Senior Product Designer

Aligned is a company focused on accelerating startups with meaningful missions by providing access to elite product and engineering teams. The Senior Product Designer will shape user experiences and lead design processes, ensuring products are not only usable but delightful through collaboration and iteration.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary design voice for your Squad, partnering directly with clients to understand their users, business goals, and constraints
• Lead end-to-end design from discovery through delivery — research, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity UI, and post-launch iteration
• Conduct or guide user research and usability testing to validate directions and uncover new opportunities
• Build and maintain scalable design systems and component libraries that hold up as products grow
• Translate complex, 0-to-1 problems into simple, intuitive product experiences
• Partner closely with product and engineering to ensure designs are technically feasible and shipped with high fidelity to the original vision
• Present and defend design decisions to clients and stakeholders with clear rationale grounded in user needs and data
• Contribute to internal design standards, critique culture, and processes that raise the bar across Aligned's Squads
• Eagerness to dive in wherever needed — from a quick UI polish pass to a full research sprint

Requirements:

• 4+ years of hands-on product design experience, with ownership of end-to-end design processes
• Proven success taking products from concept through launch, including 0-to-1 work
• Strong command of Figma and modern design tooling, with fluency in prototyping
• Experience building and maintaining design systems/component libraries at scale
• Working knowledge of user research methods and comfort running or synthesizing usability testing
• Strong visual design sensibility paired with sound UX judgment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including comfort presenting directly to clients
• High attention to detail and time management, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects
• Experience working within a remote and diverse product development team
• Innate curiosity and a drive to WOW clients with thoughtful, well-crafted work
• A degree is not required