Skylight

Staff/Principal Product Designer

United States · Principal · Full-time

No sponsorship$90k-$125kDetected 47 days ago

UX ResearchAccessibilityProduct StrategyBusiness DevelopmentResearchCommunicationMentoring

About the role

We're at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.
If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we'd love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.
Product designers are the primary user advocate on their team and engage in continuous research throughout the product life cycle.

Plan and conduct research that informs strategic product and design direction across multiple workstreams
Define end-to-end flows that incorporate well-thought-out information architecture, systems thinking, design principles, and common design patterns - including for secure, sensitive data exchanges
Create simple, elegant user interfaces and evolve existing visual systems with clear rationale
Uphold human-centered design principles and evangelize their value to stakeholders, engagement partners, and subject matter experts
Set design standards across the engagement and mentor other designers, raising the quality bar beyond your own work
A portfolio of end-to-end product design for complex products - from research through accessible UI - and the patterns, components, and standards that other teams adopt
Able to plan, synthesize, and share out generative and evaluative user research to inform product and design direction
Can define scalable, end-to-end interaction flows that incorporate key design principles, intentional information architecture, common design patterns, and accessibility
Can create simple, elegant, and thoughtful user interfaces through the implementation of visual design elements
Strong facilitation and communication skills, including the ability to make design decisions visible to stakeholders, partners, and engineers and drive alignment without losing the user

Ability to work successfully within a professional services environment (e.g., can communicate effectively with clients)
Ability to travel for work from time to time
Don't meet every qualification but think you can do the job?

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible.
After all, you deserve it!
To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority.
For a Product Designer at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:
Associate Product Designer: $90,000-$125,000
Product Designer I: $120,000-$140,000
Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development
Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases
Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more)
Dollar-for-dollar charity donation matching, up to $500 per year

Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance
Short-term and long-term disability insurance
Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account
Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period
Flexible paid-time-off policy (generally around 25 days per year), plus 11 paid federal holidays
Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.
Flexible, remote-friendly work environment

You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.

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