Senior UX Designer, Interaction Design

Washington, DCfull timeOn Site

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senior

$140k–$160k

H1B: no

Stateaffairs Senior UX Designer, Interaction Design at Stateaffairs responsible for defining the interaction layer across web and mobile pro-tools. The role involves inventing original interaction concepts and driving product strategy in partnership with Product and Engineering.

Responsibilities

Set the vision. Define what our pro-tools should become — cohesive interaction models and experiences that don’t exist in this category yet.
Invent, don’t assemble. Explore original interaction concepts through prototyping, rather than executing predetermined specs. We want the idea nobody else on the team would have had.
Own the interaction layer. Define and validate complex user flows, information architecture, and interaction models across multiple products on web and mobile.
Drive product strategy. Partner closely with Product and Engineering to turn vague, high-level goals into clear, shippable features — balancing speed-to-market with real user value.
Prototype for clarity. Use advanced Figma and AI prototyping to communicate functionality, interaction detail, and motion so engineers and stakeholders can feel the design, not just read about it.
Ship quality, then improve it. Work closely with engineers to ensure what launches matches the design intent, and use quantitative and qualitative data to make the next version better.
You’re energized by ambiguous, undefined problems and want to shape what gets built.

Qualification

You move fast5+ years designing software products

Required

You hold strong design opinions you can defend, and change them when the evidence says so.
You move fast, discard ideas without ego, and iterate toward an experience customers are eager to use.
You want to reshape how people (and companies) understand and interact with state governments.
5+ years designing software products, with real depth in interaction design and user experience.
A portfolio with a point of view — projects where you defined the problem worth solving, not just executed a brief.
Evidence you've set a design direction others followed, based on research, metrics and a strong intuition.
Fluency in Figma and modern prototyping (including AI tools), and comfort using quantitative and qualitative data to sharpen your work.