UI/UX Designer

Role Overview

You will lead the user experience and interface design for secure applications, ensuring usability, accessibility, aesthetics, and compliance with high security / BQA / NATO constraints. You will partner with product, security, engineering, and compliance teams to deliver designs that meet strict standards without compromise.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the full UI/UX design cycle: research, user journeys, wireframes, mockups, prototypes, and delivery
• Translate security, compliance, accessibility, and usability requirements into design solutions
• Design with a security mindset (least privilege, visibility, error states, alerts)
• Produce high-fidelity prototypes and design assets consistent with brand, accessibility, and security guidelines
• Collaborate with engineering, product, security, and QA to ensure designs are implemented faithfully
• Conduct usability testing, feedback cycles, iteration, and validation
• Maintain design system, component library, and UX guidelines under strict standards
• Document design rationale, constraints, and trade-offs
• Present designs and decisions to stakeholders, auditors, and clients

Mandatory Requirements

• Domain / High-Security Experience

• Minimum 5+ years of UI/UX design experience in regulated, security, defense, or government environments

• Prior work on design projects for NATO / defense / BQA / classified or highly constrained domains

• Design & Research Mastery

• Strong experience in user research, persona building, journey maps, wireframing, prototyping (Figma, Sketch, Adobe XD, etc.)

• Deep ability to design responsive, accessible, user-friendly interfaces under complex constraints

• Security & Compliance Aware Design

• Experience designing UIs under strict security requirements (e.g. alerting, permissions, audit, logs)

• Ability to embed security cues, error states, warnings, and validation securely and clearly

• Interaction & Visual Design Skills

• Excellent visual design skills: typography, layout, color theory, iconography, UI components

• Fluent in design systems and component reuse, modular UI, responsive & adaptive design

• Collaboration & Implementation Sensibility

• Experience collaborating with front-end engineers; ability to deliver assets, specs, redlines, handoffs

• Understanding of front-end constraints (HTML/CSS, responsive behavior, performance)

• Usability & Testing

• Experience conducting usability tests, gathering metrics, iterating based on feedback

• Ability to analyze user behavior, feedback loops, A/B testing

• Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Strong written and verbal English

• Ability to articulate design decisions, trade-offs, security concerns to non-design stakeholders

• Process & Documentation Discipline

• Comfortable in environments with audits, version control, approval workflows, documentation standards

• Meticulous attention to detail

• Logistics & Eligibility

• Based in Europe (or legally contractible)

• Willing and able to undergo background checks, security clearance if required

Preferred (Not Mandatory)

• Direct UI/UX experience on NATO / BQA / defense contracts
• Experience designing for real-time, mission-critical systems or dashboards
• Knowledge of domain-specific UI constraints (e.g. geo-data, mapping, situational awareness)
• Experience with animation, micro-interactions, or advanced prototyping
• Usability / UX certifications or formal UX education

What We Offer

• Competitive contract compensation
• Fully remote (Europe)
• Long-term, meaningful engagement
• Opportunity to impact the usability and security of high-stakes systems
• Professional standards, structure, and high expectations

Application Instructions

To be considered, please submit:

• CV / resume clearly demonstrating UI/UX work in secure / regulated / defense environments
• Cover letter explaining how you meet each mandatory requirement
• Portfolio of past UI/UX designs, including prototypes, journeys, rationale, and security-constrained work
• References or contacts able to substantiate your design experience under secure/regulated domains

Note:
Only applications that clearly and specifically demonstrate you satisfy
all
mandatory requirements will be reviewed.