Contract Product Designer – Enterprise Ops & Data

defcon; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

defcon is seeking a hands-on product designer to own end-to-end design for software addressing complex operational challenges. You will collaborate with engineers, product partners, subject-matter experts, and users from discovery to release, delivering information-rich interfaces and scalable design systems.

This 1099 independent contractor role requires 4–5 years shipping product designs, strong Figma skills, and experience with enterprise software.

Qualifications

• Four to five years of experience shipping product designs, with a portfolio showing process and decision-making.
• Strong Figma skills, including components, variants, auto layout, and variables.
• Experience designing complex, information-dense enterprise, analytics, logistics, or operational software.
• Working knowledge of front-end concepts such as component structure, state, responsive behavior, and design tokens.
• Experience applying research, discovery, or competitive analysis to product decisions.
• Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Lead design from problem framing and user flows through wireframes, detailed interfaces, and design quality checks.
• Create clear experiences for dense data, maps, timelines, simulation results, and workflows used by people in different roles.
• Build and maintain design system components, tokens, variants, and documentation in partnership with front-end engineers.
• Conduct lightweight discovery with subject-matter experts and end users, and turn findings into useful team artifacts.
• Design access, permissions, authentication, empty and error states, and interactions that support audit needs.
• Present design decisions, take part in critique, and build alignment with technical and nontechnical partners.

Skills

Figma

Design systems

UX design

Stakeholder communication

Portfolio

Tools

React

TypeScript

CSS

Job description

defcon is seeking a hands-on product designer to own end-to-end design for software addressing complex operational challenges. You will collaborate with engineers, product partners, subject-matter experts, and users from discovery to release, delivering information-rich interfaces and scalable design systems.

This 1099 independent contractor role requires 4–5 years shipping product designs, strong Figma skills, and experience with enterprise software.