{"id":3637589,"url":"https://alion.io/job/skyward-it-solutions-product-designer","title":"Product Designer","company":{"id":684857,"name":"Skyward IT Solutions","domain":"skywarditsolutions.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/skywarditsolutions","size_band":"51-200","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Lever","truth_index":null},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"remote","remote_scope":"stated_countries","remote_scope_basis":"board_field","remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":[],"countries":[],"hiring_countries":["US"],"hiring_countries_total":1,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":5,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Figma","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-11-02T16:20:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-11-02","last_verified_at":"2026-11-09T15:39:36Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":7,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":7},"description":"We need a Product Designer.\n Do you get a little thrill from turning a tangle of requirements and research into a screen so clean it feels obvious? The kind where users just… get it? Are you the designer who sweats the spacing, the hierarchy, and the one-word label that makes a confusing flow finally click? You lead with craft, you back it with evidence, and you’re not happy until the pixels earn their place.\nIf you love designing the answer (and know how to prove it’s the right one), please apply.\nLet’s go Skyward together.\nWhat you'll do:\nDesign the experience. Own the UX and UI for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Service’s (CMS) enterprise AI platform, and for CMS’s AI products, from concept to polished, high-fidelity, USWDS-aligned designs in Figma that are intuitive, elegant, and ready to build.\nMake it tangible fast. Move from sketches to wireframes to interactive prototypes, iterating quickly so stakeholders can see and feel the solution, not just read about it.\nBuild and extend the design system. 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Work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineers, the AI team, and CMS stakeholders in a badgeless, one-team culture, handing off designs that developers love to build.\nWhat we’d like you to have:\nA bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in UX/product design (with hands-on research exposure) or a closely related field.\nA standout portfolio that shows strong visual and interaction design - real products you took from concept to polished, shipped UI.\nDeep Figma fluency: high-fidelity design, prototyping, and building/maintaining design systems and component libraries.\nA solid grasp of UX fundamentals: information architecture, interaction patterns, and usability principles, plus the ability to run lightweight research to validate your work.\nFamiliarity with the USWDS and federal CX mandates.\nGenuine accessibility awareness. 508 and WCAG are part of how you design, not an afterthought.\nDeep research chops to complement your design. You can lead the discovery as confidently as the design.\nWhat would blow us away:\nFront-end familiarity (HTML/CSS, or designing closely with React teams) so your handoffs are build-ready.\nExperience designing data-heavy or AI-driven products (dashboards, search, chat, or knowledge tools).\nYou previously supported CMS or another federal agency.\nEven if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications, we encourage you to apply. At Skyward, we’re focused on hiring individuals with the right skills and passion to grow, not just checking off every box.\nAnd now the important part. What we offer you:\nMedical, dental, vision insurance\n15 days of paid leave\n7 days of sick leave\n2 days bereavement leave\n11 paid Federal holidays\nUp to 40 hours for jury duty\n401K with 4% employer contribution (and no vesting period)\nUp to 4 weeks of paid paternity and maternity leave\nCompany provided laptop\n$5,000 per year for professional development\n$600 per year for technical supplies and equipment\n$2,000 referral bonus\nLife and disability insurance\nHSA and FSA\nLegal Shield and ID Shield Voluntary Benefits\nOpportunity to work in a collaborative, motivated team focused on modernizing government services with cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. 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