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Graphic Designer -54008563393529110403120

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Graphic Designer -540085

Washington, DC, USA

INR is a strategic, all-source analytic agency in the U.S. IC. INR analysts provide daily intelligence support, warning, and analysis on national security issues that are priorities for the Department of State in support of U.S. foreign policy and diplomatic operations. INR analysts provide daily intelligence support to policy makers throughout the Department via in-depth written analyses and oral briefings. INR is a key contributor to all IC production under the auspices of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, including National Intelligence Council products and the President’s Daily Brief. INR is the IC leader on foreign public opinion research and analysis. INR is also responsible for analysis on land and maritime international boundaries and sovereignty issues, mapping, and geographic information systems. INR also serves as the focal point for IC analytic outreach to non-governmental experts to explore alternative perspectives and generate new knowledge. Editorial review, publications operations, and web services conducted by the INR’s Office of Analytic Integration (INR/INT) play a critical role in effective and efficient support to policy clients. Among other responsibilities, INR/INT ensures the timely editing, processing, production, and dissemination of hundreds of intelligence products a year. INR/INT oversees INR tradecraft programs and compliance with IC analytic tradecraft development, upholds bureau analytic standards, and coordinates INR intelligence integration activities in the IC. INR/INT also houses the Bureau’s Executive Support team, the International Partnerships Unit, and the Open-Source Coordination Unit. The contractor shall provide the appropriate skilled personnel to perform editorial review, publications operations, and web services in support of INR analytic production. The contractor requires expertise and experience in the following knowledge, skills, and abilities: advanced skill in editing, analysis, and evaluation of written information; use of classified and unclassified data to produce analysis; experience with Microsoft Word and familiarity with web publishing tools; ability to access and identify data from diverse sources; knowledge of information dissemination tools and processes; ability to communicate in writing and orally; ability to create graphics, charts, and other visualizations for written intelligence product; ability to convert ideas into clear visualizations; ability to work well with others; and knowledge of the realm of foreign policy/international affairs. The contractor shall also provide the appropriate skilled personnel to perform a wide range of graphic design and visualization services related to editorial content. The contractor requires expertise and experience in the following knowledge, skills, and abilities: ability to design for individual projects appropriate print and screen formats to present effectively and attractively given text and images; ability to add interactive elements into a .pdf file; proven expertise utilizing Adobe Creative Suite software, versions CS5-6 and subsequent editions, Flash, and Adobe Creative Cloud applications; ability to work closely and collaboratively with editorial staff; and ability to think critically and creatively. Consults with analysts to convert ideas into clear visualizations based on editorial content. Reviews analytic intelligence products to ensure that all graphics, maps, and pictures appropriately exhibit information within the intelligence document. Assists, as necessary, in providing imaging for INR’s daily analytic product for the Secretary of State. Assists in providing clear visualizations, as necessary, to INR’s websites to ensure graphics correlate to the Bureau’s most recent and relevant work. Requirements Two (2) years working in data visualization and visual storytelling. (Can trade out some years for education qualifications). Bachelor’s Degree required in relevant field. Experience working with, analyzing, and interpreting data to inform and design data visualizations. Attention to detail and ability to track progress on multiple concurrent projects. Excellent critical thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills. Superlative communication skills, written and oral. Excellent interpersonal skills, with experience building productive relationships across teams. Excellent facility with the complete Microsoft Office suite (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, SharePoint) Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator, or similar vector graphics program (i.e. GIMP, Inkscape) Must have an active Top-Secret clearance with SCI eligibility Additional qualifications Familiarity with other Adobe Creative Cloud applications including Photoshop Knowledge and understanding of Web design and graphic tools. Desire to learn about and work with other software and database applications.

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UX/ UI Developer

Washington, DC, USA

Program Description: As procurement technology continues to evolve, the Agency seeks to advance its procurement capabilities by maintaining robust, scalable, and up-to-date systems that enhance operational efficiency, streamline workflows, and improve overall productivity. To this end, the agency requires a strategic partner that can provide ongoing support for existing systems, integrate innovative technology solutions, and deliver comprehensive program management to oversee these efforts amidst a rapidly changing technological landscape. Position Description: We are looking for a skilled UI/UX Developer, or User Interface/User Experience Developer, to combine creative design principles with front-end development skills to create intuitive, aesthetically appealing, and user-friendly digital products like websites and applications. They bridge the gap between design and functionality, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable user experience Requirements Responsibilities: Designing, testing, and developing well designed web-based software coding that is testable, and efficient by using best software development practices to meet user’s needs Recommending software upgrades for current and future systems; as well as translating the User Interface (UI)/User Experience (UX) design wireframes, ensuring software continues to function normally through software maintenance and testing; and documenting every aspect of the application, service or environment as a reference for future maintenance and upgrades. Required Skills: Years of Experience: 5 years of relevant technical experience. Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in relevant field; Additional experience can be used in lieu of degree Clearance Requirement: Active Top Secret Proficiency in the following technologies: React, Spring Boot, Postgres, Aha!, Project Online, InVision, Sketch, Jira, Confluence, IJ, Visual Studio Code, Eclipse, PyCharm, Notepad, Swagger, SonarQube, JaCoCO, Selenium, Cucumber, JMeter, Mocha, PyTest, CHEF, Locust, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Terraform, Gitlab Runner, Jenkins, AWS CodePipeline, NPM, Yarn, AWS CodeBuild, AWS OpsWorks, AWS CloudFormation, AWS CodeDeploy, Splunk, Amazon Cloudwatch, AppDynamics, Amazon Kinesis Analytics, Power BI, Matomo, Mouseflow, Nginix, Ansible, Docker, jFrog Artifactory, and jFrog Xray Soft Skills: · Organizational Skills: Can plan and prioritize work. Follows tasks to their logical conclusion and makes sure that everything has been done to the right standard. Good attention to detail. · Team Work: Able to enthuse and maintain project interest. Comfortable working both individually and as part of a team. Prepared to challenge ideas within a group in a constructive way. · Leadership: Acute business acumen and understanding of organizational issues and challenges. Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization. · Communications: Ability to communicate clearly and efficiently to team members and clients, verbally and in writing. Able to present ideas in a variety of ways depending upon audience and context. Excellent active listening skills. · Quantitative Management: Ability to determine process measures and track to determine process effectiveness and efficiency. · Problem Solving: Natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics. Ability to analyze problems and determine root cause, generating alternatives, evaluating and selecting alternatives and implementing solutions. · Results oriented: Able to drive things forward regardless of personal interest in the task.

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Digital Designer

Washington, DC, USA

At Interactive Strategies, we collaborate with mission-driven organizations like the American Lung Association, American Kidney Fund, Rainforest Trust, and Special Olympics—to design digital experiences that spark action and make a difference. These aren’t just projects; they’re opportunities to amplify voices, share powerful stories, and create real-world impact. As a Digital Designer, you’ll play a hands-on role in shaping how these causes connect with their audiences. Whether you’re crafting bold social media campaigns, designing sleek and accessible websites, or producing motion graphics that bring a message to life, your work will help organizations stand out and inspire change. You’ll be part of a thoughtful, collaborative team that values great design and great causes just as much. What You'll Do Social Media Design: Craft bold, on-brand visuals for social campaigns, paid ads, and social-first storytelling. Your designs will drive engagement and boost visibility for meaningful causes. Email Design: Develop eye-catching email templates and campaign assets that don't just look good, but also drive clicks and conversions. You'll help push the boundaries of what's possible in email design. Web & Branding Projects: Design websites, landing pages, and visual identities that reflect our clients' missions—always with aesthetics, usability, and responsiveness in mind. Animation & Video Content: Create dynamic motion graphics and video content that enhance client messaging and help clients stand out in a crowded digital landscape. Collaboration: Partner with senior designers, strategists, project managers, and clients to ensure creative outputs are aligned, impactful, and polished. You’ll be a key contributor across concepting, execution, and refinement. Creative Problem-Solving: Tackle design challenges with a strategic mindset—balancing visual appeal, clarity, accessibility, and purpose in every solution. What We’re Looking For 3–5 years of professional experience in digital design (agency or nonprofit experience a plus) A portfolio that showcases your work across social, web, branding, illustration, and motion/video content Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Figma, and motion tools like After Effects or Premiere Pro A sharp eye for typography, color, composition, and design systems Detail-oriented, organized, and confident managing multiple projects in a fast-paced environment A growth mindset—open to feedback, iteration, and continuous improvement A collaborative spirit and a passion for work that makes a difference A feeling that creativity is not just your career, it is a big part of what defines you. Are you also an illustrator? a photographer? a writer? These things matter and we want to hear about them Benefits We have a simple motto when it comes to company culture, "Everyone deserves to come to work and be happy." This means a few things: (1) we care as much about quality as we do about budgets, (2) we find the strengths in each employee and nurture them, (3) we encourage a culture that values innovation and creative freedom, and (4) we want you to have fun while you’re at the office. We allow our employees creative freedom. We treat them with respect. We value their opinions. In that spirit, we offer the following benefits: Company-sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance Pre-tax Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Profit sharing 4 weeks of PTO to start; 5+ weeks after year 3 Company-paid short- and long-term disability Company-paid life and AD&D insurance 11 paid holidays 401k with company match New business referral bonus Professional development opportunities Flexible work schedule Pre-tax DC Metro SmartBenefits Salary Range: $70,000 - $87,550 Interactive Strategies is a certified LGBTBE business and equal opportunity employer that values workplace diversity. We believe that diverse voices and viewpoints are critical to producing great work and helping our clients represent themselves effectively.

$70,000-87,550/year

UI/UX Designer - US Citizen Required63392041667203123

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UI/UX Designer - US Citizen Required

Ashburn, VA, USA

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. !!! Long-Term Government Contract for Leading Edge Technologies !!! As a UI/UX Designer, you will offer your agile methodology experience as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team will be key to the overall success. Requirements Must be a U.S. Citizen with the ability to pass CBP background investigation, criteria include but is not limited to: 3 year check for felony convictions 1 year check for illegal drug use 1 year check for misconduct such as theft or fraud Degree in a related field, such as Interactive Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Graphic Design or Human Factors Experience working collaboratively to communicate effectively through websites and web applications that are easy for real people to use and responsive across all device viewports Professional Experience: 3 + years’ experience as a visual designer, interaction designer, experience designer or a similar role Professional experience with enterprise UI design tools such as Figma (preferred), Axure, or similar tools Professional experience communicating designs with stakeholders such as product owners, end users, development teams, and management Ability to understand trade-offs between designs, technical feasibility, and maintenance Knowledge of modern front-end systems and open source frameworks (Angular) In this role you will: Serve as an Agile Scrum team member providing UI/UX design and development for the delivery of releasable software in short sprint cycles. Responsible for activities associated with software projects by working in close collaboration with business analysts, software developers/engineers, stakeholders, and end users within Agile processes. Conceptualize and designing custom software application capabilities for a variety of legacy and modernized systems with limited oversight. Lead the design of a cohesive look-and-feel and standardized user experience across the applications. Take a leadership role in collaborations between the creative strategy, UX, visual design, development team, and client to create effective design strategies. Develop compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives Collaborate with cross discipline team to create and execute experience style guides, interaction patterns, and information design standards Develop wireframes, mockups, and/or prototypes supporting design ideas and effectively communicate ideas to various stakeholders. Establish standard layout and style libraries across applications. Work closely the functional team to determine feasibility of requirements and collaborate on design ideas and improvements. Ensure product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports Provide mentoring to junior members of the team Benefits 401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Flexible schedule Flexible spending account Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Referral program Retirement plan Tuition reimbursement Vision insurance

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UI/UX Developer

Ashburn, VA, USA

Ready to Ignite your career and work alongside some of the most innovative and brightest professionals in innovative technology? Join us and unleash your potential working in an Agile environment while modernizing enterprise systems and applications needed to support the men and women charged with safeguarding the American people and enhancing the Nation’s safety, security, and prosperity. !!! Long-Term Government Contract for Leading Edge Technologies !!! As a UI/UX developer of an Agile team you will be responsible for creating intuitive, user-centered designs and developing responsive, interactive user interfaces that are maintainable, efficient and reliable as part of a dynamic and passionate team of industry-leading individuals supporting the best practices in Agile Software Development for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). You will bring creative ideas to solve complex problems, both technical and procedural at the team and portfolio levels. The ability to be adaptable and to work constructively with a technically diverse and geographically separated team will be key to the overall success. Requirements Experience working collaboratively to communicate effectively through websites and web applications that are easy for real people to use and responsive across all device viewports 5 + years’ experience in UI/UX development Professional experience with enterprise UI design tools such as Figma (preferred), or similar tools Professional experience communicating designs with stakeholders such as product owners, end users, development teams, and management Ability to understand trade-offs between designs, technical feasibility, and maintenance Proficiency in development and maintenance of web applications using React, Angular, JavaScript, browser technologies such as HTML, HTTP and CSS and JavaScript framework such as Kendo UI. Familiarity with Java and associated frameworks such as Spring/Spring boot Familiarity with our tech stack: Java 17, Spring/Spring boot, React, UI state management, ORM such as Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Amazon AWS Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment tools such as Harness, Jenkins, GitLab or Bamboo Stay current on important industry and customer trends to ensure our applications are delivering relevant solutions Collaborate effectively with stakeholders inside the company and with customer groups to drive effective solutions Use data, validation, and feedback strategies that deliver code backed by qualitative and quantities testing Experience with responsive and mobile-first development Willing to take risks and champion new ideas. Have experience developing applications, from consumer facing to internal tools Maintain a user-centered approach while respecting business needs Able to work and be effective in an agile design environment Working knowledge of and ability to assist others in the use of design tools to support process improvement (Figma, Axure, Sketch, Invision, XD, etc) Excellent written and verbal communication skills Highly responsible, team-oriented individual with very strong work ethics and a self-starter Preferred: Design Thinking certifications such as those offered through IDEO, Stanford, Cornell, MIT or a host of other organizations Preferred: Proven experience designing for web accessibility (Section 508 standards) Preferred: Experience with information architecture Preferred: Ability and interest in educating others on user-centered design best practices Preferred: Advanced understanding of Lean processes, and Agile principles In this role you will: Use Agile development methodologies and ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, including developers, product owners, and stakeholders Develop user interfaces that meet business requirements and user needs Lead the development of a cohesive look-and-feel and standardized user experience across applications Develop compelling, creative, and user-focused experiences and points of view that align with clients’ business objectives Collaborate with cross discipline team to create and execute experience style guides, interaction patterns, and information design standards Develop wireframes, mockups, and/or prototypes supporting design ideas and effectively communicate ideas to various stakeholders Establish standard layout and style libraries across applications Work closely with the functional team to determine feasibility of requirements and collaborate on design ideas and improvements. Ensure product quality and timeliness of work, providing advice and guidance, resolving problems to meet objectives, and providing periodic performance reports Work independently and efficiently within agile software development environment, utilizing tools and practices like JIRA, Confluence, GitLab, unit testing and harness. Provide mentoring to junior members of the team Must be able to work on-site in Ashburn, VA 2-3 days per week Benefits 401(k) 401(k) matching Dental insurance Flexible schedule Flexible spending account Health insurance Health savings account Life insurance Paid time off Professional development assistance Referral program Retirement plan Tuition reimbursement Vision insurance

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