{"id":3057510,"url":"https://alion.io/job/true-anomaly-lead-digital-designer","title":"Lead Digital Designer","company":{"id":3381,"name":"True Anomaly","domain":"trueanomaly.space","url":"https://alion.io/company/true-anomaly","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":93,"open_postings":176,"ghost_share":0.04,"stale_share":0,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":105,"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"}},"role":"Design","role_family":"Design","seniority":"lead","employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Denver, United States","Long Beach, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":135000,"max":200000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":200000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Figma","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-22T04:26:51Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-22","last_verified_at":"2026-10-27T20:20:40Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":0,"flags":["company_stale"],"days_open":5},"description":"Space is a warfighting domain. True Anomaly seeks those with the talent and ambition to build the technology that secures it.\nOUR MISSION\nTrue Anomaly delivers decisive capabilities for space superiority. We build autonomous spacecraft, advanced payloads, mission software, and space-based interceptors - enabling the U.S. and its Allies to secure the space environment and counter threats from the ultimate high ground.\nOUR VALUES\nBe the offset. We create asymmetric advantages with creativity and ingenuity.\nWhat would it take? We challenge assumptions to deliver ambitious results.\nIt’s the people. Our team is our competitive advantage and we are better together.\nBENEFITS & PERKS*\nBest-in-class healthcare: 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents, with HSA/HRA options\n Generous time off: Flexible Time Off (FTO) for exempt employees, accrued PTO of up to 25 days for non-exempt employees, plus 12 paid holidays; Parental Leave; Sick Leave\nFuel for your day: Daily catered lunch and unlimited snacks for in-office employees\n And more: 401(k) retirement plan, fitness reimbursement, and Dog Fridays\nEquity participation: Equity is included as part of our total compensation package, giving you an opportunity to share in the company’s success.\n*Do not apply to fixed term and temporary roles\nYOUR MISSION\nThe Lead Digital Designer defines how True Anomaly’s brand lives, moves, and communicates across digital experiences. Working closely with the Head of Graphic Design, Brand & Identity, and the broader Brand & Creative team, this role leads the design of major web, editorial, campaign, and interactive experiences. The role translates brand, content, product, and business strategy into compelling digital experiences and helps evolve the systems, patterns, and principles that support True Anomaly’s digital expression.\nYour primary focus will be designing and evolving our web ecosystem, including a new editorial publication and an interactive company website. This is a hands-on design role for someone who combines exceptional visual craft with strong systems thinking, editorial judgment, and an understanding of how people experience content, products, and brands on the web. You can develop a bold creative direction within a broader creative framework, translate it into a flexible design system, and remain closely involved as the work is built and launched.\nBeyond our core web platforms, you will contribute to product launches, integrated marketing campaigns, social content, and the digital expression of events and other significant brand moments. You will think across the end-to-end experience, understanding how individual interactions, content, and touchpoints work together to create a coherent relationship with the brand.\nThis is not a motion design role, but motion is an important part of the medium. You should understand how interaction, animation, transitions, and responsive behavior can improve hierarchy, storytelling, and usability and be able to concept and direct that work in partnership with motion designers and developers.\nRESPONSIBILITIES\nWeb and Interactive Design\nLead the creative development and design of True Anomaly’s company website, editorial publication, and other priority digital experiences.\nTranslate brand, audience, product, content, and business objectives into clear digital concepts, information architecture, user journeys, page systems, and interaction models.\nDesign responsive experiences from early concepts and wireframes through high-fidelity design, prototyping, development, quality assurance, and launch.\nCreate high-fidelity interactive prototypes that communicate responsive behavior, motion, transitions, and complex user flows with enough specificity to guide implementation.\nDevelop and articulate a distinctive point of view for how the True Anomaly brand behaves online across typography, imagery, layout, interaction, and motion, aligned with the broader brand direction set by Brand & Creative leadership.\nPartner with developers from the beginning of a project to explore what is possible in the browser and use technical constraints and emerging capabilities as inputs to the creative process.\nBalance expressive storytelling with clarity, accessibility, performance, ease of use, and the needs of different audiences.\nMaintain creative quality through development, testing, and launch.\nReview qualitative and quantitative signals after launch and evolve digital experiences based on audience behavior, content performance, and changing business needs.\nEditorial Design and Publishing\nCreate the design system for a new editorial publication that can support long-form journalism, technical storytelling, interviews, essays, multimedia, and evolving content formats.\nPartner with Editorial Content Strategy, Communications, Creative Strategy, and subject-matter experts to determine how stories should be structured and experienced.\nPartner with Editorial, Content Strategy, and developers to define the publication’s content model, taxonomy, CMS requirements, and relationships between stories, formats, authors, and topics.\nDesign for the full publishing system-not only individual articles-including discovery, navigation, archives, series, author pages, related content, search, and emerging editorial formats.\nDevelop flexible article templates and editorial components without making every story feel identical.\nUse typography, pacing, imagery, data, interaction, and motion to make complex ideas understandable and compelling.\nEnsure the system supports editorial flexibility, efficient publishing, accessibility, and long-term growth without sacrificing the character of individual stories.\nHelp establish scalable workflows and standards for publishing and evolving content.\nDigital Brand Systems\nBuild and evolve reusable digital design systems, including typography, color, layout, components, interaction patterns, and motion principles, in partnership with the Head of Graphic Design, Brand & Identity and relevant creative and technical partners.\nPartner with internal teams and external collaborators to scale, refine, and evolve design across digital systems and experiences.\nEnsure consistency across the company website, editorial experiences, campaigns, launches, events, and social platforms.\nCreate templates and kits of parts that allow the team to move quickly while maintaining a high creative standard.\nIdentify when a digital experience should extend the existing system and when a moment warrants a more bespoke approach.\nDocument systems and provide clear design direction to internal teams, developers, agencies, and production partners, escalating major brand or strategic decisions as appropriate.\nExplore emerging tools and formats-including creative coding, generative design, data visualization, real-time 3D, and AI-assisted workflows-when they create a more meaningful or effective digital experience.\nCampaigns, Launches, and Brand Moments\nDevelop digital creative for integrated marketing campaigns and product launches, including landing pages, interactive stories, digital toolkits, social assets, and supporting content.\nPartner with Product Marketing, Communications, Social, Events, and other teams to create cohesive experiences across channels.\nShape the digital layer of important events, demonstrations, installations, and live brand moments.\nAdapt ideas intelligently across formats rather than treating each deliverable as an isolated asset.\nMaintain a high level of craft across both flagship experiences and faster-turn work.\nInteraction and Motion for the Web\nDefine how motion and interaction support navigation, hierarchy, comprehension, and storytelling across digital experiences.\nCreate prototypes that communicate intended behavior, transitions, and responsive states.\nCollaborate with motion designers on more complex animation, films, and motion systems.\nWork closely with developers to ensure motion is purposeful, performant, accessible, and faithful to the design intent.\nDistinguish between moments that benefit from movement and those where restraint creates a stronger experience.\nStrategy, Research, and Partnership\nChampion user research and audience understanding as inputs to creative direction, content structure, interaction design, and ongoing iteration.\nFrame ambiguous problems and opportunities through clear strategic briefs that connect audience needs, product and business objectives, content, technology, and brand.\nPresent design vision, strategy, concepts, prototypes, and work in progress to creative leadership, business stakeholders, and cross-functional partners.\nWork closely with Creative Strategy to translate the company’s narrative, priorities, and product context into effective digital experiences.\nPartner directly with developers, content teams, product partners, and specialists from the beginning of a project to align creative ambition with technical feasibility and end-to-end experience needs.\nPrepare thoughtful design specifications, prototypes, assets, and annotations that enable high-quality implementation.\nReview builds across screen sizes, devices, browsers, and interaction states; identify quality issues and direct refinements before launch.\nPartner with content, analytics, accessibility, SEO, and performance specialists, using their expertise to improve the experience without independently owning those disciplines.\nBuild and maintain a trusted network of digital studios, independent designers, developers, and specialist partners.\nEvaluate outside partners based on creative fit, technical capability, executional quality, and responsible investment.\nQUALIFICATIONS\n10+ years of experience in digital, web, brand, editorial, product, or experience 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A portfolio link is required.\nExperience designing content-rich editorial, brand, product, or storytelling-focused websites and digital experiences.\nStrong command of typography, layout, hierarchy, image-making, responsive design, interaction design, and digital design systems.\nExperience developing digital work from concept through high-fidelity design, prototyping, development, quality assurance, launch, and ongoing iteration.\nStrong understanding of user journeys, information architecture, end-to-end experience design, accessibility, and responsive behavior.\nExperience using user research, audience insights, analytics, or other forms of evidence to inform design decisions and improve experiences.\nExperience designing for CMS-driven publishing platforms and collaborating on content models, taxonomies, and authoring workflows.\nFluency in Figma and other current digital design and prototyping tools.\nAbility to prototype sophisticated interaction and motion using appropriate tools; 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