UI/UX Designer (BQA / NATO) Long-Term Contract, Remote (Europe) Lisboa

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
  - 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
  - offs
• Present designs and decisions to stakeholders, auditors, and clients

Mandatory Requirements

1. 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
2. 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,
     - friendly interfaces under complex constraints
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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)
6. Usability & Testing
   • Experience conducting usability tests, gathering metrics, iterating based on feedback
   • Ability to analyze user behavior, feedback loops, A/B testing
7. Communication & Stakeholder Engagement
   • Strong written and verbal English
   • Ability to articulate design decisions,
     - offs, security concerns to non‑design stakeholders
8. Process & Documentation Discipline
   • Comfortable in environments with audits, version control, approval workflows, documentation standards
   • Meticulous attention to detail
9. 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.