Senior UX Designer, Design Systems

ActBlue

Senior UX Designer I at ActBlue leading discovery and design of products and features, contributing to design systems and collaborating with internal teams.

Posted 5/19/2026full-timeRemote • Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $141,906 - $164,145 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Conceptualize and create design solutions that bring clarity, cohesion, and visual impact across product experiences — from early exploration through detailed execution.
Partner with UX research and data teams to ground design decisions in user behaviors, needs, and motivations.
Translate concepts into cohesive, user-centered designs, balancing speed with craft and structure with storytelling.
Contribute to information architecture and influence best practices that raise the standard of design across the team.
Participate actively in team crits, providing constructive feedback and fostering a strong design culture.
May support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standards.
Actively build and apply AI fluency in your design practice, contributing to shared workflows and helping teammates explore how AI can support faster, more consistent design outcomes.
Collaborate closely with product, engineering, and internal teams to translate creative direction into practical, user-centered solutions.
Communicate design intent effectively through visuals, prototypes, and storytelling that align teams and stakeholders.
Lead through influence — fostering alignment, elevating work quality, and helping peers think through design challenges with clarity.
Work with cross-functional partners to define timelines, trade-offs, and constraints throughout the design process.
Contribute to component specs, token definitions, and library maintenance in collaboration with the UX team, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the system.
Identify gaps and opportunities within the system, helping define patterns that support product growth and scalability.
Partner with front-end engineers to ensure specs translate cleanly into production and the token pipeline stays reliable.
Support documentation and guidelines that enable adoption across design and development, including versioning and deprecation as the system evolves.
Develop fluency with AI-powered design tools, applying them to generate and validate on-system designs using the design system as a reliable foundation.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3–5 years of experience leading end-to-end delivery of products, starting from ideation and discovery to pixel-perfect mocks.
Experience working with remote, geographically distributed, cross-functional teams on complex product features.
Experience leading discovery, ideation, and user research sessions.
Some hands-on exposure to design systems work — contributing to components, tokens, or documentation.
Strong design tooling skills (e.g. Figma), including component libraries and an interest in deepening your Variables and token workflow knowledge.
Familiarity with token architecture and an eagerness to learn how design tokens connect to engineering implementation.
You bring a user-first approach to UX design, grounding decisions in research and data.
You're a strong storyteller with experience presenting to audiences at multiple levels of the organization.
Experience mentoring junior designers.
Familiarity with AI-powered design tools and genuine curiosity about how they can be grounded in a strong design system — or excitement to develop that fluency as the space evolves.
You're comfortable working in a culture of feedback and approach conflict with curiosity.
You're dedicated to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, and don't just welcome, but center and amplify, backgrounds and points of view that differ from yours.
You care about progressive causes and politics and want to spend your time making a meaningful impact by doing what you do best.
You're comfortable with our design and tech stacks and are not afraid to dive in with curiosity to areas beyond your comfort.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability
Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees
Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

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Hard Skills & Tools

UX designinformation architecturedesign systemsuser researchcomponent librariesdesign tokensprototypingstorytellingAI-powered design toolsvisual design

Soft Skills

collaborationmentoringcommunicationfeedback culturecuriosityinclusivityleadershipproblem-solvingstorytellinguser-first approach