Senior UI/UX Project Designer (Part-time)

Welcome to Verdantas, where innovation meets sustainability, and your career finds purpose! At Verdantas, we're redefining environmental consulting and sustainable engineering through our use of cutting-edge modeling and digital technology and our genuine commitment to people. Our work spans high-growth sectors like water resources, resilient land use, energy transformation, and civil infrastructure. Our commitment to excellence, across more than 90 offices, is championed by a team of over 2,000 experts, scientists, engineers, geologists, and technical specialists, embedded in a people-focused culture, prioritizing the well-being of our employees, clients, and the communities we serve. We partner with clients to deliver smart, data-driven solutions to complex environmental and infrastructure challenges. We don't just solve problems; we help shape a more sustainable future. Join a people-first culture that values your well-being, empowers your growth, and amplifies your impact. At Verdantas, your career goes beyond the expected, and your work helps build a better world. Ready to shape the future of resilient communities? Verdantas is seeking a part-time Senior UI/UX Project Designer to join our team in Annapolis Junction, MD, Washington, DC, or Reston, VA. In this role, you will design cohesive, workflow-driven experiences for an ecosystem of complex, data-intensive applications. The role translates complex business requirements into end-to-end user experiences, documents how applications work, and carries that understanding from early concept through final stakeholder-approved designs.

What You'll Do:

User Experience Strategy & Workflow Design

• Lead the design of complete, workflow-driven user experiences for complex enterprise applications, including both administrative functionality and end-user workflows
• Document current and future-state user workflows, translating application behavior, user needs, and business requirements into clear interaction models, wireframes, and high-fidelity designs
• Ensure design decisions are carried consistently from discovery through final approved design to minimize implementation gaps and reduce the need for developers to make independent UX decisions
• Design intuitive user experiences for big-data applications, live-data interactions, and complex decision-support workflows

UI Design, Prototyping & Design Production

• Create low-fidelity concepts, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity user interface designs that are ready for stakeholder review and developer implementation
• Apply strong UI/UX design practices to improve usability, accessibility, interaction quality, and overall user satisfaction
• Use design tools such as Adobe XD, Illustrator, and Photoshop to produce clear, production-ready interface designs and supporting design assets
• Contribute to reusable design patterns, interface standards, and visual consistency across related applications and product workflows

Stakeholder Collaboration & Requirements Translation

• Partner closely with product owners, stakeholders, developers, and technical teams to understand needs, clarify requirements, and translate complex concepts into cohesive user experiences
• Facilitate design reviews, incorporate feedback, and drive alignment across business, product, and engineering stakeholders
• Advise teams on UX implications of workflow, data, and technical decisions, helping project teams make user-centered design decisions
• Work directly with technical contributors to support implementation clarity, including annotations, interaction notes, and design handoff documentation

Technical Collaboration & Implementation Awareness

• Collaborate with software developers working in Java Web, NodeJS, AWS, and related environments to ensure designs are feasible, maintainable, and aligned with technical architecture
• Support front-end implementation quality by providing guidance on styling, SCSS/SASS, micro-interactions, and user feedback patterns where applicable
• Work effectively in Agile/Scrum delivery environments and coordinate design deliverables with sprint planning, backlog refinement, and iterative development cycles
• Use version-controlled or DevOps-enabled collaboration practices, including GitLab where required, to support coordinated product delivery

Quality, Standards & Team Enablement

• Review designs for usability, consistency, accessibility, and implementation readiness before stakeholder approval and development handoff
• Provide informal guidance, mentoring, or review support to designers and visualization specialists
• Contribute to design standards, reusable assets, documentation practices, and workflow-design methods that improve quality and efficiency across application teams
• Support a culture of design quality by helping teams understand user workflows, reduce ambiguity, and build applications that serve both end-user and administrative needs

What You'll Bring:

• Bachelor's degree may be substituted for 4 years of experience; a master's degree may be substituted for 6 years of experience
• 18 years of UI/UX design, UI/UX development, or highly related experience with similar scope and responsibilities
• Experience documenting user workflows and translating them into wireframes, prototypes, and final UI designs
• Experience designing complex, workflow-driven enterprise applications
• Proficiency with Adobe XD, Illustrator, and Photoshop in the required operating environment
• TS/SCI with active CI
• Polygraph
• Preferred Experience implementing or partnering on SCSS/SASS styling, micro-animations, or interaction feedback patterns
• Familiarity with Java Web, NodeJS, AWS, GitLab, Agile/Scrum, and WebSockets or real-time data update patterns
• Experience with UX research, prototyping, communication, and user-centered design methods

Salary Range:

At Verdantas, we offer comprehensive benefits packages for our employees. Actual salary is based on the circumstances of each position and candidate, such as geographic location, skills, and certifications. We recognize and reward exceptional performance and strive to ensure fair compensation across all roles and departments within the company. The minimum salary for this position is $145,000 (negotiable based on the criteria presented above).

Benefits:

• Flexible Work Environment
• 401(k) with Company Match
• Verdantas strives to develop new ways to increase diversity awareness within our organization.
• We recruit and reward our employees based on capability and performance - regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, lifestyle, age, educational background, national origin, religion, or physical ability.
• For us, it is imperative to build balanced teams from all walks of life and we believe that a diverse workforce is a stronger workforce.

Verdantas is an EOE race/color/religion/sex/sexual orientation/gender identity/national origin/disability/vet

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