Lead Product (UX) Designer

Mark43; Elm (PA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Mark43 in the United States is seeking a Lead Product Designer to own a critical area of the product portfolio and partner with Product and Engineering to decide which problems to solve. You will translate the needs of first responders into thoughtful, dispatch-ready software across desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms.

As a design leader, you will shape the product design culture, contribute to design systems, and influence decisions across the organization.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional product design experience, with ownership of shipped software products.
• Ability to lead design for a substantial product area, set direction, and drive from discovery to shipped outcomes.
• Excellent interaction and visual design skills with a high bar for craftsmanship.

Responsibilities

• Set design direction for a critical product area and define a long-term vision.
• Balance user needs, technical constraints, business priorities, and long-term strategy.
• Design across environments and devices, from dispatch workstations to mobile apps.
• Contribute to design systems, raise craft, and mentor other designers.
• Present design rationale to customers and senior leaders, including tradeoffs.

Skills

Leadership

Product thinking

User research

Stakeholder collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Design

Tools

Figma

InVision

Job description

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time.

Mark43’s mission is to empower communities and their governments with modern technologies that improve the safety and quality of life for all. We build powerful, scalable, and elegant software that sets a new standard for the tools upon which our first responders rely. Our users are diverse, and we are therefore committed to embracing diversity of thought and experience within our team.

We are looking for a Lead Product Designer to take true ownership of a critical area of the Mark43 product portfolio. You will be the design leader for your product area, partnering closely with Product and Engineering to define not only how we solve problems, but which problems are most important to solve. You will deeply understand the needs of law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMS professionals, 911 dispatchers, and other first responders, translating those needs into thoughtful products that help people make critical decisions quickly and confidently.

While you will have clear ownership of a product area, your influence will extend across Mark43’s broader portfolio, including Computer Aided Dispatch, Records Management, Analytics and Insights, and mobile applications. You will also help shape how our Product Design team works, raising the bar for craft, discovery, systems thinking, and design leadership across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Set the design direction for a critical product area, identifying the most important customer and product problems to solve and creating a clear vision for how the experience should evolve over time.
• Made a difficult product tradeoff with your cross-functional partners, balancing user needs, technical constraints, business priorities, and long-term product strategy while advocating for the strongest possible customer experience.
• Designed across environments and devices, from multi-panel dispatch workstations to in-vehicle laptops, tablets, and mobile applications, thinking holistically about how information and interactions should work across an ecosystem.
• Raised the quality of design beyond your immediate work, providing thoughtful critique, identifying opportunities for greater consistency, contributing to our design system and patterns, and helping other designers navigate challenging problems.
• Presented a product vision or design recommendation to customers and senior leaders, clearly articulating the problem, your point of view, the tradeoffs considered, and the rationale behind your recommendation.
• Explored how AI and emerging technologies can meaningfully improve public safety workflows, both by incorporating new tools into the design process and by shaping responsible, useful AI-powered experiences within our products.
• You might have refined a tricky interaction in Figma, reviewed an implementation with Engineering, cleaned up edge cases, or worked through the less glamorous details required to turn a strong concept into an exceptional shipped product.
• You see yourself as accountable for the quality and impact of the product, not simply the design deliverable.
• You create alignment, give thoughtful feedback, share context freely, and help teams make stronger decisions rather than treating design as a function that operates in isolation.
• You can create structure where there is ambiguity, make thoughtful decisions with incomplete information, and help others move forward with confidence.
• You balance exceptional product quality with pragmatism and understand that great design ultimately needs to make a meaningful difference for the people using it.

Qualifications

• We’re looking for a Lead Product Designer with 10+ years of professional product design experience, including significant experience designing and shipping complex enterprise software. 10+ years of professional product design experience, with a portfolio demonstrating significant ownership and impact on shipped software products
• A track record of leading design for a substantial product area, including setting direction, prioritizing opportunities, and driving work from early discovery through shipped outcomes
• Strong product judgment and the ability to move comfortably between customer needs, product strategy, interaction design, systems thinking, and detailed execution
• Deep experience with qualitative and quantitative research and the ability to turn customer insights into clear product decisions
• Excellent interaction and visual design skills, with a high bar for product craftsmanship
• The ability to communicate complex design decisions clearly and persuasively to customers, peers, and senior leadership
• Experience in public safety, law enforcement, fire, EMS, or other mission-critical software is a plus, as is experience designing for situational awareness, maps, responsive experiences, native iOS or Android applications, multimodal interactions, or AI/ML-powered products.

Our Product & Design team builds technology used in some of the most consequential moments in our communities. Your work will directly influence the tools public safety professionals rely on to serve those communities, and you will have meaningful ownership over how those products evolve.

Mark43 is a remote-friendly environment, with offices in New York, Boston, and Manchester, UK. We value ideas over ego, embrace diversity of thought, and want our team members to have the ownership and support they need to do the best work of their careers.

Before applying to a remote role, please ensure that you are able to perform the position in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift.

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