Product Designer Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• 4–5 years of product design experience shipping software, supported by a portfolio demonstrating process and decision-making.
• Strong proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto-layout, and variables.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining a design system, including defining tokens and component APIs, documenting usage, communicating version changes, managing deprecations, and aligning the design library with its coded implementation.
• Experience designing complex, information-dense applications, such as enterprise, analytics, logistics, or operational tools.
• Working knowledge of front-end concepts, including component structure, state, responsive behavior, and design tokens, and the ability to collaborate with engineers and identify implementation drift.
• Experience using discovery, user research, or competitive analysis to inform design decisions and solve product problems.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills, including translating business goals into functional design solutions, explaining trade-offs, and respectfully challenging decisions.
• Ability to work independently on standard design challenges and recognize when to seek guidance on complex architectural or system-scaling decisions.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, written, and asynchronous communication skills, including the ability to articulate design rationale and build alignment across teams, time zones, and security boundaries.
• Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.
• Ability to work an expected 40 hours per week.

Nice To Haves

• A clearance above Secret, such as Top Secret or TS/SCI.
• Prior work on defense, government, or other regulated or compliance-heavy products.
• Experience contributing code to a design system or front-end codebase using React, TypeScript, or CSS.
• Familiarity with map-based interfaces, scheduling and timeline UI, or simulation and modeling tools.
• Experience designing for classified or air-gapped environments, or working within FedRAMP and IL5 constraints.

Responsibilities

• Own feature design from discovery through shipped implementation, including problem framing, flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and design QA.
• Design complex, information-dense experiences such as tables, map and timeline views, simulation outputs, and multi-role workflows.
• Contribute to and extend the @defcon/ui design system by building Figma components, defining tokens and variants, and partnering with engineering on React/TypeScript implementation.
• Conduct lightweight discovery with subject-matter experts and end users within government-environment access constraints, and turn findings into shared team artifacts.
• Design authentication flows, including CAC/PIV, role-based access control, permissions, empty and error states, and audit-friendly interactions.
• Meet WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 accessibility requirements.
• Participate in design critique and present work clearly to non-designers, customers, and program stakeholders.

Benefits

• Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement based on strong performance as the firm grows.
• 100% employer-paid comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for the employee and family.
• 14 weeks of paid maternity and paternity leave at normal pay.
• Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
• Professional development and continued learning opportunities.
• Optional 401(k), FSA, and equity incentives.
• Mental health benefits through Tara Mind.
• Cost-effective GLP-1 solutions through Crux.