Senior UX/UI Designer
Civic Eagle
Civic Eagle helps organizations more effectively advocate for public policy changes with a bleeding-edge product that is backed by our proprietary civic data and analytics. We are a diverse team guided by a vision to improve democracy and increase transparency. We provide services to hundreds of public policy advocacy organizations, Fortune 1000 corporations, and millions of people looking to engage in democracy.
We've recently raised our $10M Series A round: this is an exciting opportunity to join a fast-growing company backed by blue-chip investors.
We’re looking for a talented Senior UI/UX Designer to join Civic Eagle! You’ll be coming on board as a foundational member of the team to improve and grow the product’s design foundations at a stable and well-funded start-up with an exciting growth trajectory. This is an individual contributor role reporting to the Director of Product with the opportunity to grow into leadership as we grow.
This will be a career-defining and memorable experience for you if you:
- Believe in our mission of improving democracy and increasing transparency
- Want to grow your career rapidly within a high-growth startup environment
- Thrive on problem-solving and coming up with solutions that scale
What you’ll do:
- Design end-to-end workflows for high-quality implementation and intuitive user experiences
- Improve and grow the product’s design foundations and work cross-functionally to establish a design system
- Drive guidelines and best practices, approaching design from a user's perspective
- Create detailed wireframes and design specs of intricate user flows, including early-stage concepts to facilitate discussion, feedback and alignment
- Rapidly produce multiple concepts and prototypes; knowing when to apply pixel-perfect attention to detail, and when to make low-fidelity sketches and prototypes
- Drive vision for product language and content across the product
- Conduct user interviews and research as necessary
- Collaborate closely with engineers and product managers around user requirements and technical specifications, and also with customer experience managers, researchers, marketing or other stakeholders as necessary
You will be a strong candidate for this role if you have:
- A Bachelor's Degree
- 3-5 years of design experience at a leading SaaS company, working on b2b products or complex tools (i.e. internal tools, dashboards, etc.) over multiple release cycles
- A portfolio demonstrating experience with end-to-end UX processes and workflows, measurably effective designs, creative problem solving, and dedication to understanding users’ needs
- Expert skills in design and prototyping tools (i.e. Figma, Sketch, Photoshop, Illustrator)
- Experience using, building, and maintaining intuitive and scalable design systems and design pattern libraries
- Experience working closely with engineers to deliver browser-based software products
- Working knowledge of React Native, Redux (frontend) and Node.js (backend) is a plus
- Experience with evaluative research methods, including familiarity with product analytics tools (i.e. Amplitude)
- Expertise in accessibility and usability standards
- Are persistent about measuring, learning from, and adjusting work based on new information and learnings
- Are an exceptional, cross-functional collaborator who demonstrates high empathy, curiosity, and understanding and can use design artifacts to effectively build alignment and communicate ideas
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, agile environment with multiple projects in progress
- Are able to work within continental US timezones (PST, MST, CST, EST) and travel to US-based locations 4-6 times per year
Compensation
- $112k to $150k depending on experience and location.
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family*
- High-trust remote working environment
- Flexible work hours - unlimited Your Time Off (YTO)
- Paid family leave after 1 year with the company
- Professional development stipend
- Monthly remote work stipend
About us
Civic Eagle is on a mission to use technology to promote better democratic outcomes. It starts with providing better access to information about the policies that impact us. We believe that by making public policy more accessible and transparent, we can start to make changes to the way that communities and organizations advocate for themselves. We envision a world where people are heard and communities are genuinely served. We have the unique opportunity to use today’s advancements in technology to make this a reality. We'd love for you to join us on this mission!
What do our products do?
- Surface all proposed laws across state and federal governments
- Enable users to track, tag, and annotate proposed laws, so they can take action
- Notify users about changes and related proposals that they might otherwise miss
- Facilitate collaboration within teams and organizations to make advocacy more powerful
- Provide a foundation of open civic data to academics, journalists, and the public
Commitment to Equal Opportunity
Civic Eagle is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable work environment. Individuals seeking employment at Civic Eagle are considered without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition, ancestry, military or veteran status, physical or mental abilities, social-economic background, political affiliation, thinking styles, life experiences, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law.