СШАSenior Product Designer, Platform
3 дн. назад
170k–210k USD / годСШАSeniorHybrid
Design platform-level patterns and own the Canopy design system used to build modern software for federal agencies.
Обязанности
- Kaizen is winning more deals than ever, and every engagement runs on Taproot, our modular platform and a library of reusable modules with the Canopy design system at its core. Blacksmith, our AI configuration system, reads a government program's requirements and assembles a working application from Taproot modules, so a new engagement starts from a running product in days instead of a blank repo.
- Platform-level patterns are the starting point for every program we build. This role owns the Canopy design system and the shared platform: reusable modules and components, and the shared surfaces and patterns every delivery team builds on. It's one of the most important roles on the team, and it answers a simple question: can our platform scale at the rate we're winning work, and stay good while it does?
- Own the Canopy Design System end to end: components, tokens, documentation and guidelines, built so spacing, type, states, density and accessibility are right at the source.
- Design every module and shared product surface in the Taproot platform, from scoping through ship.
- Work with project teams across delivery engagements to learn what the platform needs, and decide what becomes a shared pattern and what stays a one-off.
- Set the platform design roadmap and the processes teams use to request, adopt and contribute to the system.
- Roll out system changes across live products without breaking what has already shipped to users.
- Pair with the Platform engineers on feature build outs, docs and guidelines, and ship components yourself.
- Make every delivery team faster as the system grows, so users get services that work the first time.
Требования
- Deep UI craft at the component level. You sweat spacing, type, states, density and accessible behavior (WCAG, Section 508), because every decision you make ships many times over.
- Experience evolving a design system across a growing suite of products, including rolling out changes without breaking live surfaces.
- The judgment to tell a one-off request from a real pattern, and the discipline to abstract only what earns it.
- A track record of driving adoption: you treat a design system as a product, get teams building on it, and can show it made them faster.
- Comfort owning a roadmap and working directly with engineers and delivery teams who don't report to you.
Условия
- New York, NY (in office four days a week)
- 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave for birthing parents. 10 weeks fully paid for non-birthing parents.
- Unlimited PTO, with a two-week minimum (we mean it when we say take time off!)
- Closed for all federal holidays.
- Company-wide winter break the week of Christmas.
- Company offsites throughout the year.
Другое
- Government technology has failed citizens, veterans, public servants, and service members for decades.
- Kaizen powers America’s application layer. We replace the legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software, built with craft. The ticketing platform a resident uses to visit a presidential library. The marketplace DoW uses to procure counter-drone systems to protect lives and critical infrastructure. The system a Veteran uses to access benefits. We build systems of record, of national consequence. Our AI-native modules and harness allow us to do so in weeks, not years.
- This year, our revenue has grown 35x. Next year, our software will serve over 100 million Americans across dozens of federal agencies.
- Founded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital.
- Write front-end code: you build components yourself and have an engineer review them.
- Have designed for platform at a fast moving startup.
- Keep a whole portfolio of products in view, so a decision that helps one doesn't cost another.
- You'd rather go deep on one product than build the system many teams depend on.
- You fix problems on the screen in front of you and leave the component as it was.
- You see a design system as a library to maintain, not a product to grow.
- You'd rather say yes to every team's request than make the call on what belongs in the system.
- You want your work to end at the handoff file.
- Every component you ship here ends up in front of someone applying for housing, benefits or records they need. It has to be right everywhere it shows up.
- 100% coverage across the board: medical through Oxford/United (Gold and Platinum PPO plans), dental through Guardian PPO, and vision through Beam — all fully covered for employees, with 100% coverage for dependents.
- $100,000 in fully paid life insurance. FSA and Dependent Care FSA.
- One Medical membership, on us — same-day primary care, 24/7 virtual visits, and offices all over the city.
- Fertility and family-building support through Carrot.
- 401(k) through Guideline, with a 2% company match.
- Up to $750 one-time home office or desk setup stipend for NYC-based employees. $500 for remote employees.
- $50/month commuter benefit (company contribution).
- Expensed lunch while in the office.
- Dinner and Uber rides home will be expensed if you choose to work in the office past 7pm.
- Company-provided laptop of your choice.
- NYC employees: Fully covered gym membership at Grindhouse — right across the street from our office at 47 W 17th St (and in Williamsburg). A $225/month value, on us.
- Non-NYC employees: $100 per month, dedicated to gym / physical fitness reimbursement.
- $100/month utility stipend.
- $250/quarter home cleaning stipend
- $500/year professional development.
- $250/year recreation.
- $300/quarter pet care stipend.