Staff Product Designer

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Key Responsibilities

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  Own end-to-end design for complex, high-impact product areas that serve candidates and elected officials across the country.
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  Drive design strategy and execution for features that bridge our Win (campaign tools) and Serve (constituent services) product lines.
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  Evolve our design system, creating patterns and components that enable the team to ship consistently at speed.
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  Elevate our brand expression across product touchpoints, ensuring every interaction reflects our mission while remaining accessible to all users.
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  Pioneer AI-powered design workflows that accelerate our team's velocity while maintaining craft excellence.
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  Conduct deep user research with candidates, elected officials and citizens to discover what a truly representative democracy experience looks like.
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  Implement design changes directly in our codebase using tools like Claude Code and Cursor, speeding up engineering dependencies and iteration cycles.
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  Mentor peer designers on craft excellence, systems thinking, and user research methodologies.
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  Collaborate closely with engineering and product leadership to ensure our most complex features ship on time and exceed user expectations.
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  Reports to the Chief Product Officer.
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  You have experience designing for diverse user bases with varying levels of technical sophistication.
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  You've worked on products with civic, social impact, or mission-driven focus.
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  You've contributed to open-source design systems or have experience with design ops.
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  You’ve studied, worked, or volunteered in politics, civics, or democracy reform.
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  You’re tired of sitting on the sidelines while democracy fails to meet its potential – and you’re ready to use your passion for design to act.

Requirements

• You’re up for the audacious challenge of driving money out of politics and democratizing democracy.
• You have 6+ years of product design experience with at least 2+ years in a staff or principal-level individual contributor role at a consumer internet company or consumer-quality SaaS company.
• You've led the design of complex, multi-stakeholder products from 0-1 and have experience scaling features to serve thousands of users.
• You're highly skilled in both responsive web design and native mobile applications, with a portfolio showcasing systematic thinking and craft excellence.
• You're highly proficient with design tools like Figma and comfortable implementing design changes in code using tools like Cursor or similar.
• You have strong AI fluency, using AI tools to accelerate your design workflow beyond basic content generation.
• You have deep experience with user research methodologies and can synthesize insights across diverse user segments.
• You have exceptional brand sensibility and visual taste, with the ability to elevate our product's aesthetic while maintaining accessibility and simplicity.
• You've built or significantly contributed to design systems that enabled team velocity while maintaining product coherence.
• You communicate complex design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders to find agreement around difficult trade-offs.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-paced startup environments where you need to balance speed with quality.

Perks & Benefits