Senior Product Designer - Government Systems

Our partner is looking for a Senior Product Designer - Government Systems in Los Angeles, CA.

Seeking a Senior Product Designer for a growing Government Systems team. This team builds products and services that primarily support military users, on and off the battlefield.

The Senior Designer will participate in the design process end to end - envisioning future concepts, defining flows, crafting detailed interaction designs and prototypes, getting user feedback, and supporting delivery. You'll share resources and frameworks with the company’s wider Customer Experience, Research and Design team, and you'll play a key role in building tools and practices that work for government and military contexts. More importantly, you'll help engineers and product leads understand great UX and become more fluent in Human Centered Design.

Here's what you can expect to do in your first 6 months

By month 1..

• Work with a product team on improving existing features
• Immerse yourself in user insight, cultural context, and technical specifics of your product
• Review the future product roadmap, and calling out user issues and design opportunities
• Understand the design system

By month 3..

• Support a 2nd product team or a major feature
• Lead team work sessions to refine the visual design of upcoming features
• Validate your design directions with experts, technicians, and soldiers
• Present your work to the design community

By month 6..

• Support the UX overhaul of a legacy product
• Explore UX implications for an early-stage product
• Add new components or patterns to the design system

Requirements

• US citizenship required
• A Bachelor's Degree in Graphic Design, Visual Communication, Digital Media, Interaction Design, Industrial Design, Product Design, Human-Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Cognitive Science or related field - or commensurate work experience.
• 5+ years of experience designing human-centered digital products, with specific experience building user dashboards or other data-rich interfaces.
• Demonstrated depth in Visual Design, both applying and building on existing design systems
• Strong portfolio outlining user/business understanding, ideation, interaction, and visual design across a wide range of user experiences. We want to see a clear "thread" from user insight through to design tradeoffs, validation, and detailed execution
• Ability to think and design in terms of systems not just interface elements
• Ability to create high-fidelity mockups of your designs in Figma
• Experience collaborating with business, engineering, and others and helping them understand the design process
• Proven ability to own the design of a major feature, from concept to delivery
• Understanding of the agile software lifecycle and ability to engage with frontend and backend engineering teams to iterate and achieve the best solutions

• Experience in military or security contexts
• Experience with modern development languages, and ability to communicate design intent through code.