Senior Designer

This is a remote position with heavy travel during the first 3-6 months

Ad Hoc is a technology company that empowers organizations to deliver scalable, impactful digital services. Using modern, agile methods, our team creates products that meet people’s needs and transform their experience of government.

Work on things that matter

Our collaborations have shaped some of the defining moments in public-sector service delivery. We’ve helped build products that connect Veterans to tailored services, help millions access affordable health care, and support important programs like Head Start. As we work with agencies to deliver critical services, we’re also changing how the government approaches technology.

Built for a remote life

Our culture, communications, and tools are built for remote work, enabling us to bring together top talent nationwide. At Ad Hoc, remote life empowers our teams to design work environments that fit their lives and that foster flexibility and collaboration to achieve positive outcomes for our customers.

Committed to high expectations and a welcoming culture

Ad Hoc values acceptance, accountability, and humility. We aren’t heroes. We learn from our mistakes and improve the process for the next time. We build small, inclusive teams to collaborate closely with our partners to solve the right problems and deliver software that works.

The Federal Civilian business unit supports many customers spanning the federal, commercial, and nonprofit space. Our customers include NASA, the General Services Administration, Office of Personnel Management, the Library of Congress, Health & Human Services, and the FDIC. We partner with these agencies to build new capabilities, deliver products, establish data as a strategic asset for informed decision-making, modernize legacy systems, and build the digital service infrastructure necessary to scale their mission impact.

Primary Responsibilities:

The Senior UX Designer will play a critical role in modernizing how public health information is communicated to the public, helping millions of Americans access reliable, understandable, and actionable health guidance. This designer bridges policy, content, and technology—ensuring that complex scientific information is transformed into intuitive, user-centered digital experiences.

They will create design patterns that support dynamic and evolving public health content, integrate seamlessly with CMS-driven workflows, and uphold accessibility and federal design standards. As AI capabilities become part of the digital ecosystem, this designer will ensure emerging features—like AI-generated explanations, adaptive content, or real-time updates—are trustworthy, transparent, and easy to use.

By partnering with content, policy, engineering, and AI/ML teams, the Senior UX Designer ensures that every interface supports clarity, accuracy, and user trust. Their work will shape the next generation of digital public health tools—making information easier to find, easier to understand, and more responsive to the needs of the country.

Primary expectations of a Senior Designer include:

• Strong influential skills to build relationships with team members, government and company stakeholders, and program management

• May lead cross functional efforts for delivery team members and team leads

• Navigates ambiguous requirements and environments to support delivery

• Leads the delivery of design work such as design initiative briefs, discovery artifacts, sketches, wireframes, UX flows, low and high fidelity prototypes, heuristic evaluations, competitive analysis, and design system contributions

• Comprehensive understanding of scope requirements to prioritize design activities

• Responsible for working with users to support the development of effective designs

• Experienced with design skill principles, with the ability to provide recommendations associated with typography and hierarchy

• Delivers design work including discovery artifacts, sketches and rough prototypes, wireframes, UX flows, and high fidelity prototypes

• Demonstrates the ability to coach designers; with a focus on providing actionable feedback that helps individuals grow in objective ways

• Manages the development of competitive analysis, and reports results to stakeholders

• Contributes to the design libraries and provides visual design and brand artifacts

• Facilitates discussions with multi-disciplined teams to drive productive discussions and articulate goals in order to deliver upon requirements

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