Product Designer - Gov Ops (Secret Clearance) Contract

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

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.