Senior UX Designer

WHO WE ARE:

ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact in order to fuel long-term, people-powered change. If you’ve ever given online to a Democrat or progressive organization, chances are you’ve used our powerful online fundraising platform.

We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and help thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations — build grassroots movements. We envision a democracy where everyone looking to make progressive people-powered change can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to shape our country and futures. Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission.

THE OPPORTUNITY: 

As a UX Designer II you will lead discovery, ideation, and execute on end-to-end design of products and product features. You will work on end-to-end projects with agency and in concert with our UX research, product management, engineering, and internal teams. You will act as a mentor and potentially manage 1 to 2 designers, with the expectation of a player / coach role for yourself.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Partner with UX research and data teams to develop and foster a deep understanding of the behaviors, needs, and motivations of our users to inform products, services, and organizational decisions.  

• Actively evangelize the use of research and data to inform decisions within your product team’s work as well as the work of your design team peers. 

• Proactively work with the research team to identify as well as conduct research studies to inform the work of your product area. 

• Lead end-to-end design process and deliver pixel-perfect user flows at various stages, including at the ideation and research phases. Partner closely with cross-functional teams through each stage of the design process to deliver UX between various stages. 

• Contribute to the architecture of product spaces with limited guidance. And also play an active role in influencing best practices that guide and inform the standard of information architecture delivered by the design team. 

• Lead the end-to-end design process of your product space, including working with cross-functional partners to define timelines, trade-offs, constraints, etc. 

• Contribute to the ATS Design System through project work in exploring and delivering solutions for components and styles.  

• Proactively implement and follow our organizational design principles and industry best practices keeping the best interests of the user at the forefront. 

• Build and foster a strong design and research team culture as a key participant in team crits, providing constructive feedback and keeping research and data at the forefront. 

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed, cross-functional teams on complex product features.

• Experience leading end-to-end delivery of products, starting from ideation and discovery to pixel-perfect mocks. 

• Experience leading discovery, ideation and user research sessions.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams on product ideas and pitches, including the design and delivery of MVPs.

• You bring a user-first approach to UX design, grounding decisions in research and data. You have experience in incorporating research into your design process to inform UX decisions.

• You’re a strong storyteller with experience in presenting to audiences at multiple levels of the organization.

• Experience managing and/or mentoring junior designers.

• You’re comfortable working in a culture of feedback and approach conflict with curiosity.

• You’re dedicated to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, and don’t just welcome, but center and amplify, backgrounds and points of view that differ from yours.

• You care about progressive causes and politics and want to spend your time making a meaningful impact by doing what you do best.

• You’re comfortable with our design and tech stacks and are not afraid to dive in with curiosity to areas beyond your comfort.  

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH:

• Design stack: Figma, Adobe Suite, Miro

• Tech stack: Storybook, Styled Components, React, and other modern front-end technologies

OUR DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

• We believe that ideas are mo