understanding among users, team members and project stakeholders
- Experience designing interfaces that communicate AI behavior, outputs, or probabilistic insights in ways that feel trustworthy and intuitive
- Ability to translate complex data and model information into clear visual narratives that support user decision‑making
- Experience with digital design tools, such as Sketch, Adobe XD, Figma, etc
- Self-motivated, self-driven and willing to take on new responsibilities
- Fluency with simple prototyping tools, such as Invision, Figma, and experience with more advanced prototyping tools that offer richer interaction and animation capabilities, such as Principle or Framer
- Experience using and working with component-based design systems such as Material UI
- Propensity for self-directed problem-solving and the ability to work with limited guidance
- General familiarity with technology underpinnings of interfaces, including presentation layer code (JavaScript/CSS/HTML, React, Objective-C, etc.) and architecture for web and mobile experiences
- Ability to identify, articulate and leverage common design patterns and articulate why they should or shouldn't be used
- Experience in creating user experience flows for Analytical and GenAI insights, recommendations, forecasting, and/or chatbots
- Extensive experience applying and leading user-centered design processes and connecting business and user needs to design decisions
- Experience designing, participating in and leveraging user research activities; ability to understand and gain fluency with complex problems and drive elegant solutions that address them
- Deep systems thinking skills; fluency with conceptual considerations such as modularity, data and program hierarchy, inheritance and flow
- Ability to lead and educate a novice user/customer population, translating expertise into understanding
- Effective at collaborating with cross-functional teams (IRL and remote) and working under tight deadlines
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Flexible work schedules
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Holidays
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs, depending on the level of the position and whether or not it is covered by a collective-bargaining agreement
- Remote work arrangement: employees work primarily offsite (from home) and may be expected to travel to the site location as needed
Company Overview