Senior Product Designer with Security Clearance

Overview Based in Northern Virginia, Aveshka has opportunities for you to become part of our high-quality team that delivers innovative solutions to key federal clients.

We are currently seeking Product Designers to h elp customers design and deliver their most important applications leveraging the VMWare Tanzu (Pivotal) Platform.

About You You have strong product design instincts, and an appreciation for and understanding of lean startup, agile and user-centered design values, principles, and practices.

You are excited by the mission and organizational value that technology can unlock.

You thrive in a complex ecosystem, collecting, sharing, and synthesizing input from many directions and enabling your organization to continuously deliver customer value.

You love building effective teams and driving excellence in practice.

You are inspired by the opportunity to help customers and partners modernize their in-house software development capabilities.

You bring humility, empathy, and a learning mindset to everything you do.

You believe in doing the right thing and doing what works.

What You will Be Doing You will be helping US Government and SLED (State/Local/Educational) product teams to design and deliver modern, mission-critical, cloud-native applications serving a variety of business and user needs.

As a Product Designer you will be coaching government product designers in user-centered design and lean UX methodologies and approaches and working with leaders of growing software practices on organizational scaling, metrics, and developing a healthy, sustainable design practice.

All of our product team positions are highly collaborative consulting roles, with 85-90% of time spent in direct, 1:1 pairing or larger team collaboration.

During the COVID-19 crisis, this collaboration (including user interviews and usability tests) is all managed remotely, with the expectation that face-to-face engagement on site with the client will pick up again once the crisis is resolved.

Responsibilities * Helping leaders on the client side to innovate and iterate on lean/agile design tools and techniques and build a healthy design practice * Leading product design from research through implementation * Working with the team to discover customer problems and create valuable, desirable, and feasible solutions * Maintain a user-centered approach while respecting business needs * Bringing clarity where there is uncertainty and identifying and managing risk * Teaching your client pair how to do all of these things for themselves Qualifications Required Education: * BA/BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience Required Qualifications: * 3-8+ years Software Product Design or similar experience, shipping products to users (enterprise or large-scale consumer products preferred) * You are highly competent in all areas of Product Design, from user research, experience, interaction, and visual design.

* Experience building a lean/agile design team * Able to break down complex problems into actionable steps with measurable outcomes * Interest and ability to teach others * Ability to facilitate collaborative design activities in a workshop context * Experience closely collaborating with engineers and product managers as part of small co-located teams * Experience working independently with clients or stakeholders in a consulting role * Familiarity with modern design tools such as Figma or Sketch * US Citizenship Preferred Qualifications: * None Travel Requirements: About Aveshka: Aveshka is a professional services firm focused on addressing our nation’s most complex threats and challenges.

As a small business we’re committed to supporting our clients’ missions with services delivered by our diverse and experienced staff.

With expertise in cybersecurity, emergency preparedness, and public health, our experience base spans federal, state, and local governments, as well as private sector entities.

Aveshka encourages collaborative communication and ongoing learning.

Some of our benefits include: * Extensive training programs * Gym membership reimbursement * Education reimbursement * Technology benefits * Commuter benefits * Generous paid time off and much more!

Aveshka is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE)