Senior Product Designer

Brooklyn, United States

Who Are We?

Our Mission is to increase government transparency to connect and empower. We're building an AI platform that helps businesses and individuals make sense of messy government & court data. Executive orders, news shifts, regulations, legislation, cases - we’re making sense of it all.
Why: Corporations, law firms, non-profits, and individuals alike are still using spreadsheets and archaic government websites to understand how public policy impacts their industry. They deserve a 21st century tool that streamlines how we make sense of governing bodies, and enables a more transparent and accessible advocacy process.
Investors: $9M raised from Bonfire Ventures, Communitas (fmr CEO @Thomson Reuters), Tom Spengler (CEO @Granicus), WndrCo, Nick Allen (Founding Product Designer at Snapchat), and Hon. Tony Coelho (Former Congressman, US House Majority Whip, & Primary Sponsor of American Disabilities Act).
Customers: Include Fortune 500 Companies, AM Law 100 Global Law Firms, and Government Organizations.
Team: Passionate and hungry (both literally and figuratively), looking to build cool stuff to benefit everyone!

Role

We’re looking for our first designer hire who can own design end-to-end: facilitating and leading workshops (including discovery sessions, brainstorming exercises, and ‘how-might-we’ ideation), mapping complex user flows, crafting intuitive UIs, and delivering a design ethos and brand guide that allows anyone at the company to deliver on-brand outputs. This is a full-stack design role that spans UX strategy, UI craftsmanship, and graphic design. Holistically, the role will place a heavier emphasis on user experience, over UI.

You’ll report directly to the CEO/Co-Founder, and play a foundational role in shaping Abstract’s design language and design system. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, and marketing to build a platform that not only makes government data usable, but delightful. The product design team will remain lean as we scale, with the expectation of you being the sole designer for the foreseeable future at Abstract.

Your work will support the company’s go-to-market efforts by co-creating sales decks, marketing visuals, and graphics that communicate our value to enterprise customers.

This is an opportunity to set the design standard for an AI-first tool that is re-defining how companies, and ultimately the everyday person, interacts with their governing bodies. It’s a special time, as we have strong demand from enterprise pilots, and are on the cusp of crossing product-market fit into our Series A next.

Who you are

Experience: in product design, with at least one role at a startup that scaled past product-market fit.
UX & UI: Proven ability to own the full product design lifecycle: research, wireframes, flows, prototypes, final UI.
Workflow Design: Skilled at designing and redesigning complex user workflows, with a track record of simplifying processes and improving usability in enterprise SaaS products.
Systems Thinking: Experienced in building design systems that scale across product and marketing.
Collaboration: Strong communicator who works effectively with engineers, PMs, and GTM teams.
Tools: Expert in Figma, with familiarity in Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Canva, Webflow, Jira/Linear, and emerging AI design tools (e.g. Diagram, Galileo, Uizard, MidJourney).
Passionate: You’re passionate about politics, technology, and increasing government transparency. ??

Bonus Points

Background in legal tech, govtech, or policy-related industries.
Previous role as a founding or early designer at a startup.
Motion/animation skills for product explainers.
You like dark chocolate, bagels, or donuts.

Compensation

$110,000 - $180,000 Annual Salary
Compelling Equity

‍Perks and Benefits

‍Autonomy

Full autonomy in a high-growth startup.
Work with a small, tight-knit team, passionate about making government more transparent and accessible via thoughtful design that is relied on by countless organizations for their daily work.

Generous Time Off

Unlimited PTO & Sick Leave
Paid Federal Holidays + Election Day ????

Benefits

Health Insurance:

- Anthem Blue Cross Platinum PPO 15/40/10%
- Anthem Blue Cross Gold PPO 30/500/20%
- Anthem Blue Cross Silver PPO 45/1750/40%
- Anthem Blue Cross Bronze PPO 4600/50%‍

Dental Insurance:

- Guardian 2500 with Adult & Child Ortho‍

Vision Insurance:

- Guardian 10/20/150‍‍

‍Life Insurance:

- $100,000 Life

401(k) with a Company Match

Our plan provides you an opportunity to defer compensation for your long-term savings (Pre-tax and Roth).
We will match up to 3.5% of your total eligible compensation.

Experience introducing distributed data processing tools like Spark or Beam
Knowledge of data modeling tools and practices (e.g. dbt, data contracts)
Experience with Elasticsearch and implementing search on top of structured data
Familiarity with Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tools
Strong understanding of data security, privacy, and compliance best practices

Compensation

$160,000 - $200,000 Annual Salary
Favorable Equity

‍Perks and Benefits

Full autonomy in a high-growth startup.
Work with a small tight-knit team, passionate about making government more transparent and accessible via thoughtful design that is relied on by countless organizations for their daily work.
Unlimited PTO & Sick Leave
Paid Federal Holidays + Election Day ????
Health Insurance:

- Anthem Blue Cross Platinum PPO 15/40/10%
- Anthem Blue Cross Gold PPO 30/500/20%
- Anthem Blue Cross Silver PPO 45/1750/40%
- Anthem Blue Cross Bronze PPO 4600/50%‍

Dental Insurance:

- Guardian 2500 with Adult & Child Ortho‍

Vision Insurance:

- Guardian 10/20/150‍‍

‍Life Insurance:

- $100,000 Life

401(k) with a Company Match

- Our plan provides you an opportunity to defer compensation for your long-term savings (Pre-tax and Roth).
- We will match up to 3.5% of your total eligible compensation.

At Abstract, we're cognizant of systemic issues in our industry that have created inequalities in opportunity for many communities. We acknowledge the fact that women and underrepresented minorities are hesitant to apply for a role they feel they don't check all the boxes for. Even if you don't check all the boxes in this posting, we highly encourage you to apply anyway! It would be our pleasure to get to know you and see if you're a fit for any of our teams.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Compensation $160,000 - $200,000

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $110,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits: