Product Design Manager jobs in Suffolk, VA

Yorktown Systems Group, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. No employee or applicant for employment is denied equal opportunity because of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, any other non-merit-based factor, or other characteristics protected by law. As part of the company's equal employment opportunity policy, Yorktown Systems Group, Inc. will also take affirmative action as called for by applicable laws and Executive Orders to ensure that minority group individuals, females, disabled veterans, recently separated veterans, other protected veterans, Armed Forces service medal veterans, and qualified disabled persons are introduced into our workforce and considered for promotional opportunities.

Yorktown Systems Group, Inc. is a committed team of dedicated former military and civilian professionals who believe in providing ethical and quality services to Government customers. Our leadership team is composed primarily of Veterans who are now serving in a corporate environment rather than in uniform. Our customer's missions become our own and we are committed to working as a team to achieve success.

Because of the depth and experiences of our corporate leadership, we can assure all our customers that "we will do what we say we can do" and will focus on our customer's missions rather than corporate goals. Our business model is based on a personal commitment from our leaders to maintain contact with our customers to continually and consistently gauge our performance.

Yorktown Systems Group was founded on the idea that providing quality and ethical services with a laser focus on our customer's goals is an effective long-term business model. Our mission, therefore, is to help our customers meet their requirements and goals.

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Summary:

Yorktown Systems Group is seeking highly qualified Product Design Lead to provide professional services and support to the TRADOC Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2) Operational Environment (OE) and Core Functions. The Operational Environment (OE) is a composite of the conditions, circumstances, and influences that affect the employment of military forces and bear on the decisions of the unit commander. As an organic, complex system, the OE provides the common framework in which warfighting programs and strategies are conceived, defined, and executed. It is a living foundation in which choices made, by adversary and allies alike, affect the outcome of the future which must be accounted for. As adversary’s asymmetrical approach to warfare continues to generate greater complexity and flexibility, the government’s requirement for similar complexity and adaptability in Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs) escalates correspondingly.

TRADOC Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence (G-2)’s mission is to understand, visualize, describe, deliver & assess the OE in order to reduce risk and prevent surprise; today and into the future 2035 . TRADOC G-2 is the designated Lead for Core Function #13 Operational Environment; the process of developing, verifying, validating, accrediting, and providing OE products and services represents an authoritative, validated OE contextual baseline for TRADOC users and operational forces in the areas of training and training development; education; leader development; concept and doctrine development; and capabilities development, integration, and evaluation.

Specific duties may include, but are not limited to:

• Translating interaction design and information architecture into intuitive user experiences.
• Facilitate product visions by researching, conceiving, wireframing, sketching, prototyping, and mocking up user experiences for digital products.
• Understand and incorporate complex technical and business requirements into research.
• Design and develop interaction models or specialized user interfaces that meet the integration requirements.
• Develop effective websites, web interfaces, and web portals that include middleware/PaaS/Service Bus/API capabilities to integrate services within the portal.
• Host, deploy, and sustain local baseline to training community.
• Create 3D content (models, terrain, and functionality) within this 3D environment
• Modify Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs) to continuously improve the user experience within this VE.
• In addition to the duties and responsibilities outlined above, this position will also serve as the CART Project Manager.

Required Qualifications:

• Must be U.S. citizen
• Master's Degree in Computer Science or related discipline
• Minimum 5 years of experience in a wide-range of technologies and languages such as Enterprise Architecture, Object Oriented Programming (Java/.Net), Webservices (SOAP/REST), Relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, Postgres), Web Development (JavaScript, HTLML/CSS, AngularJS, ReactJS), Cloud Deployments (MilCloud/AWS/Azure), Agile/SCRUM development

Clearance: Must be able to obtain security clearance

Location: FT Eustis

Travel: Travel may be required