Senior UX Designer, Interaction Design

State Affairs•Washington, DC

11d•$140,000 - $160,000•Onsite

About The Position

State Affairs is the nation’s leading news and policy intelligence platform focused on state governments. We combine nonpartisan coverage of Statehouses across the country alongside state government data and AI-native tools into a singular platform. We inform and empower decision makers, policy professionals and citizens through our award-winning journalism and data – delivering profound insights to help our customers decode and act on state politics and policy. We’re building a category-defining business that will reshape America as we strengthen visibility into what’s happening and why at the state level. We are hiring a Senior UX Designer, Interaction Design to join our team located in San Francisco, California or Washington, DC As the Senior UX Designer, Interaction Design you will: Own the interaction layer: Define and validate complex user flows, information architecture, and interaction models across multiple products on web and mobile. Drive product strategy: Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate high-level product goals and vague concepts into clear, shippable features, ensuring a balance between speed-to-market and user value. Prototype for clarity: Utilize advanced prototyping skills (in Figma) to communicate functionality, detailed interaction pathways, and motion effectively to engineers and stakeholders. Ensure design quality: Work closely with engineers to ensure technical feasibility and a high-quality implementation that meets design intent.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in human-computer interaction, user experience, or a related field
5+ years of professional work experience in software product design, interaction design, and user experience
A strong portfolio demonstrating recent design experience
Proven ability to operate autonomously and contribute to product strategy beyond just execution.
Ability to work Comfort working in a fast-paced, startup environment with a willingness to quickly discard ideas and pivot based on feedback.

Nice To Haves

Experience contributing to, maintaining, and building robust design systems.
Experience with data analytics tools and the ability to optimize designs based on collected quantitative and qualitative metrics.
Strong opinions, loosely held – you have conviction in your design decisions, but approach feedback and critique with humility.

Responsibilities

Own the interaction layer: Define and validate complex user flows, information architecture, and interaction models across multiple products on web and mobile.
Drive product strategy: Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering to translate high-level product goals and vague concepts into clear, shippable features, ensuring a balance between speed-to-market and user value.
Prototype for clarity: Utilize advanced prototyping skills (in Figma) to communicate functionality, detailed interaction pathways, and motion effectively to engineers and stakeholders.
Ensure design quality: Work closely with engineers to ensure technical feasibility and a high-quality implementation that meets design intent.