UI / UX Lead Developer

UI / UX Lead Developer

At Two Six Technologies, we build, deploy, and implement innovative products that solve the world's most complex challenges today. Through unrivaled collaboration and unwavering trust, we push the boundaries of what's possible to empower our team and support our customers in building a safer global future. As a UI / UX Lead Developer, you'll be instrumental in shaping the user experience and interface of our mission-critical system solution. You'll lead the charge in creating intuitive, engaging, and effective UIs that directly support the complex needs of our analysts and operators. Leveraging your expertise in JavaScript frameworks (Angular, React, TypeScript), UI / UX design principles, and user-centered development, you'll guide a small team and contribute directly to exceptional user experiences.

This role demands a leader who can translate intricate user needs and evolving requirements into innovative UI / UX solutions, helping to define the future of our intelligence community tool.

What You Will Do :

Leadership & Collaboration :

• Lead the UI Team : You'll directly lead our small talented UI team, providing technical guidance, mentorship, and fostering a collaborative environment. Your leadership will help build designs that prioritize user engagement and satisfaction. You will also act as the lead for user engagement.
• Stakeholder Engagement : Meet regularly with program leadership and management to discuss project status, roadmaps, and strategic UI / UX initiatives, ensuring a unified vision for user engagement across the product.
• Cross-functional Partnership : Work closely with the Data and Analytics SME, Solution Architect, and Product Manager to define and refine features, ensuring UI / UX aligns with data capabilities and architectural vision, all with an eye toward improving the user journey.
• Requirements Definition : Collaborate directly with Product to help define and refine requirements for UI features, translating high-level concepts into actionable design and development tasks that enhance user interaction.
• Deep User Collaboration & Engagement : Proactively engage directly with users to understand their workflows, pain points, and preferences. You'll gather feedback to continuously refine designs and validate solutions, ensuring the UI is meeting the mission needs efficiently and effectively.
• Jira Management : Assist with the creation and ongoing management of Jira content, workflows, and boards to streamline UI / UX team tasks and project tracking, ensuring user-centric tasks are prioritized.

Design & Prototyping :

Development & Refinement :

What You Will Need :

Nice to haves (preferred) :

Security Clearance :

Two Six Technologies is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive compensation packages that reflect the value we place on our employees and their contributions. We believe in rewarding skills, experience, and performance. Our offerings include but are not limited to, medical, dental, and vision insurance, life and disability insurance, retirement benefits, paid leave, tuition assistance and professional development. The projected salary range listed for this position is annualized. This is a general guideline and not a guarantee of salary. Salary is one component of our total compensation package and the specific salary offered is determined by various factors, including, but not limited to education, experience, knowledge, skills, geographic location, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements. Salary Range $180,000 - $230,000 USD