Senior Product Designer - AI-Driven GovTech Impact

Kaizen; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Life insurance

One Medical membership

Fertility & family-building support

401(k) with company match

Parental leave

Unlimited PTO

NYC office stipend

Gym membership reimbursement

Job summary

Kaizen is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape user experiences for government staff and the public. You’ll drive end-to-end design, work with engineers, and help define product strategy through prototyping for sales and deployments.

You’ll wear many hats across design, prototyping, and marketing assets while collaborating with leadership to evolve the brand. This is a hybrid NYC role requiring in-office presence several days per week.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of product design experience, preferably in a high-growth startup or agency.
• Experience designing administrative tooling.
• Experience designing scalable SaaS products for desktop and mobile.
• Proficiency in Figma for design and prototyping.
• Experience in client services and direct customer collaboration.
• Familiar with AI tooling like ChatGPT, Figma Make, Lovable.

Responsibilities

• Lead design work end‑to‑end, including research, documenting requirements, and prototypes.
• Collaborate with engineering to bring designs to life.
• Contribute to Canopy, the internal design system.
• Partner with implementation team on deployments and roadmaps.
• Support marketing with prototypes and demos for RFPs.

Skills

Product design

Figma

AI tooling

Client services

SaaS design

Desktop & mobile

Tools

Cursor

Figma Make

Lovable

Job description

Kaizen is seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape user experiences for government staff and the public. You’ll drive end-to-end design, work with engineers, and help define product strategy through prototyping for sales and deployments.

You’ll wear many hats across design, prototyping, and marketing assets while collaborating with leadership to evolve the brand. This is a hybrid NYC role requiring in-office presence several days per week.