Senior UI/UX Designer

• Requires a bachelor's degree and 8+ years experience or a master's degree and 6+ years of experience (five years of experience can be substituted for a bachelor's degree)
• Demonstrated professional experience conducting user research, including user interviews, surveys, usability testing, and user feedback analysis.
• Experience developing wireframes and prototypes using tools such as Figma, Axure, or similar platforms.
• Strong understanding of human-centered design, user-centered design, and design-thinking principles.
• Experience applying design systems and style guides to create consistent, intuitive digital experiences.
• Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative research findings into actionable design recommendations.
• Experience communicating design requirements and research findings to software development teams.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, and facilitation skills, with the ability to tailor communications to technical, non-technical, and executive audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams and diverse stakeholders.
• Strong empathy, intellectual curiosity, and flexibility when approaching complex user and organizational challenges.
• Ability to operate effectively in a complex, mission-focused environment.
• Experience with Dovetail or similar user research and research repository platforms.
• Experience analyzing usability testing results and user feedback to drive iterative product improvements.
• Experience introducing new UX research methods, tools, or practices within an organization.
• Experience facilitating design workshops, collaborative research sessions, or participatory design activities.
• Familiarity with emerging UX research technologies and methodologies.

If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo - because the mission demands it. We're not hiring followers. We're recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We're already at step 30 - and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

August 7, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.