Senior Product Designer – Clearance Required

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⚔️ Virginia – Remote

⚔️ Virginia – Remote

💵 $180k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🎨 Product Designer (UI/UX)

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Defcon AI

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11 - 50 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🚗 Transport

📦 Logistics

Artificial Intelligence • Transport • Logistics

Defcon AI is a company focused on transforming logistics and supply chain operations using AI-driven technologies. The company addresses disruptions caused by natural disasters, unanticipated events, and opponents through sophisticated software modeling and intelligent agents. Defcon AI aims to integrate next-generation technologies within logistics and decision-making processes to improve response planning in complex and contested environments. Positioned at the convergence of AI, mobility, and logistics, Defcon AI collaborates with partners to provide efficient, reliable, and data-driven solutions tailored to specific needs. The company is committed to enhancing resilience and efficiency in the logistics sector.

📋 Description

• Own complex product experiences from discovery through delivery for a new AI-enabled decision-support system • Run structured discovery with end users through interviews, shadowing, and workflow observation • Produce current-state and future-state workflow maps • Translate mission and operational needs into interaction designs • Deliver an interactive clickable prototype covering prioritized queues, enrichment panels, record history, and dashboards • Design the user workspace end to end, including queues, unified record views, evidence and enrichment panels, decision flows, record history, trend views, and operational dashboards • Apply and contribute to a reusable design system • Design for high-volume, repetitive work with keyboard efficiency, scannability, minimal context switching, and low error rates • Design accessible interfaces meeting Section 508 and WCAG requirements • Present model recommendations, confidence, and supporting evidence • Make uncertainty and evidence gaps visible • Design review, override, audit, and traceability views • Partner with product and engineering from problem definition through launch • Work directly with front-end engineers and improve the design handoff pipeline • Review builds and hold the quality bar through implementation • Present design rationale to stakeholders • Iterate using usage feedback, analytics, and acceptance-testing results • Support training and adoption materials • Partner with the existing designer • Establish repeatable research practices, reusable patterns, and cleaner engineering handoffs • Raise design quality through review and collaboration

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of product or UX design experience • Portfolio of shipped, complex applications used by people doing real work every day • End-to-end ownership of a comparable system, from discovery through a shipped, adopted interface • Ability to set design direction as the most senior designer, without design leadership above the role • An established discovery and delivery method that can be adapted immediately • Demonstrated experience designing data-dense, workflow-heavy enterprise interfaces, including role-based views, dashboards, data visualization, queues, and case or record views • Strong visual craft in layout, hierarchy, and typography • Direct user research experience, including interviewing and observing users • Ability to turn ambiguous problems into clear, usable solutions while balancing user, business, and technical needs • Strong prototyping ability in Figma or equivalent • Information architecture and design-system thinking • Comfort designing for expert users and learning unfamiliar domains • Ability to work efficiently with time-constrained subject-matter experts • Accessibility fluency with Section 508 and WCAG • Comfortable building design practices without an established design practice • Hands-on designer; this is not a design management role • Comfortable in a cross-functional agile product team • US Citizenship Required • Active US Top Secret clearance • CAC eligibility from the start • Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer sites, DEFCON AI HQ, and vendor facilities • Preferred: government-user, controlled-environment, review-queue, triage, AI/model-output, government accessibility, fixed-deliverable, front-end, enterprise/regulated-product, and design-system experience

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family • Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval • Flexible work environment where you manage your work day • 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave • Fully remote, results-based environment