Senior Public Sector Product Designer — Forward-Deployed

Scale AI; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 210,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Retirement benefits

Learning stipend

Generous PTO

Commuter stipend

Job summary

Scale AI is hiring a Senior/Staff Product Designer to lead product design for Scale’s Public Sector business unit, focusing on planning, operations, or analytical workflows. This is a forward-deployed, on-site role partnering with product and working directly with government and defense customers to shape complex problems into deployable experiences.

You’ll design dashboards, mapping interfaces, alerts, and analytics tools, collaborating with engineers in code and supporting portfolio growth

Qualifications

• 10–15 years of design experience across settings and problems.
• Experience owning end-to-end B2B/enterprise product experiences at senior/staff level.
• Comfort with high ambiguity in government/enterprise projects.
• Experience designing complex workflow UI, dashboards, or data-heavy interfaces.
• Strong client-facing presence with senior stakeholders.
• Understanding of frontend handoff and collaboration with engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end design from undefined requirements to wireframes, mockups, and prototypes for a government/defense product experience.
• Partner with Product as a peer from early project stages.
• Work on-site with customers, building trust and socializing design decisions with stakeholders.
• Design for complex data-dense workflows: dashboards, mapping interfaces, alerts, and analytics tools.
• Collaborate with engineers on code to refine shipped experiences.
• Contribute design assets and interaction patterns to the broader platform.
• Help calibrate and grow the design team via portfolio reviews and interviews.
• Define requirements in ambiguous contexts and drive clarity with customers.

Skills

End-to-end design ownership

Enterprise product design

Ambiguity management

Complex UI for data/dashboards

Stakeholder engagement

Frontend collaboration

Travel willingness

Tools

Design system

Job description

Scale AI is hiring a Senior/Staff Product Designer to lead product design for Scale’s Public Sector business unit, focusing on planning, operations, or analytical workflows. This is a forward-deployed, on-site role partnering with product and working directly with government and defense customers to shape complex problems into deployable experiences.

You’ll design dashboards, mapping interfaces, alerts, and analytics tools, collaborating with engineers in code and supporting portfolio growth