MB-Lead Product Designer

Bonterra

26d • $109,000 - $140,000

About The Position

As a Lead Product Designer at NGP VAN, you will own the experience of Mobilize, a flagship product, and shape design direction across the broader product suite. The role combines hands-on design craft with strategic influence on product direction. You will collaborate with product managers, engineers, and cross-functional partners to drive sound decisions and create products used by people running campaigns, organizing communities, and turning out voters.

You will own end-to-end design for a flagship product, from early problem framing through launch and iteration; influence roadmap decisions; translate complex and ambiguous problems into scalable solutions for legacy product interfaces and AI innovation; and promote research, usability, accessibility, interaction quality, and visual craft. You will also contribute to shared design systems, establish patterns across products, and mentor designers.

Bonterra describes its mission as using technology and expertise to strengthen trust in the social good sector and increase giving as a percentage of GDP. Its product network supports more than 20,000 customers, including over 16,000 nonprofit organizations and more than 50 percent of Fortune 100 companies. This position is part of a bargaining unit represented by CWA Local 1400, 2336, or 13000. Candidates who require current or future employment authorization sponsorship cannot be considered.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of product design experience.
• A portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership of complex, multi-surface experiences and complex shipped work.
• Comfort designing AI functionality and working with an AI pattern library across products.
• Fluency in interaction design and visual craft, with a high quality bar at every level of fidelity.
• Experience working within and contributing to design systems, creating solutions that scale beyond the immediate product.
• Experience shaping product strategy alongside product managers and engineers and influencing decisions before execution.
• A strong research foundation, including knowing when to run usability tests, use existing data, and translate findings into action.
• Clear, confident communication with stakeholders at all levels, including the ability to defend and adapt decisions under scrutiny.
• Commitment to inclusive design, accessibility (WCAG), and ethical use of AI.
• Comfort integrating AI tools such as Claude, V0, and FigmaMake into the workflow.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with front-end principles such as HTML and CSS.
• Experience mentoring designers through critique, feedback, and modeling senior-level thinking.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design for a flagship NGP VAN product, from early problem framing through launch and iteration.
• Shape design direction across the NGP VAN product suite by establishing patterns and raising quality beyond the primary product.
• Partner with product and engineering leadership to influence roadmap decisions.
• Translate ambiguous, complex problems into clear, scalable design solutions for legacy product UI and AI innovation.
• Drive research and usability testing to ground decisions in evidence, and champion this standard across the team.
• Maintain a high bar for interaction quality, visual craft, and accessibility.
• Contribute to and evolve shared design systems and components that scale across products.
• Mentor designers and model lead-level thinking in critique, strategy, and execution.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package supporting health, well-being, and growth; detailed benefits are available through the employer's benefits information.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed