Product Designer - US Government

Palantir; Washington; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Palantir is seeking a product designer to shape the user experience of our data-driven software platform. You will contribute to interaction and visual design across the product lifecycle, while prototyping and validating ideas with stakeholders and engineers.

You will collaborate closely with product and frontend teams, performing user research to inform design decisions and ensuring alignment with frontend constraints and capabilities.

Qualifications

• Experience in interaction and visual design for products.
• Ability to conduct user research to inform design decisions.
• Prototyping experience to communicate ideas and validate choices.
• Collaborate with product and engineers to implement designs.
• Familiarity with frontend technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript).

Responsibilities

• Interaction and visual design across the product lifecycle.
• Conduct informal and formal user research to guide direction.
• Prototype to communicate designs and validate decisions.
• Partner with engineers to realize design ideas and build features.
• Maintain awareness of how interfaces are built with frontend tech.

Skills

Interaction design

Visual design

User research

Prototyping

Collaboration with engineers

Frontend familiarity

Tools

Mockup tools

Job description

A World-Changing Company

Palantir builds the world's leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more.

The Role

The Palantir Design Team is responsible for the human experience of using our software. Our team is growing rapidly, but we're committed to creating a tight-knit team environment that fosters trust, integrity, empathy, and growth. We work together in realizing a shared product vision, and regularly give feedback and critique to each other.

Designing at Palantir is a varied experience. On a given day, you might be: leading a design sprint for your product team; designing a micro-interaction to make a complex analytical task feel simple; and/or advocating for UX consistency by creating flexible, reusable UI components.

Core Responsibilities

• Interaction and visual design. As a product designer, you'll be involved at every stage of design work. You'll help define early product concepts, flesh out the high-level workflow and micro-interactions of a feature, and execute on a crisp and effective visual design. You should have experience with mockup and prototyping tools.
• Userresearch. We frequently do informal user research, and value people who can be flexible with research processes and methodologies to achieve the right outcome.
• Prototyping. You will prototype, both to communicate your designs and validate your decisions.
• Partnering with engineers. We work closely with product and forward deployed engineers to realize our design ideas. You'll treat engineers as partners and collaborate with them to prototype and build out products.
• Awareness of how software interfaces are built. Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Typescript is appreciated. You don't need to be an expert-just fluent enough to collaborate with engineers, and know what's possible with frontend technologies. Resources and mentorship are available to designers who want to learn more.

Designers at Palantir have great autonomy over their work, so a wide skill set is necessary. However, many designers on the team are also passionate experts in one area. You might be the kind of designer who ships code every week, or the kind of designer who shares detailed user research findings with your team.