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Product Designer Graduate Intern (Summer 2022)

LMI

Overview

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to powering a future-ready, high-performing government, drawing from expertise in digital and analytic solutions, logistics, and management advisory services. We deliver integrated capabilities that incorporate emerging technologies and are tailored to customers’ unique mission needs, backed by objective research and data analysis. Founded in 1961 to help the Department of Defense resolve complex logistics management challenges, LMI continues to enable growth and transformation, enhance operational readiness and resiliency, and ensure mission success for federal civilian and defense agencies.
 
The Product Design Graduate Intern will work with LMI Forge™, LMI’s technology accelerator and innovation hub & the Business Transformation Service Line, to deeply understand customer problems and take on various roles to create solutions. This position will work with innovators, product managers, developers, other designers, and subject matter experts to create visions of solutions and bring those visions to life using a variety of design tools and approaches. The Product Design Graduate Intern, working with a product manager, will work closely with users to research and understand their problems, develop potential solutions, and clearly illustrate solutions to stakeholders and customers across the federal government. The fidelity of solutions will range from low-fidelity mock-ups to functional design prototypes and interactive models. The Product Design Graduate Intern will work with LMI employees and customers to test solution designs, solicit feedback, and transition viable solutions to larger-scale development teams.
 
*This position is currently full-time telework with the ability to periodically work out of our Tysons, VA HQ if desired*

Responsibilities

  • Work with users and subject matter experts to clearly understand and define their challenges, problems, motivations, triggers, and aspirations
  • Solve problems and think critically to architect innovative and practical technology and functional solutions
  • Work closely with product managers, product owners, UX/UI designers, full-stack engineers, and developers to design and build solution mock-ups and prototypes
  • Create a wide range of design artifacts, such as wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity designs, and journey maps
  • Demonstrate product designs and solution prototypes to senior leadership, service lines, and markets
  • Integrate elements of system, process, and interface design to demonstrate frictionless user experiences
  • Rapidly test designs with users in collaboration with other UX/UI designers
  • Incorporate feedback from research and user testing to inform design decisions
  • Transition designs to engineering and development teams to build solutions and work alongside these teams to make sure solutions are on track with the original design
  • Monitor the success of user experiences and iterate to adjust and evolve product designs
  • Collaborate with service lines, markets, and corporate enterprise services to target products that strategically align to capabilities, customer opportunities, and internal corporate needs
  • Generate buy-in for product vision with both senior leadership and customer stakeholders
  • Maintain familiarity with current trends in technology, innovation, and salient challenges in the federal government

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in product design, graphic design, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, or related technical discipline
  • Currently enrolled in a graduate program
  • Must be able to work for a minimum of 10 weeks beginning in May or June of 2022
  • Minimum 1 year of experience in product design or related discipline
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Entrepreneurial spirit, independent and self-motivated, and results-oriented
  • Technically adept and business-focused to interface across technical disciplines
  • Experience with design tools, such as Adobe XD, Balsamiq, Figma, InVision, Sketch, and Zeplin
  • Ability to grasp technical concepts and apply them effectively to practical solutions
  • Ability to take on multiple perspectives ranging from business end users to solution architects, engineers, and developers
Applicants for this position may be subjected to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information. Please note that only US Citizens are eligible to obtain security clearances.