Code for America

Staff UX Designer

Code for America

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $128,945 - $157,850 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

React

About the role

  • Code for America is building products and digital services that transform the way government delivers services to communities in need.
  • You’ll work with a multidisciplinary team of designers, researchers, engineers, and policy experts to analyze problems, and create simple digital solutions to help people connect with safety net benefits, file their taxes online, and access government services in an accessible and inclusive way.
  • The Design team at Code for America is building a radically better future, starting today. We believe design can create the conditions for generational, systemic change while also delivering immediate material value to communities. We design with, not for, impacted communities, and we believe that good design serves everyone with respect. In this role, you’ll be a key part of a talented design team working towards this vision together. You can read more about our design principles here.
  • In this role you will initially contribute to team culture, and act as a craft leader, defining best practices for doing design with respect and dignity. You will also be responsible for the strategy, development, and maintenance of our code-based design system- collaborating closely with colleagues in Design, Engineering, Content, Product, and Client Success.
  • This role will report to the Senior Director of User Experience and is expected to travel no more than 10% of the time.
  • Code for America is based in California and can employ those who reside full-time within the United States. This is a remote position.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in product, interaction, and/or UX Design
  • Deep understanding of accessibility principles, semantic HTML, and design-to-code handoff
  • A portfolio of relevant design work with strong examples of your work, your design process, and your role
  • Comfortable working in agile, iterative software development practices
  • Able to manage multiple high-priority initiatives, including early-stage product strategy as well as delivery of tactical and incremental design improvements
  • Ability to collaborate and facilitate design discussion and workshops in a remote working environment
  • Experience mentoring designers and communicating the value of design to stakeholders and cross-functional partners
  • High level of professionalism when communicating with clients, partners, and users
  • 3+ years managing or contributing to a design system at scale in a cross-functional setting
  • Experience owning a system roadmap and leading multi-disciplinary teams through discovery, build, and rollout phases
  • Understanding of multi-brand design system documentation needs
  • Familiarity with localization, UX writing, or structured content systems
  • Cross-functional familiarity with component libraries (React preferred), design token tools (e.g. Style Dictionary), and documentation platforms
  • Proficient creating and maintaining component libraries in Figma as well as proficiency with industry tools like Adobe Creative Suite, Mural, Trello, Github, etc.
  • Comfortable working in agile design/development methodologies
  • Experience in civic service design, civic tech, or social impact design in the public sector
  • Fluency in one or more languages other than English