Product Designer

ABOUT AUTHORIUM Authorium is a high-growth GovTech SaaS company transforming how government agencies manage administrative operations. Our platform replaces fragmented document management solutions and decades-old legacy systems with a unified user interaction and data layer that manages billions of dollars in public funds; serving state, local, and federal agencies that in turn support millions of citizens and businesses. Authorium sits at the intersection of modernization, public service, and technology innovation like AI-enabled workflows. Our team moves fast, collaborates across teams, and builds for impact. WHAT A DESIGNER IS AT AUTHORIUM You take an idea from a rough concept to a polished, production interface running in front of real government users, and you work highly independently through that process with a clear feedback loop. You'll lean heavily on AI-native tooling to compress that loop. We expect you to be genuinely fluent in Claude Design and comparable AI design/build tools by using them to go from prompt to prototype. The candidates we're most excited about treat AI as a force multiplier on craft, not a replacement for it. WHAT YOU'LL DO Design and build, end to end • Take features from concept through interaction design, prototyping, and have a desire to front-end implementation. • Build and maintain real interfaces in our codebase (Hotwire / Next.js), partnering with Engineering on architecture, state, and performance. • Use Claude Design and other AI tooling to move fast: rapid prototypes, multiple directions, working components and bring strong judgment about which output is actually good. Shape the product surface • Improve UX across the platform from intake, approvals, document generation, evaluations, configuration, and reporting including fixing inconsistencies and usability gaps as you go. • Contribute to the design system: components, patterns, and libraries that keep the product coherent and speed up everyone's delivery. You'll both use it and extend it in code. • Help shape how AI shows up in the product with making AuthorAI feel context-aware and trustworthy for users across every level of AI comfort. Ship with quality • Design and build for accessibility and compliance from the start (WCAG 2.1 AA) — our government customers require it. • Review your work against design intent through delivery and hold the bar on fidelity and polish. • Work in sprints; manage your work in Jira and participate in planning and grooming. Collaborate • Partner with PMs to frame problems and make scope tradeoffs, and with Engineering on feasibility and front-end quality. • Talk to users: lightweight usability checks, observing real workflows, and turning what you learn into better interfaces. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR Required • 2–3 years building digital products where you both designed and implemented the front end portfolios that show shipped work, not just mockups. • Strong design craft: interaction design, layout, and a sharp eye for detail in dense, data-heavy interfaces with tables, filters, multi-step flows, role-based views. • Demonstrated fluency with Claude Design (and/or comparable AI design/build tools) used as a serious part of how you ship and please show us examples. • Proficiency in Figma (components, libraries, auto-layout, prototyping). • Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward shipping and you make judgment calls with incomplete information and move between design and code in the same day. • Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA). • Clear communication as you can explain a decision in terms of user outcomes and tradeoffs, not just aesthetics. • San Francisco Bay Area Based: Energized by an in-office (Monday-Thursday) collaborative culture. Nice to Have • Experience with dense, workflow-driven enterprise / B2B products. • Exposure to government, public sector, or other regulated/compliance-driven environments. • Experience with product analytics tools (Pendo, Mixpanel, Amplitude, or similar). • Experience integrating AI features into a product UI.