Lead Product Designer [AQ-19624]

Aquent; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Subsidized health, vision, and dental

Paid sick leave

Retirement plans with a match

Free online training through AquentGym

Job summary

Aquent collaborates with a prominent organization to transform high-stakes care decisions by empowering families and providers through innovative design. You will lead end-to-end product design for provider workstreams, shaping workflows and experiences that scale across internal and external users.

You will partner with product, engineering, research, marketing, operations, and leadership to frame problems, set success criteria, and guide releases.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product design experience across complex web, SaaS, marketplace, CRM, internal-tool, partner-portal, or operations-facing products.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership from ambiguous problem framing through shipped product, including work that influenced product strategy or raised the quality bar across multiple workstreams.
• Excellent interaction design, systems thinking, information architecture, and product judgment.
• Demonstrated curiosity and hands-on experimentation with AI tools in the design or product development process.
• Ability to explain not just what you designed, but how you used evidence, tools, prototypes, constraints, and judgment to make better decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end product design for provider workstreams, from discovery and journey mapping through prototypes and production-ready designs.
• Translate intricate marketplace, partner, and operational challenges into clear, intuitive workflows for internal and external users.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, Operations, Sales, and business leaders to define problem framing, success criteria, and release scope.
• Create workflows that instill trust, provide clarity, speed, and high usability for users in critical information contexts.
• Mentor and raise the bar for other designers through critique, pattern quality, and storytelling.
• Experiment with AI tools to explore product directions and prototype workflows, accelerating design quality.

Skills

Product design

Interaction design

Systems thinking

Information architecture

AI experimentation

Design storytelling

Tools

Figma

AI tools

Prototyping tools

Job description

Aquent, a leading talent solutions partner, is collaborating with a prominent organization dedicated to transforming high-stakes care decisions. This organization is at the forefront of its industry, committed to empowering families and providers through crucial life stages with innovative solutions.

What You Will Do

• Lead end-to-end product design for provider workstreams, from initial discovery and journey mapping through prototypes and production-ready designs. This includes provider-facing products, partner workflows, lead quality, conversion acceleration, account growth, and operational capabilities that empower providers to serve families more effectively.
• Translate intricate marketplace, partner, and operational challenges into clear, intuitive workflows for both internal and external users.
• Collaborate closely with Product, Engineering, Research, Marketing, Operations, Sales, and business leaders to define problem framing, establish success criteria, navigate tradeoffs, and determine release scope.
• Create workflows that instill trust, provide clarity, ensure speed, and offer high usability in environments where accurate information and confident next steps are paramount for users.
• Guide design decisions using insights from research, analytics, provider conversations, partner feedback, frontline team input, product data, and broader business context.
• Pinpoint areas where improved provider workflows can significantly enhance customer outcomes and business performance.
• Clearly articulate design rationale to product teams, engineering partners, marketing partners, operational stakeholders, and senior leaders, explaining not just what should ship, but why it matters.
• Apply and extend shared design patterns to ensure product surfaces are coherent across domains. Distinguish between provider-specific design needs and reusable system patterns, contributing to shared foundations including interaction patterns, information architecture, accessibility, UX writing, and craft standards.
• Mentor and raise the bar for other designers through constructive critique, promoting pattern quality, and strong product storytelling, without requiring direct people-management responsibility.
• Embrace a builder’s mindset, using lightweight prototypes, AI-assisted workflows, and scrappy experiments to make ideas tangible earlier. Experiment with AI tools to explore product directions, prototype workflows, synthesize inputs, pressure-test assumptions, and improve the speed and quality of design work.
• Help the team understand where AI meaningfully improves the experience, and where human judgment, trust, and clarity remain paramount. Share your learnings with design peers and stakeholders to foster collective growth.

Required Skills & Experience

You are a high-agency builder who thrives in ambiguity, taking ownership and driving initiatives without needing perfect direction. You skillfully leverage design, data, and AI-native tools to accelerate team progress and elevate the quality of work. Your passion lies in serving users, achieving business outcomes, ensuring product quality, and maintaining team momentum. While possessing strong design judgment, you are adaptable in your process, knowing precisely when to prototype, simplify, advocate for system patterns, or make pragmatic decisions to move forward. You bring robust interaction design, information architecture, systems thinking, and product judgment to complex domains, enabling you to work across provider-facing workflows, partner tools, marketing touchpoints, and internal systems, all while maintaining a holistic view of the broader marketplace journey.

• 7+ years of product design experience on complex web, SaaS, marketplace, CRM, internal-tool, partner-portal, or operations-facing products.
• A strong portfolio demonstrating end-to-end ownership from ambiguous problem framing through shipped product, including work that influenced product strategy or raised the quality bar across multiple workstreams.
• Excellent interaction design, systems thinking, information architecture, and product judgment.
• Demonstrated curiosity and hands-on experimentation with AI tools in the design or product development process.
• Ability to explain not just what you designed, but how you used evidence, tools, prototypes, constraints, and judgment to make better decisions.
• Experience working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments where ownership, pragmatism, and cross-functional trust are highly valued.
• Strong Figma skills and the ability to communicate design intent through flows, prototypes, specifications, and crisp design storytelling.
• Comfort partnering deeply with Product Managers, Engineers, Researchers, Marketing, operational stakeholders, Sales, and senior leaders to align teams around clear design direction.

About Aquent Talent

Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match.

• subsidized health, vision, and dental plans
• paid sick leave
• retirement plans with a match
• free online training through Aquent Gymnasium

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We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.

We’re about creating an inclusive environment-one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.