Senior Product Designer

The Senior Product Designer will lead complex, cross-functional work, from defining problem spaces and success metrics to shipping polished, accessible workflows. They will collaborate with PM and Engineering to clarify problems, design end-to-end flows, and contribute to the design system.

Responsibilities

• Discover & Define: Partner with PM + Eng to clarify problems, define scope, and set measurable outcomes
• Lead discovery: interviews, task analyses, field / context research; turn insights into strategy
• Anticipate edge cases, constraints, and operational realities early
• Design & Deliver: Design end-to-end flows across web and mobile, from low-fi to high-fi
• Prototype quickly (Figma, lightweight code when helpful) and validate with users
• Drive implementation with engineering and run final design reviews before launch
• Systematize: Contribute to our design system (Figma + component library), ensuring scalable, accessible patterns
• Document rationale and decisions so teams can move faster with confidence
• Collaborate & Influence: Build trusted relationships with PM, Eng, and CS; facilitate alignment in ambiguity
• Communicate clearly to drive decisions and tell compelling product stories
• Share feedback generously; help raise the quality bar across teams

Requirements

• You’ve led complex product design projects before — from early discovery through to launch — and influenced product direction, not just executed on it
• Your portfolio shows systems thinking, crisp UX, and an ability to simplify complex workflows
• You bring depth in user research and product judgment: you know how to frame problems, validate solutions, and connect design choices to measurable outcomes
• You’re fluent in Figma and comfortable building and evolving design systems; you can prototype at multiple fidelities to communicate ideas
• You’re a clear communicator who can tell compelling product stories and align cross-functional partners
• You thrive in ambiguity and bring proactive ownership to defining problem spaces and solutions
• You’re collaborative and humble — you elevate teammates, welcome feedback, and contribute to design culture

Key Skills

• Bonus: experience in civic tech, climate tools, or other high-stakes, data-heavy domains

Benefits

• High bar. We sweat details in flows, interactions, and storytelling because great design builds trust.
• We're mission-driven. Our mission orients our business strategy and pushes us to work with a sense of urgency.
• We're a small team. As a member of our growing team, you will quickly become an invaluable part of our organization and have a meaningful impact on our business and technical direction.
• We're a remote-first organization, with offices in NYC, San Francisco and Portland, ME. Many members of our team work remotely, but we have small offices in San Francisco and Portland, ME.
• We offer schedule flexibility for all of our employees and ask for accountability in return.
• We want you to be happy and healthy. Forerunner offers competitive compensation, health/vision/dental coverage, and commuter benefits.
• We also have a quarterly wellness reimbursement so that you can have flexibility in defining what “health” means to you.