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

UI/UX Designer (BQA / NATO) Long-Term Contract, Remote (Europe)
Bucureşti
Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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
     - end engineers; ability to deliver assets, specs, redlines, handoffs

   • Understanding of
     - 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
     - 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
  - time,
  - critical systems or dashboards

• Knowledge of
  - specific UI constraints (e. g.
  - data, mapping, situational awareness)

• Experience with animation,
  - 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
  - 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
  - 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.