Junior Human-Centered Design Support Specialist supporting AirForce CyberWorx, an innovation lab improving cyber products, processes, and policies using human-centered design. You’ll help gather and act on feedback, build prototypes, and support day-to-day project communications and logistics in an onsite Colorado Springs role. Standout requirement/perk: must already hold an active SECRET DoD clearance and the role pays $58.36/hour.
- Work in AirForce CyberWorx innovation lab
- Build prototypes across fidelity levels
- Support cyber-focused HCD projects
AirForce CyberWorx is an innovation lab focused on optimizing products, processes, and policies using Human-Centered Design best practices focused on cyber capability-melding academic and industry expertise to solve operational problems.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
We are seeking a Junior Human-Centered Design Support Specialist to assist with various aspects of human-centered design projects. This role will involve collecting and acting on feedback, creating prototypes, supporting daily team activities, and contributing to project communications. The ideal candidate will have a foundational understanding of human-centered design principles and a willingness to learn and grow in a dynamic environment.
REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors Engineering, Behavioral Science, Systems Engineering, or a related field.
• Professional Experience: At least three years of relevant experience working as a human-centered designer.
• Core Expertise: Basic understanding of human-centered design and/or design thinking with the ability to contribute insights into business processes and solutions.
• Specializations: Basic strengths in at least two of the following areas: user experience research, analysis, and interaction; product design support; futures thinking; facilitation skills.
• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must currently possess a SECRET (minimum) level DoD clearance.
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ABILITIES:
Feedback Management:
• Collect, reflect on, and act upon feedback from stakeholder interactions, design validation sessions, and playbacks.
Prototyping and Design:
• Create and manipulate design and visualization concepts that can be quickly turned into prototypes for concept evaluation.
• Develop low, medium, and high-fidelity interactive wireframes and prototypes using tools such as Photoshop®, Marvel App®, Framer®, InVisionApp®, Proto.io®, Balsamiq®, Miro, or similar.
Team Collaboration:
• Collaborate, consult, advise, and assist peers to support daily activities and contribute to team projects.
• Maintain accumulated material and information in an editable format available to AF CyberWorx personnel. Ensure all content (collateral, documents, images, etc.) is managed as Government property.
Project Support:
• Contribute to project-level communications, logistics, and other tasks as needed, including preparing design session facilitation supplies, making copies, updating documents such as participant spreadsheets, and assisting in post-event clean-up.
• Some experience in designing IT products and user interfaces or participating in futures-centered design sessions.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and a DEVOPS mindset.
• Basic proficiency in hand sketching, prototyping, and low-fidelity modeling.
• Familiarity with design and prototyping tools such as Adobe CS, Axure, Sketch, FramerJS, Miro, and a willingness to learn new tools.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
ADDITIONAL QUALIFYING FACTORS:
Must have a satisfactory background screening, negative drug test, positive references and proof of identity and legal authorization to work in the United States and for TFS are required.
As an equal opportunity employer, The Tatitlek Corporation recognizes that our strength lies in our people. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment, in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment. We support and obey laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business.
Salary
$58.36/hourly