Senior Product Designer (UX) - Clearance Required

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Key Responsibilities

interviews, shadowing sessions,

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DesignProduct Designer

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems.

ABOUT DEFCON AI

RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems.
In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions.

About the Role

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As the Senior Product Designer you will own complex product experiences from discovery through delivery for a new AI-enabled decision-support system. The work today is spread across several disconnected legacy systems, and we are replacing it with a single workspace: a prioritized work queue, a unified view that pulls scattered records together, enrichment panels, and dashboards.

Design sits in the product organization here, reporting through the Product Lead alongside product ownership and quality. You will partner daily with product and engineering to define scope, tradeoffs, and priorities, and you will support engineering through implementation rather than handing off and moving on.

This is a discovery-first role. Before anything is built you will interview and observe the people who do this work, map their current process, and design the future one. That becomes an interactive prototype the customer reviews and approves before production code is written, and it is an early program deliverable, so this work starts immediately. Design artifacts on this program are formally reviewed against written criteria, which means your work carries real weight from the first week.

The core design problem is trust. The system recommends what deserves attention and explains why, and your job is to present that so a user can evaluate it rather than simply accept it: showing the supporting evidence, making uncertainty visible, and making disagreement easy. You will work alongside an existing designer and with product, engineering, and data staff.

This is a hands-on role and a senior one. You are here to do the design work, and you will own how design gets done on this program: the research approach, the patterns, and the standard the work is held to. We are building out our design practice and the person in this seat shapes it. This is a fully remote role with occasional travel (up to 25%) to DEFCON AI HQ, customer sites, and vendor facilities as required.

Responsibilities

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→Run structured discovery with end users: interviews, shadowing sessions, and workflow observation
→Produce current-state and future-state workflow maps that hold up to review by the people who do the work
→Translate mission and operational needs into interaction designs, and know which constraints are real versus assumed
→Deliver a fully interactive clickable prototype covering prioritized queues, enrichment panels, record history, and dashboards, as an early program deliverable

Design the user workspace end to end: work queue, unified record view, evidence and enrichment panels, decision flow, record history, trend views, and operational dashboards
Apply and contribute to a design system so the interface stays coherent as scope grows across releases, and so components carry forward to other products rather than being rebuilt
Design for high-volume, repetitive work: keyboard efficiency, scannability, minimal context switching, and low error rates under time pressure
Design accessible interfaces that meet Section 508 and WCAG requirements
Identify gaps in the existing experience and propose improvements rather than waiting to be assigned them

Present model recommendations, confidence, and supporting evidence so users can evaluate them rather than defer to them
Make uncertainty and gaps visible, including the case where the system returns insufficient evidence
Design the review and override path so disagreeing with the system is easy and the reason is captured
Design audit and traceability views so any conclusion can be traced back to its source records

Partner closely with product and engineering from problem definition through launch, not just at handoff
Work directly with front-end engineers and hand off designs they can build from without guessing, and improve that handoff into a dependable pipeline rather than a recurring negotiation
Review builds against the design and hold the quality bar through implementation
Present design rationale clearly enough that stakeholders can follow the reasoning, not only the result
Iterate on real usage feedback, analytics, and acceptance-testing results across multiple releases
Support training and adoption materials as the system rolls out to a wider user cohort
Partner with the existing designer on the team so the two of you cover the program rather than duplicating
Help establish the design practices we do not have yet: repeatable research habits, reusable patterns, and a cleaner handoff to front-end engineering
Raise the work of designers around you through review and collaboration as the team grows

Requirements

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Experience designing for government users, including work inside controlled environments
Experience designing review-queue, triage, or high-volume workflow interfaces
Experience designing interfaces that present AI or model output, including explainability, confidence, and human review patterns
Experience with government accessibility review and remediation
Experience running design work on a fixed-deliverable schedule with formal customer acceptance
Front-end fluency (HTML, CSS, React) sufficient to work closely with engineers
Experience with enterprise, regulated, or technically complex products
Experience contributing to or evolving a design system

What We Offer

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✓A fully remote, results-based environment

✓Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package

✓100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family

✓Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval

✓Flexible work environment where you manage your work day

✓14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave

✓Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement with strong performance as the firm grows

✓100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.

✓Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.

✓Unlimited PTO, with management approval.

✓Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.

✓Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.

✓Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.

✓Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through Crux.

✓Managing and administering your application throughout the hiring process;

✓Verifying the accuracy and authenticity of application materials, including by cross-referencing information you provide against publicly available sources and proprietary databases;

✓Identifying indicators of potentially fraudulent, fabricated, or materially misleading application content, including but not limited to discrepancies between submitted materials and publicly available professional profiles, geographic anomalies, and fabricated work histories.