UX/UI Designer

Position Overview

Location: US - Pittsburgh, PA • Job Level: Staff
Field: User Experience Designer, User Interface Designer • Job Functions: User Interface, Interaction Design, Experience Design, Graphic Design

Daedalus is seeking a dedicated UX/UI designer to work closely with clients and cross‐disciplinary teams including researchers, human factors specialists, UX, UI, visual, and industrial designers as well as software, mechanical, and electrical engineers. You will help develop a compelling UX vision through storyboards, process flows, sitemaps, and wireframes, while supporting user research and testing to ensure successful design solutions. If you are interested, please submit your cover letter, resume, and work samples.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate closely with clients and internal teams including researchers, designers, and engineers.
• Assist clients in developing their UX vision and requirements.
• Convey compelling design solutions through storyboards, process flows, and sitemaps.
• Deliver successful UI concepts via wireframes and polished screen mock-ups.
• Partner with researchers to conduct user observations and interviews to refine usability.
• Collaborate with additional design team members to produce production-ready assets.

Required Qualifications

• Experience designing exceptional user experiences for desktop, mobile, embedded, or kiosk software.
• Deep understanding of interactive design concepts and their practical application.
• Strong grasp of layout, typography, and iconography and their impact on usability.
• Proven aptitude for creating UX/UI mockups that illustrate software functionality from a user's perspective.
• Expert proficiency using Adobe Illustrator, Sketch, or a similar current design platform.
• Ability to articulate interactive concepts using tools such as Invision, Proto.io, Adobe apps, Keynote, and/or HTML/JS/CSS.
• Experience managing projects from initial design through engineering support, including specifications and asset production.
• Capacity to manage multiple simultaneous projects in varied domains.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Commitment to achieving outstanding results on schedule and within budget.
• Demonstrated ability to receive, integrate, and act on feedback from colleagues and clients.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with qualitative research methods such as contextual inquiry, ethnographic observation, and interviews.
• Familiarity with quantitative research methods.
• Ability to transform research insights into clearly communicated design requirements for both clients and internal stakeholders.