[Hiring] Staff Product Designer @GoodParty.org

Role Description

Join GoodParty.org as a Staff Product Designer and help redesign how democracy works by building tools that empower everyday people to lead. You’ll design intuitive, high-impact experiences that support Independent candidates and elected officials reshaping how communities are represented. This is a rare opportunity to apply your craft to a mission that directly affects millions of lives.

The ideal candidate has a proven track record of shipping high-impact products in consumer internet companies or consumer-quality SaaS companies, including at least 2+ years in a staff or principal-level individual contributor role. You will own complex product areas while mentoring other designers, establishing design standards across the platform, and leveraging cutting-edge AI tools to make a massive impact.

What you'll do:

• Own end-to-end design for complex, high-impact product areas that serve candidates and elected officials across the country.
• Drive design strategy and execution for features that bridge our Win (campaign tools) and Serve (constituent services) product lines.
• Evolve our design system, creating patterns and components that enable the team to ship consistently at speed.
• Elevate our brand expression across product touchpoints, ensuring every interaction reflects our mission while remaining accessible to all users.
• Pioneer AI-powered design workflows that accelerate our team's velocity while maintaining craft excellence.
• Conduct deep user research with candidates, elected officials, and citizens to discover what a truly representative democracy experience looks like.
• Implement design changes directly in our codebase using tools like Claude Code and Cursor, speeding up engineering dependencies and iteration cycles.
• Mentor peer designers on craft excellence, systems thinking, and user research methodologies.
• Collaborate closely with engineering and product leadership to ensure our most complex features ship on time and exceed user expectations.

Qualifications

• You have 6+ years of product design experience with at least 2+ years in a staff or principal-level individual contributor role at a consumer internet company or consumer-quality SaaS company.
• You've led the design of complex, multi-stakeholder products from 0-1 and have experience scaling features to serve thousands of users.
• You're highly skilled in both responsive web design and native mobile applications, with a portfolio showcasing systematic thinking and craft excellence.
• You're highly proficient with design tools like Figma and comfortable implementing design changes in code using tools like Cursor or similar.
• You have strong AI fluency, using AI tools to accelerate your design workflow beyond basic content generation.
• You have deep experience with user research methodologies and can synthesize insights across diverse user segments.
• You have exceptional brand sensibility and visual taste, with the ability to elevate our product's aesthetic while maintaining accessibility and simplicity.
• You've built or significantly contributed to design systems that enabled team velocity while maintaining product coherence.
• You communicate complex design decisions clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders to find agreement around difficult trade-offs.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-paced startup environments where you need to balance speed with quality.

Requirements

• Bonus if you have experience designing for diverse user bases with varying levels of technical sophistication.
• You've worked on products with civic, social impact, or mission-driven focus.
• You've contributed to open-source design systems or have experience with design ops.
• You’ve studied, worked, or volunteered in politics, civics, or democracy reform.
• You’re tired of sitting on the sidelines while democracy fails to meet its potential – and you’re ready to use your passion for design to act.

Benefits

• Join a passionate team with diverse political views focused on one mission. Our values are People First. Direct, Open, and Honest. Empowered Ownership. Iterate for Impact. Fun Is Fuel.
• We’re a Public Benefit Corporation that prioritizes social impact over profit.
• Innovative Bitcoin denominated deferred bonus plan, allowing you to have the amazing upside of being in a startup while working on a truly meaningful mission.
• Work where and how you like, on a fully remote team spread across the country.
• 100% coverage of health, dental, and vision benefits for you and your dependents.
• Unlimited PTO (sick and vacation) policy to recharge and maintain work-life balance.
• 401(k) program available for retirement savings (no employer match).
• Individual learning & development budget to fund your growth.
• Workspace setup stipend for remote work needs.
• $50/month for internet and other expenses if working from home.
• Fully funded for our mission, allowing you to focus on making an impact.
• The salary range is $147,000 - 178,000 for this remote, full-time position with excellent benefits.