Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Raytheon is an aerospace and defense company developing data, analytics, and artificial intelligence solutions. The UX Designer will lead the design of next-generation data visualization and AI experiences, creating intuitive artifacts, interfaces, and visual representations that help users understand and act on complex insights. The role collaborates with product, engineering, research, and other cross-functional teams in an agile environment.
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 10 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
- • 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
- 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)
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 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: Employees working in remote roles will work primarily offsite (from home)
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