Senior Product Designer – Clearance Required

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

📋 Description

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

• Conduct structured discovery sessions with end users through interviews, shadowing, and workflow observations.

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

• Convert mission objectives and operational needs into effective interaction designs.

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

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

• Contribute to and utilize a reusable design system.

• Focus on high-volume repetitive tasks, ensuring keyboard efficiency, scannability, minimal context switching, and low error rates in designs.

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

• Present AI-driven recommendations, confidence levels, and supporting evidence for user evaluation.

• Highlight areas of uncertainty and insufficient evidence.

• Design review, override, audit, and traceability processes.

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

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

• Assess builds against designs to maintain quality throughout implementation.

• Articulate design rationale to stakeholders.

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

• Assist in the development of training and adoption materials.

• Collaborate with existing designers to establish design best practices.

• Elevate the work of designers through review and collaboration.

⛳️ Requirements

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

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

• Comprehensive ownership of a comparable system from discovery to a deployed, widely adopted interface.

• Capability to establish design direction as the leading designer, without any design leadership above this role.

• Demonstrated discovery and delivery methodologies that can be immediately applied.

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

• Strong visual design skills in layout, hierarchy, and typography.

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

• Ability to transform ambiguous challenges into actionable solutions while balancing user, business, and technical requirements.

• Proficient in prototyping using Figma or similar tools.

• Knowledgeable in information architecture and design-system principles.

• Capable of designing for unfamiliar expert-user domains and effectively collaborating with time-constrained subject-matter experts.

• Fluent in accessibility standards, including Section 508 and WCAG.

• Comfortable creating design practices in the absence of established guidelines.

• Hands-on design role; this position does not focus on design management.

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

• US citizenship is required.

• Active US Top Secret clearance is mandatory.

• CAC eligibility is required from the outset.

• Willingness to travel up to 25% is expected.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with government users, controlled environments, review queues, AI outputs, government accessibility, fixed deliverables, front-end development, enterprise systems, regulated industries, technical complexity, and design systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package.

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

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO), subject to your manager’s approval.

• Flexible work environment allowing you to manage your own workday.

• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.

• Career advancement opportunities with the potential for rapid growth based on strong performance as the firm expands.

• Access to professional development and continuous learning opportunities.

• Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.

• Mental health support provided through Tara Mind.

• Affordable GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.