Senior Product Designer – Clearance Required

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Virginia.

📋 Description

• Take charge of intricate product experiences from the initial discovery phase to final delivery for a new AI-driven decision-support system.

• Conduct structured discovery sessions with end users through interviews, shadowing, and observing workflows.

• Create current-state and future-state workflow diagrams.

• Convert mission and operational requirements into effective interaction designs.

• Develop an interactive clickable prototype that includes prioritized queues, enrichment panels, record history, and dashboards.

• Design the user workspace comprehensively, incorporating queues, unified record views, evidence, enrichment panels, decision flows, record history, trend views, and operational dashboards.

• Contribute to and utilize a reusable design system.

• Focus on designing for high-volume, repetitive tasks with an emphasis on keyboard efficiency, scannability, minimal context switching, and low error rates.

• Create accessible interfaces that comply with Section 508 and WCAG standards.

• Present model recommendations, confidence levels, and supporting evidence.

• Make uncertainty and evidence gaps apparent.

• Design views for review, override, audit, and traceability.

• Collaborate with product and engineering teams from problem identification through to the product launch.

• Work closely with front-end engineers to enhance the design handoff process.

• Review builds to maintain quality standards throughout implementation.

• Articulate design rationale to stakeholders.

• Iterate designs based on user feedback, analytics, and acceptance testing findings.

• Assist in creating training and adoption materials.

• Collaborate with the existing designer.

• Establish repeatable research methodologies, reusable design patterns, and streamlined engineering handoffs.

• Enhance design quality through review and collaborative efforts.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 8 years of experience in product or UX design.

• A portfolio showcasing shipped, complex applications utilized by individuals in real-world scenarios.

• Complete ownership of a comparable system, from discovery to a deployed and adopted interface.

• Capability to set design direction as the leading designer without higher-level design leadership.

• A well-established discovery and delivery methodology that can be immediately adapted.

• Proven expertise in designing data-rich, workflow-intensive enterprise interfaces, including role-based views, dashboards, data visualizations, queues, and case or record views.

• Strong visual craftsmanship in layout, hierarchy, and typography.

• Direct experience in user research, including user interviews and observations.

• Proficient in transforming ambiguous challenges into clear, usable solutions while balancing user, business, and technical requirements.

• Strong prototyping skills in Figma or similar tools.

• Knowledge of information architecture and design system principles.

• Comfortable designing for expert users and navigating unfamiliar domains.

• Ability to work efficiently with time-constrained subject matter experts.

• Fluency in accessibility standards including Section 508 and WCAG.

• Capable of developing design practices in the absence of an established framework.

• Active participant in design; this role is not focused on design management.

• Comfortable working within a cross-functional agile product team.

• US Citizenship is required.

• Must possess an active US Top Secret clearance.

• Eligibility for CAC from the outset.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer locations, DEFCON AI HQ, and vendor sites.

• Preferred experience includes government-user, controlled-environment, review-queue, triage, AI/model-output, government accessibility, fixed-deliverable, front-end, enterprise/regulated-product, and design-system experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary along with bonus and equity options.

• Comprehensive health insurance, covering medical, dental, and vision for you and your family, fully paid by the employer.

• Unlimited PTO with manager approval.

• A flexible work environment allowing you to manage your own workday.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

• Fully remote position in a results-oriented setting.