Product Designer (1099 Contract) | Active Secret Clearance Required

redcellpartners; United States; Remote; USD 83,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage for employee & family

14 weeks parental leave

Unlimited PTO with management approval

Professional development support

Job summary

RedcellPartners is seeking a product designer to own the end-to-end design of complex software used in government or operational settings. You will collaborate with engineers, partners, and subject-matter experts to clarify dense information and deliver accessible interfaces while contributing to design-system development and shipped interfaces.

The role requires 4–5 years of product design experience, strong Figma skills, and a background in enterprise products.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years of product design experience shipping software.
• Strong Figma skills with components, variants, auto layout and variables.
• Experience building and maintaining a design system including tokens and APIs.
• Background designing complex information-dense enterprise, analytics, logistics, or operational products.
• Working knowledge of front-end concepts such as components, state, responsive behavior, and design tokens.
• Experience using research, discovery, or competitive analysis to guide product decisions with strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Responsibilities

• Frame user problems and carry features through flows, wireframes, polished interface designs, and implementation review.
• Design data-heavy experiences such as tables, maps, timelines, simulation results, and workflows for users with different roles.
• Extend a shared design system by creating components, tokens, and variants, and coordinate their implementation with front-end engineers.
• Conduct focused research with users and subject-matter experts, adapting to access constraints and turning findings into useful team artifacts.
• Design authentication, permissions, empty and error states, and interactions that support auditability.
• Build accessibility into designs to meet WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 requirements; present design rationale and participate in critique.

Skills

Product design experience

Figma

Design system

Enterprise products

Frontend concepts

Research & collaboration

Security clearance

Job description

Role overview

Own product design from discovery through implementation for complex software used in government or operational settings. Working closely with engineers, product partners, and subject-matter experts, you will make dense information and multi-role workflows clear, usable, and accessible, while contributing directly to both design-system development and shipped interfaces. This is a 1099 contract expected to require 40 hours per week; an active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship are required.

Responsibilities

• Frame user problems and carry features through flows, wireframes, polished interface designs, and implementation review.
• Design data-heavy experiences such as tables, maps, timelines, simulation results, and workflows for users with different roles.
• Extend a shared design system by creating components, tokens, and variants, and coordinate their implementation with front-end engineers.
• Conduct focused research with users and subject-matter experts, adapting to access constraints and turning findings into useful team artifacts.
• Design authentication, permissions, empty and error states, and interactions that support auditability.
• Build accessibility into designs to meet WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 requirements; present design rationale and participate in critique.

Requirements

• Four to five years of product design experience shipping software, supported by a portfolio showing process and decisions as well as final work.
• Strong Figma skills, including components, variants, auto layout, and variables.
• Experience building and maintaining a design system, including tokens, component APIs, documentation, version changes, and alignment between design and code.
• Background designing complex, information-dense enterprise, analytics, logistics, or operational products.
• Working knowledge of front-end concepts such as components, state, responsive behavior, and design tokens.
• Experience using research, discovery, or competitive analysis to guide product decisions, with strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Active Secret clearance and U.S. citizenship.

Nice to have

• A higher-level clearance, experience with defense, government, regulated, or compliance-heavy products, or experience contributing code to a design system.

Benefits and work setup

• The source describes employer-paid health coverage for employees and families, 14 weeks of paid parental leave, and unlimited paid time off with management approval.
• Optional retirement savings, flexible spending, and equity incentives are available, along with professional development and mental health support.