Product Designer (1099 Contract) | Active Secret Clearance Required

Required

• 4–5 years of product design experience shipping software, supported by a portfolio that demonstrates your process and decision-making, not just final screens.
• Strong proficiency in Figma, including components, variants, auto-layout, and variables.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining a design system, including defining tokens and component APIs, documenting usage, communicating version changes, managing deprecations, and keeping the design library aligned with its coded implementation.
• Experience designing complex, information-dense applications, such as enterprise, analytics, logistics, or operational tools. Portfolios focused exclusively on consumer products may be less aligned with this role.
• Working knowledge of front-end concepts, including component structure, state, responsive behavior, and design tokens, with the ability to collaborate effectively with engineers and identify implementation drift.
• Experience using discovery, user research, or competitive analysis to inform design decisions and solve product problems.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills, including the ability to translate business goals into functional design solutions, explain trade-offs, and respectfully challenge decisions when needed.
• Ability to work independently through standard design challenges while recognizing when to seek guidance on complex architectural or system-scaling decisions.
• Strong storytelling, presentation, written, and asynchronous communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design rationale and build alignment across teams, time zones, and security boundaries.
• Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship required.