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About Agile Defense
At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That’s why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.
Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation’s vital interests.
Requisition: 1964
Job Title: Senior UX Designer
Location: Honolulu, HI | On-Site
Clearance Level: TS/SCI eligibility required
Required Certification(s): None
Summary
- The analysis comes from sessions with targeteers, JFE and JTCB staff, and J32 operators, and they confirm it is accurate.
- Pain points are ranked by operational cost and agreed with the Fires SMEs.
- Engineers know which steps the product should change and which it should leave alone.
- Functional requirements and workflow specifications, co-authored with the Fires SMEs, leave engineers no gaps to guess at.
- Data-dense comparison views and geospatial interfaces hold up in usability testing with operators.
- Design rationale is written down well enough that engineers and leadership can see why each choice was made.
- Approval gates make explicit who decides, at which step, and on what evidence, and the technical team implements them as constraints.
- Analysts can see why the system recommended something, question it, adjudicate discrepancies, and override it, and testing shows they do.
- Leadership and government stakeholders can walk through the decision pathway and find no step where authority is unclear.
- Usability studies or field evaluations measure time and manual steps against the workflow you documented at the start.
- Operators can say when they would accept a recommendation and when they would not.
- Findings from each evaluation change the backlog.
- Ability to maintain required TS/SCI access.
- You have led research and design for data-intensive or mission-critical applications used by expert operators.
- You have run task analysis or cognitive task analysis and turned the results into requirements engineers built from.
- You have designed decision, approval, or governance steps into a workflow and seen them hold up in use.
- You have designed for AI-enabled systems, with attention to explainability and human-machine teaming.
- You have a background in human factors engineering, cognitive psychology, or ergonomics.
- You have run usability studies or field evaluations with highly specialized users.
- You have worked in DoW, Joint, combatant command, Navy/NIWC, or CDAO mission environments. Knowledge of Joint Fires, command and control, or intelligence workflows is strongly valued.
Our Core Values
Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.
What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.
- Happy - Be Infectious. Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
- Helpful - Be Supportive. Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
- Honest - Be Trustworthy. Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
- Humble - Be Grounded. Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
- Hungry - Be Eager. Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
- Hustle - Be Driven. Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities



