Senior UX/UI Designer

Description
CDW Government is seeking an experienced Senior UX/UI Designer to support the design and delivery of modern digital solutions. This hands-on individual contributor will lead human-centered design activities, create intuitive user experiences, and deliver production-ready design assets that improve public health technology and disease surveillance systems. The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in UX, UI, human-centered design, accessibility, and design systems. This role partners with product managers, engineers, public health subject-matter experts, and government stakeholders. The designer will also mentor peers through design critiques, facilitate workshops, and promote practical UX standards across project teams.
What You Will Do
• Lead the end-to-end UX and product design process, from discovery through implementation, for enterprise and public health applications. • Plan and facilitate stakeholder interviews, user interviews, contextual inquiry, journey mapping, design-thinking workshops, ideation sessions, and co-creation workshops. • Translate complex public health workflows and business processes into clear, intuitive digital experiences. • Create personas, journey maps, information architecture, task flows, wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity interface designs. • Develop and maintain a scalable design system based on the U.S. Web Design System or a comparable enterprise design system. • Create reusable Figma component libraries with documentation, usage guidance, specifications, and developer handoff details. • Partner with front-end developers to maintain design fidelity and support successful implementation. • Conduct usability testing and turn qualitative and quantitative findings into practical design recommendations. • Promote accessible and inclusive design, including Section 508 and WCAG compliance. • Participate in design reviews, sprint reviews, progress updates, readouts, and stakeholder presentations. • Mentor junior designers through collaborative coaching, critiques, and knowledge sharing.
What We Expect of You
• Bachelor's degree in human-centered design, human-computer interaction, UX/UI design, product design, interaction design, graphic design, information design, or a related field. Equivalent professional experience may be considered. • 10+ years of professional experience in product design, UX design, UI design, human-centered design, or a related field. • Current human-centered design certification and a current UX certification from a recognized organization or training provider. • Certified ScrumMaster or equivalent Agile certification or training. • Formal training or demonstrated experience in Section 508 compliance and WCAG accessibility standards. • Expert proficiency with Figma for design, prototyping, component libraries, and developer handoff. • Demonstrated experience creating, documenting, and governing enterprise design systems using USWDS or a similar component-based system. • Strong knowledge of responsive design, usability, interaction design, visual design, information architecture, and user research methods. • Excellent communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder-engagement skills. • Experience working within Agile or Scrum software-development teams. • Experience supporting public health, government, or healthcare technology initiatives, is a plus. • Understanding of state, tribal, local, and territorial public health operations and workflows, is a plus. • Familiarity with disease surveillance, infectious-disease reporting, case management, epidemiology workflows, and public health modernization, is a plus. • Experience with public health surveillance platforms such as NBS, EpiTrax, or Maven, is a plus. • Experience supporting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or another federal public health agency, is a plus. • Familiarity with public health interoperability standards and data-exchange initiatives, is a plus. Pay range: $105,000 - $150,180 depending on experience and skill set Annual bonus target of 10% subject to terms and conditions of plan Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/ Salary ranges may be subject to geographic differentials
* CDW is committed to being an AI-fluent organization
* We're looking for people who bring curiosity, a learner's mindset, and a willingness to engage with ever-evolving technology and tools. We value adopting AI as a partner, openness to experimentation, and a shared interest in learning together on AI. Our goal is to create a culture where AI enhances- not replaces- human creativity and decision-making. You don't need to be an expert today; what matters is your readiness to explore, adapt, and grow with us as we integrate AI responsibly and effectively into our work.Additionally, CDW is committed to fostering an equitable, transparent, and respectful hiring process for all applicants. During our application process, our goal is to understand your experience, strengths, skills, and qualifications. As an AI forward company, we see AI not just as a tool, but as a catalyst for new ways of thinking, creating, and communicating. We encourage candidates to embrace an AI mindset, one that's curious, adaptive, and ready to explore what's possible. We welcome thoughtful use of AI to expand your perspective and elevate how you share your story, while ensuring your application remains rooted in your own background, judgment, and voice.
* About Us
* CDW is a Fortune 500 technology solutions provider that helps businesses, government, education, and healthcare organizations achieve what's possible through technology. What makes CDW different isn't just what we do- it's how we do it. At CDW we act as one- building trust, speaking candidly, and working together to achieve more. We play to win- focusing on what matters most and delivering for our customers. And we think forward- staying curious, moving fast, and continuously learning. We believe meaningful work happens when people feel supported, heard, and empowered to contribute. That's why we think of ourselves as coworkers, not just employees- working together to solve complex challenges and deliver real impact for our customers and communities. As a full-stack, full-lifecycle technology partner, CDW brings deep expertise, strong relationships, and broad industry knowledge to help turn ideas into outcomes. When you join CDW, you become part of a collaborative environment where your work matters, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape what's next. Together, we deliver the full promise of what technology can do.
* Together, we Make Amazing Happen.
* CDW is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by state and local law.