Senior Designer

This is a contingent position, and employment is dependent upon Element 84 receiving the contract award.

Element 84 is looking for a UI Designer/Front End Engineer to join our team of "Impatient Optimists" who are building software that helps answer critical questions. In this role, you’d be serving a single client who is a non-profit focused on upholding best practices for social, environmental, and ethical responsibility in global supply chains for their member companies. You’d help redesign their tools that help their member companies and their suppliers ensure safe working conditions and responsible business practices.

An ideal candidate for this role is excited by the challenge of converting detailed complicated workflows into thoughtful designs, takes great pride in their craftsmanship, and thinks systematically about creating a cohesive end-to-end experience. We’re seeking someone with past experience building large-scale products, using and customizing a design system, and managing the complexity of a data-rich tool with multiple permission levels that still needs to feel intuitive, simple, and modern.

What You'll Do

• Create meaningful user experiences: You'll collaborate closely with a human-centered designer/ux researcher to support them as they conduct user research and create user flows. You’ll translate this into wireframes and prototypes, and together, validate solutions with real users.
• Design complex interfaces: You'll design high fidelity interfaces in Figma. These will translate complex geospatial and scientific data into intuitive, high-fidelity interfaces that are both functional and visually appealing.
• Collaborate across teams: You'll work closely with engineers, product managers, and fellow designers to ensure the seamless implementation of design solutions.
• Advocate for the user: You'll work closely with the UX researcher, championing usability and accessibility, ensuring our products are easy to use for everyone.
• Support strong design standards: Define, evolve, and maintain a design system for the client.
• Write front end code: Contribute to the build of the system with front end code.
• Be a thoughtful collaborator: Contribute to a culture of positivity, curiosity, and respect for all individuals; work to understand client needs empathetically and proactively identify solutions
• Act as the lead on the project for Design and Front end: You aren’t just a contributor, you are the point person responsible the design and front end quality for the project and may oversee subcontractors or other teammates delivery of work
  
  

This is a full-time, salaried position. Please submit your information, resume and cover letter if you are interested. Remote candidates are considered if located in VA, DC, MD, PA, UT, NJ, TX, MN, FL, NH, OR, OH, IN, AZ, CO, KS, MI, MT, SD, VT, CA, or IL (excluding Chicago).

Qualifications

Here are the guidelines we're looking at to gauge experience and skillset:

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in design and front end roles
• 3+ years of experience in leadership roles on teams building complex products
• Experience with modern tooling
• Experience applying accessibility standards
• Semantic HTML, CSS, Javascript, and/or React expertise.
• Strong grasp of visual design fundamentals.
• Substantial understanding of modern UX principles and responsive, accessible web app design patterns.
• Proficiency in modern design software, particularly Figma.
• Ability to build and work with design systems and component libraries.
• Portfolio that clearly showcases your abilities and experiences.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work within a team environment.
• Comfort digesting complex logic and requirements
• Familiarity with agile methodologies
• This position requires that applicants be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or at any time in the future, and be able to pass a general background check.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience designing supply chain or regulatory software
• Experience designing for internationalization
  
  

About Element 84

Element 84 is a woman-owned small business that works with public, private, and non-profit sector clients to develop geospatial data processing pipelines & build software that helps answer big questions about our health, our infrastructure, and our changing planet. We solve challenging problems across a wide range of industries, but our super power is cloud-based geospatial data processing, remote sensing, and Earth science systems. Our headquarters is located in Alexandria, VA and we have a satellite office in Philadelphia, PA. Element 84 also supports a large remote workforce from a variety of other states.

A Few Other Things You Should Know

• Element 84's values are: We Invest in Each Other, We are Reliable, and Our Work Benefits our World.
• Element 84 works on meaningful projects that are challenging—from a technical, people, and team perspective. We make an impact on large projects through our leadership and expertise, both formal and informal.
• Element 84 values life outside of work. We offer parental leave for everyone and support each other through family challenges like medical problems, adoptions, and new babies.
• Element 84 has had a flexible work schedule since our founding in 2010.
• Element 84 is committed to fostering a culture of curiosity and respect for all individuals as we constantly strive to create a work environment where everyone feels welcome and supported.
  
  

About You

You are curious about the world, are constantly learning, driven to lead (formally or informally), and have a strong work ethic. You're interested in solving impactful problems in science, medicine, and other projects that have a societal good. You can work independently or with a team, prioritize your projects, and be effective without micromanagement.

You'll care about writing. Our team is remote and written communication is essential. In addition to caring about a well-crafted email and a succinct conference abstract, you understand that good writing is good design and engineering.

Benefits

Additional Information

Paying attention to who we are as a company–people, family members, friends, and colleagues–is our primary focus at Element 84. There are lots of ways to run a company, and, for us, we prioritize wanting to come to work, being around people we enjoy, taking on big things with people you trust, and sharing our achievements as a team.

• You’ll get credit when things go right and we’ll have your back when things go wrong.
• We only take on work that is challenging and right for us. There are projects we will turn down and the team has a say.
• We may be a small company, but we have big company benefits meant to support the idea that we're here for the long term and happiness comes from much more than where you work.
• We have an extraordinary retention rate because we hire extraordinary people. We hope that’s you.
  
  

The salary range for this position is $120,000 to $150,000.

Actual compensation offered to candidate will be finalized at offer and may be above or below the posted range due to skill level, experience, industry-specific knowledge, education/certifications, or geographic location. Base salary represents just one component of the Element 84 total compensation package. Employees will also receive a number of benefits as listed below. Other compensation for this position may include bonus eligibility (dependent on employee performance and company profits).

This is a full time, salaried position. Please submit your portfolio, resume and cover letter if you are interested. Remote candidates are considered if located in VA, DC, MD, PA, UT, NJ, TX, MN, FL, NH, OR, OH, IN, AZ, CO, KS, MI, MT, SD, VT, CA, or IL (excluding Chicago).

Benefits Offered

• Competitive medical, dental and vision benefits
• Life Insurance, Short & Long Term disability insurance
• Voluntary Accident, Critical Illness & Hospital Insurance
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plans with a fixed 3% of salary employer contributions (paid regardless of employee participation)
• Health savings account with a company contribution
• Flexible spending accounts (medical, dependent care and transportation)
• Company-paid parental leave after one year of employment
• Flexible work schedules
• Paid employee assistance program
• 9 paid holidays
• 4 weeks + 1 day Paid Time Off per calendar year (prorated first year)
• Cell phone stipend
  
  

Element 84 is an equal opportunity employer.