Founding Designer
About The Position
Concourse is building an operating system for state and local governments to bring fragmented government data and workflows into smoother operations for public servants and constituents. The Founding Designer will establish the foundational interface and design language used across Concourse products and deployments. This includes creating reusable design primitives and patterns that allow Forward-Deployed PMs to assemble solutions for varied government workflows while maintaining an intuitive, consistent product experience. The role focuses on designing systems that can model complex government processes, remain usable for people navigating detailed procedures, and uphold consistent quality across deployments with different audiences and requirements. The designer will own the design library and deliver it as production front-end code, working with AI agents and engineers.
Requirements
- Provide a portfolio demonstrating end-to-end work shipped under real client pressure and constraints.
- Hands-on experience using AI coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, or Factory as a core part of the daily workflow.
- High-agency, high-velocity mindset and exceptional work ethic.
- At least 5 years of product design experience, including early-stage startup experience.
- Experience building or substantially shaping a design system that has worked across more than one product.
- Comfort working with extreme ambiguity and incomplete information.
- Pixel-level attention to detail combined with systems thinking.
- Comfort delivering code; Figma may be used as a thinking tool, but is not the final output.
- Strong relationship-building skills with non-technical stakeholders and ability to translate their workflows into interfaces.
- U.S. citizenship or work authorization.
- Willingness to work in person in Flatiron, New York City, five days per week.
Responsibilities
- Define Concourse’s design language and shared conventions, including casing, form patterns, error and empty states, motion, and authentication flows.
- Create flexible, reusable components that Forward-Deployed PMs can use to model different workflows while maintaining standards and enabling non-engineers to assemble products.
- Own the design library used across Concourse products, including tokens, primitives, components, motion, templates, and documentation.
- Deliver the design system as production front-end code, working with AI agents and engineers rather than handing off Figma files for implementation.
- Develop elegant solutions for complex government workflows, including multi-approver reviews, conditional fee schedules, statutory deadlines, and legacy data models.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
