User Experience Designer
Sparks Group
McLean, VA
User Experience Designer Job Summary:
Sparks Group is working with a globally recognized design and innovation firm to identify a talented User Experience Designer. This position requires onsite work in McLean, VA. We are seeking a design-driven thinker and collaborative leader who thrives on solving complex challenges and delivering intuitive, elegant, and engaging user experiences.
In this role, you will evaluate user behaviors, needs, and workflows to design seamless and effective experiences. You’ll apply advanced principles of user interface and interaction design while leading efforts around persona development, journey mapping, task analysis, and information architecture. Additionally, you will oversee user research and usability testing initiatives—ensuring insights are translated into impactful ideas and practical design solutions.
User Experience Designer Responsibilities:
- Partner with cross-functional teams to shape a forward-looking, experience-driven vision and define the capabilities needed to support it.
- Evaluate potential impact and help build supporting business cases.
- Perform analysis to uncover opportunities through stakeholder engagement and mapping of customer touchpoints.
- Drive customer-focused strategy initiatives and contribute to presentations and proposals.
- Maintain alignment between design efforts and overarching business objectives throughout service design and roadmap development.
- Translate user insights into clear, compelling service concepts and strategic recommendations.
- Support go-to-market planning to ensure experiences deliver maximum business and user value.
User Experience Designer Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance is required.
- 5–8+ years of experience delivering user interface and experience design solutions across diverse stakeholders or clients.
- Bachelor’s degree preferred.
- Strong proficiency in design tools such as Adobe Creative Suite, with a focus on Figma and similar platforms.
- Extensive experience conducting user research and facilitating usability testing.
- Proven ability to work within Agile environments and iterative product development cycles.
- Experience managing or guiding small to mid-sized design teams (approximately 3–7+ members).
- Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to lead discussions for groups ranging from small teams to larger audiences.
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This job is In-Person.
We offer several comprehensive benefits package including health and life insurance, paid and unpaid time off, and retirement and savings plans to qualifying employees.
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Sparks Group is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, pregnancy, citizenship, family status, genetic information, disability, or protect veteran status.
About the Company
Sparks Group
Bringing the Best People and the Best Companies Together Since 1970.
Sparks Group (formerly SPARKS, Sparks IT Solutions, and Sparks Personnel) is the Washington DC Area's leading temporary staffing and full-time recruiting services provider. Whether you are seeking your next opportunity or looking to add talent, Sparks Group is the ideal partner for you! Each of our four divisions (Sparks Office, Sparks Accounting & Finance, Sparks IT, and Sparks Creative) specializes in placing professionals in temporary/contract, temporary-to-full-time, and full-time roles across a diverse array of staffing categories, positions and levels including: office/administrative, customer service, human resources and talent acquisition, legal support, government and cleared personnel, mortgage/banking, accounting and finance, contracts and procurement, information technology and creative/marketing.
Sparks Group brings over four decades of experience placing professionals in challenging and rewarding positions at many of the area’s most prestigious organizations. Our primary focus is presenting opportunities that match each candidate’s skill-sets, experience levels, career objectives, and growth needs. Sparks Group has regularly ranked as one of the top US staffing and recruiting firms having been named to Inavero’s Best of Staffing Lists® for Client and Employee Satisfaction (2012-2017). Additionally, Sparks Group is proud to have been recently selected for other awards Staffing Industry Analysts’ 2017 Best Staffing Firms to Work For, Washington Business Journal Best Places to Work (2017), the Washington Post’s Top Workplaces® List (2017, 2014), Forbes® Best Professional Recruiting Firms (2017), and the National Capital Business Ethics Award.