Lead Product Designer - Remote

Overview

Change.org is searching for a Lead Product Designer to accelerate the development of a new set of local election experiences and tools as we venture to bring functional prototypes to real users throughout the 2025 local election cycle. With a masterful understanding of, and passion for human-centered design you will lead all aspects of user experience, validation and testing for our product concepts en route to developing a scaled product in 2026 and beyond.

In Short

• Accelerate the research, design and validation of elections products & features through rapid functional prototyping & experimentation.
• Concept, design and iterate the user experience, enabling us to mature the product prior to breaking ground in code, accelerating development.
• Optimize our learning across a schedule of local elections, testing riskiest assumptions, validating the product skeleton and identify the right experience(s) that will meet our users ‘where they are’.
• Collaborate with product, product marketing and engineering leads to shape strategy and drive an effective product development process.
• Use our design system and guidelines, to create new features from ideas on paper to implementation.
• Shape the make-up and ultimately the culture of this new team as we hire and onboard engineering and product marketing partners.
• Reduce complexity to create simple, delightful, accessible experiences for our users.

Requirements

• Skilled at using evaluative and generative research methods to get to the heart of customer problems.
• Has a strong creative vision and the ability to switch easily from blue sky ideation to generating fully fleshed UX designs.
• Expertise in collaborating with engineering to build functional prototypes that accelerate time-to-market through rapid validation and iteration.
• Intrinsically motivated by driving impact and outcomes with a bias to action and challenger mindset.
• A track record of validating, launching and maturing products to deliver sustained impact for customers and businesses.

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on location and predetermined salary scale.
• Inclusive workplace culture with a focus on diversity.
• Opportunities for professional growth and development.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Comprehensive benefits package.