[Remote] Senior UX Designer I , Design Systems

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. ActBlue is a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating technology that supports Democratic victories and progressive causes. As a Senior UX Designer I, you will lead the design of product features and contribute to the design system, ensuring quality and consistency while collaborating with cross-functional teams.ResponsibilitiesConceptualize and create design solutions that bring clarity, cohesion, and visual impact across product experiences — from early exploration through detailed executionPartner with UX research and data teams to ground design decisions in user behaviors, needs, and motivationsTranslate concepts into cohesive, user-centered designs, balancing speed with craft and structure with storytellingContribute to information architecture and influence best practices that raise the standard of design across the teamParticipate actively in team crits, providing constructive feedback and fostering a strong design cultureMay support supplementary projects as assigned, ensuring timely and efficient completion in line with organizational objectives and standardsActively build and apply AI fluency in your design practice, contributing to shared workflows and helping teammates explore how AI can support faster, more consistent design outcomesCollaborate closely with product, engineering, and internal teams to translate creative direction into practical, user-centered solutionsCommunicate design intent effectively through visuals, prototypes, and storytelling that align teams and stakeholdersLead through influence — fostering alignment, elevating work quality, and helping peers think through design challenges with clarityWork with cross-functional partners to define timelines, trade-offs, and constraints throughout the design processContribute to component specs, token definitions, and library maintenance in collaboration with the UX team, ensuring accuracy and consistency across the systemIdentify gaps and opportunities within the system, helping define patterns that support product growth and scalabilityPartner with front-end engineers to ensure specs translate cleanly into production and the token pipeline stays reliableSupport documentation and guidelines that enable adoption across design and development, including versioning and deprecation as the system evolvesDevelop fluency with AI-powered design tools, applying them to generate and validate on-system designs using the design system as a reliable foundationSkills3–5 years of experience leading end-to-end delivery of products, starting from ideation and discovery to pixel-perfect mocksExperience working with remote, geographically distributed, cross-functional teams on complex product featuresExperience leading discovery, ideation, and user research sessionsSome hands-on exposure to design systems work — contributing to components, tokens, or documentationStrong design tooling skills (e.g. Figma), including component libraries and an interest in deepening your Variables and token workflow knowledgeFamiliarity with token architecture and an eagerness to learn how design tokens connect to engineering implementationYou bring a user-first approach to UX design, grounding decisions in research and dataYou're a strong storyteller with experience presenting to audiences at multiple levels of the organizationExperience mentoring junior designersFamiliarity with AI-powered design tools and genuine curiosity about how they can be grounded in a strong design system — or excitement to develop that fluency as the space evolvesYou're comfortable working in a culture of feedback and approach conflict with curiosityYou're dedicated to fostering a collaborative and inclusive work environment, and don't just welcome, but center and amplify, backgrounds and points of view that differ from yoursYou care about progressive causes and politics and want to spend your time making a meaningful impact by doing what you do bestYou're comfortable with our design and tech stacks and are not afraid to dive in with curiosity to areas beyond your comfortBenefitsFlexible work schedules and an unlimited time-off policyFully 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 disabilityFully paid basic and AD&D life insurance and a voluntary supplemental life insurance optionDependent and health care flexible spending account optionsEmployee Assistance Program (EAP) benefits for employeesAutomatic 2% Employer-paid 401K contribution, plus up to an additional 6% match on employee contributionsA 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 employeesAdditional perks including quarterly snack deliveries and digital subscriptions to the Boston Globe & New York TimesCompany OverviewActBlue is nonprofit tech organization that builds fundraising tools for Democratic candidates, progressive causes, and nonprofits. It was founded in 2004, and is headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA, with a workforce of 201-500 employees. Its website is https://secure.actblue.com/.