Senior Digital UX Designer Job at MAXIMUS in Wilmington

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Facilitate the product vision by researching, conceiving, sketching, prototyping, and user-testing experiences for digital products.

- Create wireframes, high fidelity comps, clickable prototypes, and style guides to be handed off to developers.

- Work closely with the development team and help guide software engineers.

- Design prototypes while closely adhering to style guides.

- Discover user needs, collect feedback, and present findings to stakeholders.

- Collaborate with product managers and other designers to define, prioritize, and solve problems

- Conduct usability and user tests.

- Make strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions, and features.

- Oversees moderately complex specific projects and processes.

- May coach and review the work of lower level professionals.

- Leads UX/UI design activities supporting modern web applications, including wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, and detailed UI specifications.
- Translates UX designs into implementation-ready assets for React-based user interfaces, defining component behaviors, states, and interaction patterns.
- Partners with frontend engineers to validate UI feasibility, ensure accurate design implementation, and support iterative refinement during development.
- Conducts UX research, including usability testing, user interviews, heuristic reviews, and workflow assessments, to inform design decisions.
- Performs analysis of legacy application workflows and interfaces, recommending and implementing incremental UX improvements within technical constraints.
- Develops and maintains design system elements, style guides, and reusable UI patterns that support consistency across digital products.
- Synthesizes qualitative and quantitative user insights into clear findings, presenting results and recommendations to stakeholders.
- Collaborates with product managers, engineering teams, and business partners to clarify requirements, define user problems, and prioritize design solutions.
- Supports Agile ceremonies and cross-functional planning activities, providing design input throughout the product lifecycle.
Provides mentorship and design guidance to junior team members as needed.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in Design, Computer Science, Anthropology, Human-Computer Interaction, or Informatics.

- 5-7 years of relevant professional experience required.

Job-Specific Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in UX Design, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Graphic Design, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
- 5+ years of UX/UI design experience supporting digital products or web applications.
- Demonstrated experience designing interfaces that integrate with React UI component libraries or other component-based frontend frameworks.
- Proficiency in industry design tools such as Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, or similar platforms.
- 3+ years of experience conducting usability tests, user research, or experience analysis activities.
- 3+ years of experience creating wireframes, prototypes, and detailed design specifications for development teams.
- Demonstrated ability to modernize or enhance legacy application workflows through incremental UX improvements.
- Strong understanding of responsive design principles, accessibility standards (e.g., WCAG), and user-centered design methodologies.
- Experience collaborating within Agile environments and participating in cross-functional product development activities.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to convey design rationale to technical and non-technical audiences.


Preferred Skills and Qualifications:
- Experience working directly with React teams or contributing to React component library documentation.
- Familiarity with HTML/CSS structures and how design decisions affect front-end implementation (no coding required).
- Experience contributing to or managing design systems, pattern libraries, or UI documentation frameworks.
- Background modernizing enterprise or mission-critical legacy applications.
- Experience with analytics tools (e.g., Hotjar, GA, FullStory) to inform UX decision-making.
- Knowledge of accessibility compliance workflows and inclusive design standards.
- Experience mentoring junior designers or reviewing design deliverables for quality and consistency.


EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

Pay Transparency

Maximus compensation is based on various factors including but not limited to job location, a candidate's education, training, experience, expected quality and quantity of work, required travel (if any), external market and internal value analysis including seniority and merit systems, as well as internal pay alignment. Annual salary is just one component of Maximus's total compensation package. Other rewards may include short- and long-term incentives as well as program-specific awards. Additionally, Maximus provides a variety of benefits to employees, including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, a retirement savings plan, paid holidays and paid time off. Compensation ranges may differ based on contract value but will be commensurate with job duties and relevant work experience. An applicant's salary history will not be used in determining compensation. Maximus will comply with regulatory minimum wage rates and exempt salary thresholds in all instances.

Accommodations
Maximus provides reasonable accommodations to individuals requiring assistance during any phase of the employment process due to a disability, medical condition, or physical or mental impairment. If you require assistance at any stage of the employment process-including accessing job postings, completing assessments, or participating in interviews,-please contact People Operations at applicantaccom@maximus.com.

Minimum Salary

$

85,000.00

Maximum Salary

$

121,000.00