Senior UX Designer I - Design System

WHO WE ARE:

ActBlue is a nonprofit that builds tech and infrastructure for Democratic campaigns, progressive-aligned causes, and people trying to make an impact in order to fuel long-term, people-powered change. If you’ve ever given online to a Democrat or progressive organization, chances are you’ve used our powerful online fundraising platform.

We put power in the hands of small-dollar donors and help thousands of groups — from presidential candidates to environmental organizations — build grassroots movements. We envision a democracy where everyone looking to make progressive people-powered change can easily and effectively deploy their resources, energy, and creativity to shape our country and futures. Each and every one of us, from the political activists to the tech innovators to the customer service pros, is fully committed to our mission.

THE OPPORTUNITY: 

As a Senior UX Designer, you will partner with our Design, Product, and Engineering leads to drive the evolution and vision for Blueprint, the ActBlue design system. By working closely with product teams across the organization you will shape, implement, and grow Blueprint to have the greatest impact for our users. This role plays a critical part in ensuring a consistent and well-connected user experience across the entire ActBlue community.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Own the end-to-end design process and deliver consistent, accessible, well-documented design system patterns and templates from ideation, to new components in Figma, and in collaborating with engineers to release them in Storybook.
• Lead the charge on informing and educating the design team and wider product organization on the current state, ongoing progress, and future improvements of the design system.
• Partner closely with cross-functional teams through each stage of their product design process to identify potential new patterns, user interactions, and incorporate real use cases into the design system.
• Collaborate with the research team to identify as well as conduct research studies to inform the evolution of the design system.
• Proactively implement and follow our organizational design principles and industry best practices keeping the best interests of our users at the forefront. 
• Maintain and evolve the documentation and design assets that the team will need to adopt and implement the design system..

WHAT YOU BRING:

• 5+  years of experience on end-to-end delivery of digital products, starting from ideation, through discovery, and on to beautifully crafted mock-ups and prototypes, and improving the accessibility of digital products as demonstrated in a portfolio of work.
• 2+ years of direct experience in crafting, evolving, and implementing design systems.
• High proficiency with Figma, including familiarity with branching, components, variables, variants, and modes while creating, maintaining, and planning a component library that interfaces with Storybook.
• Strong skills in multiple design areas including visual, interaction, information architecture, and digital products.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams to assess design pattern needs, identify new ones to develop, execute, and deliver into the library, and continually evangelizing the design system.
• Creating and implementing accessible, inclusive (WCAG 2.2 AA) designs and patterns.
• Past experience in graphic design, motion graphics, digital art, typography, color, layout, and a general awareness of omni-channel design principles is a plus.
• Experience working with all remote, geographically distributed, cross-functional teams on complex product features.
• You bring a user-first approach to UX design, grounding decisions in research, data, and impact to key metrics.
• You’re a strong storyteller with experience in presenting to audiences at multiple levels of the organization.
• You’re comfortable working in a culture of feedback and approach conflict with curiosity.
• You’re dedicated to working in a collaborative and inclusive work environment, and don’t just welcome, but encourage, backgrounds and points of view that differ from yours.
• You care about progressive causes and politics and want to spend your time making a meaningful impact by doing what you do best.

• You’re comfortable with our design and technology stacks, and are not afraid to dive in with curiosity to areas beyond your comfort. This includes Storybook, styled components, React, and other modern front-end technologies.

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH:

• We use Figma to design.
• Figjam and Miro to collaborate.
• Slack to communicate.
• Google Suite and Confluence to document.
• Zoom to meet.
• Jira and Airtable for planning and agile.

LOCATION AND COMPENSATION: 

This posting is for a full-time, remote, salaried position. Travel may be required on a limited basis to attend all-staff and departmental retreats (1-2 times per year). Additional travel may be required for select positions.  Our roles predominantly require availability during established business hours (Mon-Fri). Employees in this role are expected to be a part of an on-call rotation which will result in working nontraditional hours as needed.

ATS is currently authorized to support remote work employees in Arizona, California, Connecticut, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C. and Wisconsin.

Employees can expect to work with distributed teams across all U.S. time zones. Our roles require extended technology usage, and proficiency with virtual communication tools such as Zoom and Slack. Regular attendance in virtual meetings is inherent to every position. 

Salary Range Details:

Salary Range: $141,906 - $153,026

ActBlue is committed to consistent compensation practices across our organization.  Final salary offers will take into account factors such as candidate experience, interview performance and current team salary parity. 

BENEFITS:

• Flexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policy
• Fully paid and trans-inclusive health, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families; plus fully-paid health reimbursement arrangement to use for out of pocket expenses and fully-paid short- and long-term disability 
• Fully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance option
• Dependent and health care flexible spending account options
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employees 
• Automatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributions
• A minimum of three months paid medical, family and parental leave (for all new parents, adoptions included)
• Commuter or home-office benefits, including a $1,000 home-office setup allowance for all new full-time remote employees
• Additional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York Times

ActBlue is unable to sponsor work visas at this time.

Bargaining Unit position: The terms and conditions of this position are subject to a collective bargaining agreement with the Communications Workers of America, the exclusive bargaining agent of covered ActBlue Technical Services employees.

INCLUSION STATEMENT:

ActBlue is deeply committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity. We commit to retaining, developing, recruiting, and hiring a diverse staff community. We honor the dignity of all. We celebrate their unique qualities. And we recognize the wide range of human differences, backgrounds, and intersectional identities that enrich the workspace and help us better meet our mission. If you feel a connection to our mission and see your interests reflected in this job description we encourage you to apply - even if you don’t meet every requirement. 

ActBlue is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities throughout the interview and employment process, including using our online system to apply for a position. If you would like to request an accommodation, please contact us at recruitment@actblue.com to get started.