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.
