UX Designer (Level 2)Aviture is hiring a User-Experience Designer (Level 2).Building new technology is a trade. Innovating with the intent to create impact is an art that transforms organizations.
Aviture is a consulting firm, so our designers do not spend five years on one product. You will be placed on commercial and government programs as client needs evolve, often joining teams already in motion. We need someone who gets oriented fast, earns trust with engineers and product leaders, and raises the quality of whatever they touch. We want a systems thinker: someone who sees how the pieces of a product, a program, and a client relationship fit together, and who shapes a long-term vision for growth and a better product. Much of that work right now is
design systems: building, auditing, and scaling the shared foundations that multiple teams, and increasingly AI agents, depend on.
We are looking for a Senior UX Designer who treats design as a way to reduce risk and prevent wasted effort, not just a way to produce screens. You will get into strategic conversations early, use AI to explore more and move faster, bring evidence to the table, and explain UX value in language engineers and product leaders respect.
We're looking for a rockstar UX Designer who will...- Lead UX on client programs from discovery through delivery, adapting quickly to new domains, teams, and constraints.
- Build, extend, audit, and govern design systems: tokens, components, patterns, and the documentation that makes them usable by designers, developers, and AI agents.
- Think in systems. Look past the feature in front of you to how pieces fit together across a product and program. Set a long-term vision for the experience, and connect today's decisions to where the product needs to grow.
- Shape direction early, grounded in research. Do in-depth research with real users, and use it with prototypes to influence product decisions before requirements harden and changes get expensive. Keep pushing until decisions are validated with evidence, not left as assumptions.
- Collaborate deeply and give direction. Work closely with every role on the team. Evaluate the opportunities and prototypes others bring, including engineer-built and AI-generated ones, and give clear, confident guidance on where to take them.
- Build relationships that hold the system together with your team, the customer, and the users you design for. Systems thinking depends on trust and context from all three.
- Pair with engineers. Build functional prototypes and, using AI coding tools, contribute front-end changes (component updates, token changes, UI fixes) through your team's normal code review process.
- Establish AI-augmented workflows for research synthesis, ideation, prototyping, and validation, and help teammates adopt them.
- Own accessibility on every program, commercial or government. Treat WCAG 2.2 AA as the floor, not the goal. Design inclusively for people with permanent, temporary, and situational disabilities, test with assistive technology and real users, and document compliance, including Section 508 when a program requires it.
- Facilitate workshops, design sprints, and usability studies that turn ambiguity into decisions.
- Make the case for UX in terms of risk reduced, rework avoided, and decision quality, and help define the metrics that prove it.
- Grow the people around you by mentoring designers and contributing to Aviture's UX community through critique and shared practices.
HOW WE WORK WITH AIAI fluency is a core expectation for every designer at Aviture. We use AI to synthesize research, explore a wider solution space, prototype earlier, and move work into code faster, while human judgment stays in charge of the decisions.
Tooling varies by program. Some client environments, particularly in government, restrict which AI tools are approved. You will be expected to work effectively within those constraints and help your team get the most from whatever is approved.
Sound like you? Apply today:
Requirements- 5+ years of UX or product design experience, including complex, multi-surface products. Enterprise, data-dense, or mission-critical work is a plus.
- Hands-on design system experience: contributing to or leading a system with tokens, component libraries, and documentation, ideally across multiple teams.
- Expert Figma skills, including variables, components, auto layout, and handoff practices that make designs development-ready.
- Working fluency with AI for design work: writing effective prompts, critically evaluating output, and knowing when AI is the wrong tool.
- Comfort working in code, or a real willingness to learn: reading HTML, CSS, and component code, and using AI-assisted tools to make and submit changes through Git. We will teach you the workflow.
- Strong accessibility knowledge beyond compliance checklists: WCAG 2.2 AA, inclusive design practices, and hands-on testing with screen readers, keyboard, and magnification. Section 508 experience is a plus.
- Evidence of systems thinking: work where you connected multiple teams, products, or user journeys into a coherent long-term direction, not just a single feature.
- A research practice you can defend: you pick methods to fit the question, synthesize findings into decisions, and advocate for users when the findings are inconvenient.
- Confidence evaluating others' work: you can review a prototype or proposal from any team member, name what works and what does not, and give clear direction without needing to own the design yourself.
- A portfolio or case studies that show your process, your rationale, and the outcomes your work drove, not just final screens.
- Strong relationship builder with engineers, product leaders, clients, and users, including the confidence to challenge with respect.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.[C1]
NICE TO HAVE- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance.
- Experience on government, defense, or other regulated programs.
- Experience structuring design systems for AI consumption: consistent naming, semantic tokens, and machine-readable documentation.
- Experience with token pipelines, Storybook, or Figma Code Connect.
- Front-end experience in React, Angular, or similar frameworks.
- Consulting or agency experience.
A degree is not required. We care about what you can do and how you think.
NOT QUITE SENIOR YET? READ THIS.If you have 3+ years of experience, solid UX fundamentals, and a track record of leading beyond your title (building a design community, running critiques, mentoring, speaking, or driving adoption of a practice across teams), we want to hear from you. We will level you based on what you bring and build a growth plan toward senior using Aviture's UX core competencies.
Benefits- PPO or a High Deductible Health Plan, HSA eligible plan, Dental, Vision, and Supplemental Life.
- Generous paid time off that starts accruing on day one.
- Hybrid work environment with quarterly Castaway Week events in the Omaha HQ Office, all expenses paid, from across the country to participate in team-building, collaboration, and fun events.
- Matching 401k with 100% vesting in six months.
- Pick your preferred workstation! Mac? PC? We'll support you with the tech you need to do your best work.
- Get paid to go to national and international conferences and training, so that you can stay up to date with the latest innovations.
- Flexible work schedules: Work the times that fits your schedule, with all meetings required to be scheduled between 9 am and 3 pm CST.
- Free lunch every Friday and recurring team events for you and your family to enjoy.
- Incentive and bonus pay.
- Opportunities for connection and growth through peer coaching, recurring Lightning Talks to share things we're passionate about, and a bi-weekly company-wide All Hands.
