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.