Senior/Staff/Principal Product Designer (ACF)

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help government agencies deliver better public services.

We’re at the forefront of a civic movement to reinvent how all levels of government serve families, patients, and many others in today's digital world.

If you want to play a part in driving this critical movement forward, we’d love for you to join our growing team of public interest technologists.

The work we do matters.

At Skylight, product designers advocate for users, uncover opportunities, and turn insights into designs that improve how government delivers services. They work end-to-end, from research and concepts through implementation, ensuring services are usable, accessible, and sustainable.

As a product designer on this project, you’ll collaborate across disciplines to research user needs, define flows and interactions, and design accessible interfaces that scale. You’ll contribute to and evolve design systems, prototype ideas to reduce risk, and ensure design decisions are grounded in evidence. Just as importantly, you’ll prepare federal teams to sustain these improvements by sharing knowledge and practices that last — from training and enablement to reusable tools like templates, playbooks, and decision records.

In this role, you'll hit the ground running in a fast-moving, cross-functional environment — coordinating immediately with researchers, designers, engineers, and government stakeholders to deliver against an ambitious vision from day one. This role sits at the intersection of product strategy, change management, enablement, and service delivery, and demands someone who can orient quickly, build trust across teams, and ensure new digital capabilities are not only built, but understood, usable, and sustained.

• →Partner with product managers, engineers, and researchers to shape product strategy and ensure solutions meet user needs
• →Plan and conduct research to uncover needs, policies, and operational constraints, then synthesize findings into actionable insights and artifacts
• →Define end-to-end flows and interaction patterns that scale across complex systems and service journeys
• →Create interfaces that are clear, usable, and accessible, while evolving design systems for reuse and consistency
• →Prototype quickly and iteratively — from sketches to clickable mockups — to validate ideas and reduce risk
• →Build accessibility, privacy, and security into designs from the start, including Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act (Section 508) standards
• →Align design decisions with measurable outcomes such as objectives and key results (OKRs) and key performance indicators (KPIs)
• →Help federal teams sustain improvements by delivering training and enablement, and by leaving behind reusable resources such as templates, playbooks, and decision records

• Experience defining creative direction, leading the creation of visual identity and design systems. Specifically for a teen and young adult demographic, using iconography and intuitive visuals
• Experience planning, conducting, and synthesizing research to inform product design
• Ability to design scalable end-to-end flows and interactions grounded in usability and accessibility best practices
• Skills in creating interfaces with clear information hierarchy, visual design, and maintainability in mind
• Familiarity with structured design processes and how to apply them in lean/agile environments
• Strong facilitation and communication skills with users, teammates, and stakeholders
• Commitment to equipping federal teams with documentation, training, and mentoring so improvements last beyond the contract
• Ability to work effectively in a professional services environment
• Passion for improving public outcomes through great government services
• A mindset and work approach that align with Skylight’s core values

• Experience designing for modernization in complex or regulated environments
• Familiarity with compliance and security contexts such as Authority to Operate (ATO) processes
• Experience contributing to or maintaining design systems at scale
• Background working closely with technical counterparts to ensure clarity and inclusivity in complex workflows
• Track record of mentoring designers and building design practices across organizations
• Experience working effectively on hybrid or distributed teams

Don’t meet every qualification but think you can do the job? We’d still love to hear from you. If you’re excited about the role, apply. We consider candidates with a range of backgrounds and experiences.

• All work must be conducted within the U.S., excluding U.S. territories. Some federal contracts require U.S. citizenship to be eligible for employment.
• You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship.
• As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance.
• You may be required to complete a company background check successfully.
• Some of our available roles are on federal contracts that require a degree or additional years of experience as a substitute.

This is a full-time, exempt position.

This is a fully remote role.

We want to give you the most competitive salary possible. After all, you deserve it! To that end, we use the results of our interview process to determine what salary is most appropriate given your current level of seniority. For a Product Designer at Skylight, the current salary ranges are as follows:

• Associate Product Designer: $90,000–$125,000
• Product Designer I: $120,000–$140,000
• Product Designer II: $135,000–$160,000
• Senior Product Designer: $150,000–$185,000
• Staff Product Designer: $170,000–$203,000
• Principal Product Designer: $180,000–$230,000

• Visit our join page to learn more about how our interview process works.
• Check out our Career Pathways framework to learn more about the different roles within Skylight and the skills needed to do them.
• Please include a portfolio of 1–2 work samples with your application. Your portfolio can be anything from a website to a slide deck — whatever best showcases your work. We suggest choosing work samples that highlight your skills and experience in relation to the qualifications outlined in the job posting. Unless specified in the job requirements, your portfolio doesn’t need to be tied to any particular industry or field — just select samples that best represent your expertise. To ensure we can review your application promptly, please remove any access passwords on your portfolio or provide access details.
• If you’d like to request reasonable accommodations during the application or interviewing process, please contact our recruiting team at recruiting@skylight.digital.

We participate in E-Verify and upon hire, will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you’re authorized to work in the U.S.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, religion, age, disability, veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable law.