Product Strategist and Designer

Description

As a Product Strategist and Designer, you play a critical role in influencing the future of products in a large Government organization. In this role, you will be passionate about creating exceptional user experiences!  You will define product strategy, as well as influence multiple projects and initiatives across the organization. You will have the opportunity to perform product discovery and design for a range of user personas, that may include internal users (Government) as well as external users (General Public). 

You will:

• Define, articulate, and build strategy around a vision driving the overall strategic design for future products.
• Engage broadly across product teams and functions to understand drivers of performance and collaborate on optimizing business processes.
• Partner with leaders/analyst/users to deeply understand user needs and drive alignment around solutions to core business problems by creating models, concepts diagrams, workflow diagrams, and journey maps.
• Design flows, sketches, prototypes, and drive implementation for your products.
• Design experiences for web applications.
• Lead discovery sessions, design reviews, and work closely with many different stakeholders.
• Contribute to building a strong human centered design culture.
• Manage one or more product managers to guide and prioritize work give the vision and strategy.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Team Culture:

Your passion and values might be a good fit for our teams if you answer “yes” to the following questions:

• Are you looking for a company that puts employees first, with a focus on career, flexibility, and well-being?
• Do you enjoy collaborating with colleagues and teammates and believe that the best ideas are fostered in an inclusive environment?
• Are you searching for a team with a strong sense of ownership, urgency, and drive for daily mission success?
• Are you comfortable with proactive outward communication and technical leadership?
• Do you enjoy being a catalyst, solving complex problems, and providing innovative solutions?
• Do you have the flexibility, creativity, and resilience to pivot the mission for success?
• Do you have the courage to make tough ethical decisions with pride, transparency, and respect?

Mentorship & Career Growth:

Our teams are dedicated to supporting new team members in an environment that celebrates knowledge sharing and mentorship. Experienced Product Mentors will be assigned to new hires for one-on-one mentoring and coaching on customer engagement to help each new hire successfully onboard and demonstrate their skills. Projects and tasks are assigned in a way that leverages your strengths and will help you further develop your skillset.

Foundation for Success (Basic Qualifications):

This experience is the foundation a candidate needs to be successful in this position:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering field or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred.
• Minimum of 7-10 years business experience, with at least 5 years in a product development role.
• Experience designing exceptional user experiences for large-scale products.
• Executed product discovery techniques such as customer interviews, prototyping, and user testing.
• Experience driving and executing on Product strategy in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• High comfort taking business objectives and key results through product discovery and design; comfortable communicating and educating teams on the product design process.
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Strong strategic thinking, problem solving, analytical / critical thinking skills.
• Experience working and influencing cross-functional teams (managers, existing users and analysts, to adopt new and transformative experiences).
• Capable of handling multiple initiatives at once.

Factors to Help You Shine (Required Skills):

These skills will help you succeed in this position:

• Passion to create exceptional customer experiences.
• Hands-on product and design experience managing large-scale products with a focus on designing customer and user experiences that solve real-world problems.
• Strong communication skills to effectively collaborate and influence stakeholders and team members.
• Experience with Prototyping, Designing, Wireframing, and Road mapping.

How to Stand Out from the Crowd (Desired Skills)

Showcase your knowledge of modern development through the following experience or skills:

• Experience working with product design tools such as Axure, Adobe XD, Figma, Sketch.
• Experience with wireframing, prototyping, documenting personas, constructing journey maps, constructing story maps.
• Resilience and ability to bounce back from failures, learn from mistakes, and keep moving forward.
• Attention to detail and ability to design products that are visually appealing, functional, and intuitive for end users.
• Creativity generating new and innovative ideas to meet user needs.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

At Leidos, we deliver innovative solutions through the efforts of our diverse and talented people who are dedicated to our customers’ success. We empower our teams and contribute to our communities. Everything we do is built on a commitment to do the right thing for our customers, our people, and our community. Our Mission, Vision, and Values guide the way we do business. If this sounds like a mission you want to be a part of, keep reading!

Every position we take is more rewarding when you know the why behind it. Know your work makes a difference to support those who need it most. If your passion is enabling life changing service to those around, you this is the place for you. Find you passion in a team environment where all members are valued regardless of contractor or employee status.  We are excited for you to take your place in our Leidos Family.

Find your “Why” with us!

• Define, articulate, and build strategy around a vision driving the overall strategic design for future products.
• Engage broadly across product teams and functions to understand drivers of performance and collaborate on optimizing business processes.
• Partners with leaders/analyst/users to deeply understand user needs and drive alignment around solutions to core business problems by creating models, concepts diagrams, workflow diagrams, and journey maps.
• Design flows, sketches, prototypes, and drive implementation for your products.
• Design experiences for web applications.
• Lead discovery sessions, design reviews, and work closely with many different stakeholders.
• Contribute to building a strong human centered design culture.
• Manage one or more product managers to guide and prioritize work give the vision and strategy.
• All other duties as assigned or directed.

Education & Qualifications

• 12 years + with Bachelor’s degree in business, or equivalent work experience; advanced degree preferred.
• UI/UX/CX Certifications:
  • Certified Usability Analyst (CUA)
  • Certified User Experience Professional (CUXP)
  • Design Thinking Certification
  • Nielsen Norman Group Certifications (NN/g)
• Product Management Certifications:
  • AIPMM Certified Professional in Product Management (CPM)
  • Pragmatic Marketing
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Leidos’ Health Group is recognized as a Top 10 Health IT provider. We draw on decades of success to deliver a range of solutions and services designed to meet the healthcare challenges of today. From the research bench to the patient bedside, we are a company of scientists, engineers, and technologists delivering a broad range of impactful, customizable, and scalable solutions to hospitals and health systems, biomedical organizations, and every U.S. federal agency focused on health. Leidos works with customers across the continuum of care to improve clinical, operational, and financial outcomes with innovative solutions that advance the next generation of care. Our mission is to contribute to creating a healthier world. Begin your journey of a flourishing and meaningful career, share your resume with us today! ITSSCII

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

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About Leidos

Leidos is a Fortune 500® technology, engineering, and science solutions and services leader working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in the defense, intelligence, civil, and health markets. The company’s 46,000 employees support vital missions for government and commercial customers. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $14.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 30, 2022.  For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available here.

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Commitment to Diversity

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.