Senior UX Designer

Summary

Join ActBlue as a Senior UX Designer to lead the end-to-end design of products and features. Collaborate with UX research, product management, engineering, and internal teams. Partner with data teams to understand user behaviors and needs. Deliver pixel-perfect user flows and iterate quickly based on feedback. Strategically partner with product and engineering teams to influence the roadmap. Contribute to the Design System and follow organizational design principles. Present work in team crits and provide constructive feedback. This full-time, remote, salaried position offers a competitive salary, flexible work schedule, unlimited time off, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• 3-5+ years of experience leading end-to-end delivery of products, starting from ideation and discovery to pixel-perfect mocks
• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed, cross functional teams on complex product features
• Experience leading discovery, ideation and user research sessions and incorporating those findings into your design process to inform UX decisions
• Experience working with cross-functional teams on product ideas and pitches, including the iterative design and delivery of MVPs
• Experience building a 0-1 product
• Experience building in a highly regulated or complex space
• User-first approach to UX design, grounding decisions in research and data
• Experience working through ambiguity and gathering context in new environments to actively contribute
• Experience working in a culture of feedback and approach conflict with curiosity
• Dedication to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, and don’t just welcome, but center and amplify, backgrounds and points of view that differ from yours
• Passionate about progressive causes and politics and want to spend your time making a meaningful impact by doing what you do best

Responsibilities

• Partner with UX research and data teams to develop and foster an understanding of the behaviors, needs, and motivations of our users to inform UX decisions
• Identify opportunities for research to further inform the work of your product area
• Deliver pixel-perfect user flows at various stages, including at the ideation and research phases, with limited guidance. Iterate quickly given new information like technical constraints, additional requirements or peer feedback
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams through each stage of the design process to define timelines, trade-offs, constraints, etc
• Be a strategic partner with your partners in product management and engineering to influence the roadmap for a dedicated engineering team
• Utilize and contribute to our Design System through project work in exploring and delivering solutions for components and styles
• Follow our organizational design principles and industry best practices keeping the best interests of the user at the forefront
• Participate in UX team crits by presenting work for team feedback and providing constructive feedback to others
• May support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards

Preferred Qualifications

Experience with our design and tech stacks and are not afraid to dive in with curiosity to areas beyond your comfort

Benefits

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times