Product Designer – Active Secret Clearance Required
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📋 Description
- Own feature design from discovery through shipped implementation, including problem framing, flows, wireframes, high-fidelity UI, and design QA
- Design complex data-dense tables, map and timeline views, simulation outputs, and multi-role workflows
- Contribute to and extend the @defcon/ui design system by building Figma components, defining tokens and variants, and partnering with engineering on React/TypeScript implementation
- Run lightweight discovery with subject-matter experts and end users within government access constraints
- Translate research into shared artifacts used by the team
- Design authentication flows, CAC/PIV, role-based access control, permissions, empty/error states, and audit-friendly interactions
- Meet WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 accessibility requirements
- Give and receive critique and present work to non-designers, customers, and program stakeholders
🎯 Requirements
- 4–5 years of product design experience shipping software, supported by a portfolio demonstrating process and decision-making
- Strong proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto-layout, and variables
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining a design system, including tokens, component APIs, documentation, version changes, deprecations, and coded-library alignment
- Experience designing complex, information-dense applications such as enterprise, analytics, logistics, or operational tools
- Working knowledge of front-end concepts including component structure, state, responsive behavior, and design tokens
- Experience using discovery, user research, or competitive analysis to inform design decisions
- Strong cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder management, storytelling, presentation, written, and asynchronous communication skills
- Ability to work independently and recognize when to seek guidance on complex architectural or system-scaling decisions
- Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship required
- Preferred: clearance above Secret, defense/government or regulated-product experience, React/TypeScript/CSS code contribution, map-based or scheduling/timeline UI experience, classified or air-gapped environment experience, and FedRAMP/IL5 familiarity
🏖️ Benefits
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
- Paid maternity and paternity leave for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available
- Mental health benefits available through [REDACTED]
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through [REDACTED]
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