Senior Product Designer, (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design)

Senior Product Designer (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design)

TheProduct Designer is responsible for designing, maintaining, and evolving a scalable design system that enables consistent, accessible, and user-centered experiences across digital products. Working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Content Strategists, and Accessibility specialists, this role creates reusable components, interaction patterns, and design standards that improve usability, accelerate delivery, and promote consistency across applications. 

The Product Designer collaborates across multiple product teams to design cohesive experiences for shared capabilities such as navigation, authentication, search, notifications, help content, and other cross-product interactions. This role champions accessibility and inclusive design, develops design documentation and implementation guidance, and partners with engineering to ensure design system components are practical, scalable, and aligned with modern web standards. 

At Fearless, the Senior Consultant combines expertise in Content Design, Content Strategy, Product Design, Service Design, User Research, and UX leadership. This role will possess the necessary skills at an advanced level of proficiency for setting the vision, strategy, and systems that guide cross-functional design teams in creating scalable, impactful, and user-centered solutions. The role requires a balance of strategic foresight, design mentorship, and hands-on expertise to deliver high-quality products and services that meet user, customer, and organizational needs.

Your Responsibilities in this Role: 

● Lead the evolution and governance of the organization's design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, accessibility, and usability across products. 

● Define and maintain reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and implementation guidance in collaboration with design and engineering teams. Partner with engineering teams to improve shared platform capabilities, including navigation components, file upload experiences, validation patterns, and other reusable user interface elements. 

● Drive cross-product user experience strategy by designing cohesive experiences that span multiple applications and user journeys. 

● Collaborate across product workstreams to define shared interaction models, navigation patterns, search experiences, contextual help strategies, and notification frameworks. 

● Balance competing stakeholder needs while establishing scalable UX solutions that can be adopted across multiple teams and products. Ensure design decisions align with accessibility standards, usability best practices, and modern web standards. 

● Lead accessibility initiatives across products, including browser compatibility, assistive technology support, email accessibility, and multilingual experiences. 

● Partner closely with Product Managers, Content Strategists, Engineers, and Accessibility specialists throughout discovery, design, implementation, and validation. 

● Advocate for user-centered design principles while balancing technical constraints and business objectives. 

● Create documentation, standards, and implementation guidance that enable teams to consistently adopt shared design patterns. 

● Review product implementations to ensure alignment with established design system standards and accessibility requirements. 

The Impact You Will Create in this Role:

Fearless Impact:

• Collaborates with cross functional teams 
• Coach, mentor, and develop peers in a manner that allows for knowledge sharing that strengthens the design community within the organization
• Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.
• Drive accountability and delivery by ensuring project objectives are not only met on time but aligned with client priorities and Fearless standards of excellence. Anticipate risks and implement proactive solutions to keep initiatives on track.
• Take ownership of risk management by monitoring deliverables across the team, identifying issues early, and coaching teammates on mitigation strategies while keeping leadership informed.
• Shape client engagement and intelligence-gathering efforts by actively cultivating relationships with stakeholders, synthesizing insights across the client organization and partner ecosystem, and providing Fearless leaders with actionable recommendations that inform strategy and strengthen delivery outcomes.

Fearless Customer Impact:

• Deliver expected outcomes that are intuitive, accessible, and aesthetically compelling
• Offer and implement innovative solutions that include design best practices, tools, and research methods
• Serve as a trusted advisor in your area of expertise
• Lead and align stakeholders with product and project goals that drive adoption, retention, and customer satisfaction as well as Fearless success

Project Specific Skill and Experience Requirements

● 7+ years of experience in UX, Product Design, Interaction Design, or Design Systems. 

● Demonstrated experience building, maintaining, and governing enterprise-scale design systems. 

● Experience designing complex workflows that span multiple products or platforms. Strong understanding of human-centered design, information architecture, interaction design, and visual hierarchy. 

● Experience working closely with front-end engineering teams and understanding modern web technologies. 

● Deep knowledge of accessibility standards, including WCAG 2.1/2.2, ARIA, keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and inclusive design practices. 

● Experience validating designs across browsers, devices, assistive technologies, and email clients. 

● Experience designing multilingual and localization-ready user experiences. 

● Familiarity with design systems built using modern component libraries such as the U.S. Web Design System (USWDS), Material Design, or similar enterprise frameworks. 

● Experience facilitating cross-functional collaboration and driving alignment across multiple product teams. 

● Excellent communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills. 

● Experience using modern design and collaboration tools such as Figma, FigJam, Jira, and Confluence. 

Preferred Experience 

● Experience working on enterprise SaaS or government digital services. 

● Experience with USWDS and federal accessibility requirements. 

● Knowledge of front-end implementation considerations (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, component-based frameworks) 

● Experience establishing design governance processes and design review practices. 

● Experience working within Agile product delivery environments. 

Fearless Skills and Competencies

• Analytical Thinking: The ability to observe and interpret information, break down complex problems into parts, identify patterns/relationships and draw logical conclusions to develop effective solutions.
• Synthetic Thinking: The ability to combine different ideas, information, or concepts to create a new, complex understanding or solution by integrating disparate elements into a new, meaningful whole.
• Adaptability: Comfort with change, flexibility in the face of shifting demands and resilience to setbacks.
• Ownership & Accountability: Committed to taking responsibility for outcomes, ensuring that all commitments are met with a focus on enhancing service delivery.
• Consultative Advising: Identifies and articulates client challenges, scopes projects and aligns recommendations to business goals and client expectations.
• Communicating with Influence: Capable of crafting and delivering clear, persuasive messages that integrate data insights and structured narratives, tailored to the strategic needs of diverse audiences to drive effective decision-making.
• Managing Priorities & Client Alignment: Skillfully negotiates and manages conflicting priorities to strategically align decisions, enhancing service delivery and client satisfaction.

Required Level of Proficiency:

• Advanced Application: You can perform the actions associated with a skill without assistance. You are recognized within your immediate organization as "a person to ask" when difficult questions regarding required skills arise.

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to sit for extended periods while working on a computer or during meetings.
• Must be able to travel occasionally to client sites or company meetings, which may involve driving or flying.
• Ability to communicate effectively via phone, email, and in-person, requiring clear speech, listening, and written communication skills.
• Ability to move within an office environment, including reaching for files, using office equipment, and occasional light lifting (up to 10 pounds).

Life at Fearless

We’re a digital integration consultancy on a mission to build a better tomorrow. At Fearless, we combine technology, people, and organizational development to solve meaningful problems. Through iterative development, we deliver smart, user-friendly solutions that make tech work better—for everyone.

But great tech is just part of the story. What really makes us Fearless is our Purple Culture.

What Makes Us Purple?

Being Purple means you:

• Are valued as a whole person—not just a job title
• Get matched with work that plays to your strengths and passions
• Are supported by coaches, not micromanagers
• Have the autonomy and clarity to make decisions and drive impact
• Join a community that celebrates equity, curiosity, and innovation
• Do work that matters—every day

We believe in flexibility, growth, and balance. Our benefits and culture are designed to support you in doing your best work—while making space for what matters to you outside of it.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. At Fearless, we’re building a workplace that welcomes and respects everyone—across race, gender, age, religion, identity, background, and ability. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Compensation at Fearless

Fearless is committed to providing a competitive compensation package that will meet your current and future needs. Our philosophy is aimed at rewarding team member contributions, supporting long-term financial growth and security, and overall well-being. 

We believe in paying people fairly, so we've established a compensation model aimed to ensure everyone at Fearless — regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, nationality, or willingness/ability to negotiate — is consistently paid fairly based on alignment to the needs and requirements of the role. 

The salary range for this position is:

Minimum Salary: $96,132

Salary Midpoint: $124,971

Maximum Salary: $162,462

Hiring Range for Role: $96,132 - $132,000

*This position is eligible for a discretionary bonus based on individual and company performance criteria.

Benefits at Fearless

At Fearless, we take care of our team—because when you're supported, you can do your best work. We offer a flexible, family-friendly environment with benefits designed to support your health, growth, and life outside of work.

For Full-Time Team Members (Starting Day One):

• Flexible, life-friendly schedules
• 100% coverage for our medical HSA plan + HSA contributions
• Dental & vision covered 100% for you and your dependents
• Competitive premiums for HMO/PPO and dependent coverage
• 401(k) with 4% match & immediate vesting
• Paid Parental Leave and 12 weeks paid FMLA
• Generous PTO, 11 Federal Holidays, a Birthday Holiday, and Sick Leave
• Up to 15 days for Jury Duty and Bereavement Leave
• Education, wellness, and tech allowances
• Referral bonus: $6K–$12K for each successful referral
• Pet insurance & discount plans
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Legal support, life insurance, disability coverage
• Performance-Based Bonuses: We believe your impact should be recognized. Our bonus program rewards both shared company success and individual contributions. Learn more about our bonus incentives here.

Reasonable Accommodations

Fearless is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and candidates with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact the Human Resources Department at hr@fearless.tech.

So, What’s Next?

We’ve refined our hiring approach to make sure every team member is a great fit for Fearless—and that we’re a great fit for you, too. If there’s alignment, we’ll reach out to kick off the interview process. Depending on the role or project, your experience may vary slightly, but it typically includes:

1. Introductory Interview

You'll connect with a recruiter to:

• Build rapport and get to know each other
• Review your experience and skills
• Talk through salary expectations and role details
• Set expectations for the rest of the process

2. Technical Assessment

We'll invite you to complete a role-specific assessment to see your skills in action. This helps us keep our hiring process fair and consistent. You can learn more about what to expect here.

3. Skills + Business Fit Interview

This is where we dig deeper to:

• Review findings from any technical assessments
• Walk through situational and values-based questions
• Explore how your approach aligns with Fearless culture and project needs

Some roles may also include customer interviews based on specific project requirements in addition to background check and security clearance requirements.

Where You Can Build with Fearless

At Fearless, we strive to build a powerful and diverse team. We are currently licensed and set up to hire talented individuals residing in the following 16 states:

Alabama, California, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

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