Senior Product Designer - Clearance Required

Overview

LMI is hiring a Senior Product Designer to shape software around the way national security users work. You will own research and interaction design for complex workflows, working directly with users and engineers from early discovery through initial deployment. You will influence what the team builds and stay involved as designs become working software.

You will join a multidisciplinary team within LMI's National Security organization. Work spans technical discovery, rapid prototypes, and selected deployments through initial operational use. The team develops reusable capabilities and transfers them to LMI program or product teams for sustained delivery.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

• Research user tasks, decisions, and operating conditions through interviews, observation, and review of existing workflows.
• Turn findings into clear information architecture, interaction flows, and prototypes that help the team test an approach early.
• Design interfaces for complex data and decisions, including search, tables, filters, maps, and multistep workflows where appropriate.
• Design AI interactions that make sources, limitations, user controls, and review or approval steps understandable.
• Test designs with users, incorporate feedback, and work with engineers to resolve implementation and accessibility issues.
• Create and maintain reusable components and patterns that make related applications consistent and easier to build.
• Support customer demonstrations and initial deployment, assess usability in the intended environment, and transfer design rationale and assets to the sustaining team.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• A portfolio of shipped software products showing your contribution from user research and interaction design through implementation and feedback.
• Experience independently leading design for complex enterprise or operational workflows and making progress from incomplete requirements.
• Strong skills in Figma or a comparable design tool, interactive prototyping, information architecture, and usability testing.
• Experience designing accessible interfaces and reusable components for data-rich applications.
• Working understanding of responsive behavior and component-based frontends, with the ability to collaborate closely with software engineers.
• Ability to explain design decisions, resolve competing user needs, and adapt an approach to technical and operational constraints.
• Travel up to 50% for user engagement, deployment support, and forward deployed delivery.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with defense, intelligence, logistics, manufacturing, autonomy operations, or other complex operational environments.
• Experience designing AI-assisted workflows, including source transparency, human review, and error recovery.
• Experience using AI-assisted or code-based prototyping, or working knowledge of HTML, CSS, and React components.
• Experience applying WCAG or Section 508 requirements and contributing to a maintained design system.
• An active U.S. government security clearance.

Target salary range is $150,000 - 200,000

Disclaimer: The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. Individual salaries are determined by various factors including, but not limited to location, internal equity, business considerations, client contract requirements, and candidate qualifications, such as education, experience, skills, and security clearances. 

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