Staff/Principal Product Designer

Lead the end-to-end design process from research to implementation to improve government public services. Set design standards across workstreams and mentor other designers to raise the overall quality of product delivery.

Responsibilities

• Plan and conduct research that informs strategic product and design direction across multiple workstreams
• Define end-to-end flows that incorporate well-thought-out information architecture, systems thinking, design principles, and common design patterns
• Create simple, elegant user interfaces and evolve existing visual systems with clear rationale
• Uphold human-centered design principles and evangelize their value to stakeholders, engagement partners, and subject matter experts
• Balance user and business needs within an agile working environment, and promote empathy for the public and government workers as we improve their tools

Requirements

• Portfolio of end-to-end product design for complex products
• Able to plan, synthesize, and share out generative and evaluative user research to inform product and design direction
• Can define scalable, end-to-end interaction flows that incorporate key design principles, intentional information architecture, common design patterns, and accessibility
• Can create simple, elegant, and thoughtful user interfaces through the implementation of visual design elements

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life and AD&D insurance
• Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
• Flexible paid-time-off policy
• 11 paid federal holidays
• Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options

Key Skills