Senior UX Designer (Platform and Integrations)

Overview

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 II you will lead discovery, ideation, and execute on end-to-end design of products and product features. You will work on end-to-end projects with agency and in concert with our UX research, product management, engineering, and internal teams. You may act as a mentor to 1 to 2 designers.

With a focus on Platform and Integrations, you would have the opportunity to work with our cross-functional teams on complex, multi-channel experiences that build fundraising infrastructure for our multiple user groups. Your work would support integrations, security and our continued dedication to providing our users a safe, easy to use platform across fundraising needs.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Partner with UX research and data teams to develop and foster a deep understanding of the behaviors, needs, and motivations of our users to inform products, services, and organizational decisions.  

• Actively evangelize the use of research and data to inform decisions within your product team’s work as well as the work of your design team peers. 

• Proactively work with the research team to identify as well as conduct research studies to inform the work of your product area. 

• Lead end-to-end design process and deliver pixel-perfect user flows at various stages, including at the ideation and research phases. Partner closely with cross-functional teams through each stage of the design process to deliver UX between various stages. 

• Contribute to the architecture of product spaces with limited guidance. And also play an active role in influencing best practices that guide and inform the standard of information architecture delivered by the design team. 

• Lead the end-to-end design process of your product space, including working with cross-functional partners to define timelines, trade-offs, constraints, etc. 

• Contribute to the ATS Design System through project work in exploring and delivering solutions for components and styles.  

• Proactively implement and follow our organizational design principles and industry best practices keeping the best interests of the user at the forefront. 

• Build and foster a strong design and research team culture as a key participant in team crits, providing constructive feedback and keeping research and data at the forefront. 

WHAT YOU BRING:

• Experience working with remote, geographically distributed, cross-functional teams on complex product features.

• Experience leading end-to-end delivery of products, starting from ideation and discovery to pixel-perfect mocks. 

• Experience leading discovery, ideation and user research sessions.

• Experience working with cross-functional teams on product ideas and pitches, including the design and delivery of MVPs.

• You bring a user-first approach to UX design, grounding decisions in research and data. You have experience in incorporating research into your design process to inform UX decisions.

• You’re a strong storyteller with experience in presenting to audiences at multiple levels of the organization.

• Experience mentoring junior designers.

• You’re comfortable working in a culture of feedback and approach conflict with curiosity.

• You’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 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 tech stacks and are not afraid to dive in with curiosity to areas beyond your comfort.  

WHAT YOU'LL BE WORKING WITH:

• Design stack: Figma, Adobe Suite, Miro

• Tech stack: Storybook, Styled Components, React, and other modern front-end technologies

OUR DESIGN PRINCIPLES:

• We believe that ideas are more important than tools or technologies.
• We believe in humanizing our work by designing for accessibility and inclusion.
• We believe in high-level thinking as well as being detail-oriented; we focus on pixel-level details and microinteractions while also considering how details can ripple out at scale.
• We believe that being correct isn’t enough; respect for your colleagues and users is fundamental.

OUR ENGINEERING VALUES:

• We believe that ideas are more important than technologies.
• We understand that the tools we build have real-world consequences for millions of people and take that responsibility seriously.
• Security is at the center of everything we do. We are always on the lookout for ways to further harden our platform.
• We know that code isn’t just a set of instructions for machines, but communication with other humans; style, elegance, and respect are important.
• We believe that an ability to balance paying off technical debt and rapidly completing a project contributes to the health of the codebase, engineering team, and organization.
• We believe that being correct isn’t enough; respect for your colleagues and users is fundamental.

LOCATION AND COMPENSATION:

This posting is for a full-time, remote, salaried position. ActBlue is currently authorized to support remote work employees in California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin.

Salary Range:
Senior Designer II: $162,027 – $178,971

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 and  celebrate each person’s  unique qualities. 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 for our online job application system. If you would like to request an accommodation when applying, please contact us at recruitment@actblue.com.

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