Accylerate ยท 1 day ago
Senior Product Designer (UI Focus)
Reston, VA
Contract
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
3+ years expAccylerate is seeking an experienced Senior Product Designer (UI Focus) who is highly skilled and user-centered. This role emphasizes UI design excellence and usability validation, requiring the candidate to work within robust design systems and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create user-centered design solutions.
Information Technology & Services
Responsibilities
You contribute meaningfully to early-stage discovery and strategic design efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to explore opportunities and define direction
Contribute to design sprints, envisioning sessions, and workshops to explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and align teams around shared outcomes
Synthesize research, usability findings, behavioral data, and operational inputs into clear, insight-driven design directions
Use qualitative and quantitative data to inform, validate, and refine design decisions throughout the product lifecycle
Champion human-centered, inclusive design practices grounded in accessibility standards to ensure solutions meet diverse user needs
Communicate design rationale, insights, and vision clearly through artifacts, narratives, and presentations
Translate strategy and insights into polished, production-ready design work that scales across platforms
Deliver high-quality UI designs with strong visual hierarchy, interaction clarity, and attention to detail across web and native mobile experiences
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
Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing to validate flows, components, and interactions and drive iterative design improvements
Create prototypes at appropriate fidelity to explore, test, and communicate design solutions
Design and test experiences using inclusive design principles informed by accessibility standards, applying plain language to support clarity and comprehension
Design for responsive, mobile-first web experiences and native mobile applications
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
Use tools such as Figma, Figjam, Miro, AdobeCC, Lovable, DScout, User Insight to design, prototype, test, and document work
Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders throughout discovery, design, and delivery
Maintain organized, well-documented design files and artifacts to support efficient collaboration and continuity
Follow established team workflows and design processes while providing constructive feedback to improve how the team works
Participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews, critiques, and QA cycles
Translate design decisions into clear, implementation-ready specifications and annotations
Communicate ideas, research insights, and design solutions with clarity and confidence in both synchronous and asynchronous settings
Qualification
Required
A portfolio of your work included in your application
A Bachelor's degree in a related field (interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, computer science, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience
3-7 years of experience in product or service design
A strong product design mindset with experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications
Excellent skills in creating and communicating design artifacts, including user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs
Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to translate insights into actionable design direction
Extensive experience working within design systems for both web and native mobile platforms (required)
Experience planning and conducting usability testing and incorporating findings into design decisions
A strong understanding of responsive design, inclusive design principles, and accessibility standards
Comfort collaborating with engineers and discussing technical constraints (experience with front-end technologies is a plus)
Clear, effective communication skills and a collaborative, user-advocacy mindset
Curiosity and adaptability, with interest in emerging tools and trends, including AI-supported design workflows
Preferred
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
Company
Accylerate
Accylerate, LLC.
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase