Senior Product Designer Job Reston area,Virginia USA,IT/Tech

Job Description...

As a Senior Product Designer at the Client, you are a highly skilled, thoughtful, and user-centered practitioner with a passion for designing products and experiences that meet real user needs. You bring strong UI design craft, usability rigor, and systems thinking to complex, content-rich products across web and native mobile platforms.
You will work across one or more cross-functional teams and products, collaborating closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and other designers to shape, validate, and deliver high-quality design solutions. You are comfortable working independently on defined problem spaces while actively seeking feedback, alignment, and shared understanding with teammates and design leadership.
This role places a strong emphasis on UI design excellence, usability validation, inclusive design informed by accessibility standards, and working within robust design systems . You bring a structured, detail-oriented approach to your work, maintaining organized files, clear documentation, and consistent design artifacts, while following established team processes and offering thoughtful feedback to improve them.
You are an advocate for users and equitable experiences. As a creative problem solver, you identify patterns across large systems, balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, and bring clarity to complex challenges while staying focused on impact.

Product Discovery and Design Strategy

You contribute meaningfully to early-stage discovery and strategic design efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to explore opportunities and define direction.
Design Sprints & Envisioning. Contribute to design sprints, envisioning sessions, and workshops to explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and align teams around shared outcomes.
Insight-Driven Direction. Synthesize research, usability findings, behavioral data, and operational inputs into clear, insight-driven design directions.
Data-Informed Decisions. Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform, validate, and refine design decisions throughout the product lifecycle.
User Advocacy. Champion human-centered, inclusive design practices grounded in accessibility standards to ensure solutions meet diverse user needs.
Storytelling. Communicate design rationale, insights, and vision clearly through artifacts, narratives, and presentations.

Design Execution, Usability, and Systems

You translate strategy and insights into polished, production-ready design work that scales across platforms.
UI Design Excellence. Deliver high-quality UI designs with strong visual hierarchy, interaction clarity, and attention to detail across web and native mobile experiences.
Design Systems Expertise (Required).
Extensive experience working within robust web design systems and native mobile design systems (iOS and Android) .
Apply system components, patterns, and tokens accurately while identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Usability Testing & Validation. Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing to validate flows, components, and interactions and drive iterative design improvements.
Prototyping. Create prototypes at appropriate fidelity to explore, test, and communicate design solutions.
Accessibility & Plain Language. Design and test experiences using inclusive design principles informed by accessibility standards, applying plain language to support clarity and comprehension.
Responsive & Mobile Design. Design for responsive, mobile-first web experiences and native mobile applications.
AI-Assisted Design (Plus). Leverage AI tools to support ideation, prototyping, exploration, and iteration where appropriate, as an accelerator for design workflows not a replacement for user centered design thinking.
Tools. Use tools such as Figma, Figjam, Miro, Adobe

CC, Lovable, DScout, User Insight to design, prototype, test, and document work.

Collaboration and Communication
You are a strong cross-functional partner who contributes to effective, well-run delivery teams.

Cross-Functional Collaboration. Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders throughout discovery, design, and delivery.
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