Senior UX/UI Designer

Compiler is a small, woman-owned software consultancy. Compiler helps service-oriented government agencies build open source, human-centered, secure, agile solutions to support the delivery of government services that increase equity of opportunity.

Our team’s subject matter expertise in transportation, housing, and homelessness provides depth and quality to the services we design and the applications we build.

Our clients have included: City of Los Angeles, City of West Hollywood, CicLAvia, LA2050, Caltrans, California Department of Technology, County of Los Angeles, Southern California Association of Governments, MobilityData, and the California Community Foundation. Our recent work includes building and integrating payment and digital services technologies for public transportation agencies using Docker, Python/Django/Flask, and Azure.

As our only full-time UX/UI Designer, you’ll lead product design for two major portfolio projects: a transit benefit application and disaster recovery portal. The transit benefit application is grounded by multiple years of research and strategy, and supported by dedicated engineering and product teams that have dug into the details necessary for a digital government service to function well. You will guide the product design as the application scales from a successful pilot to a statewide service reaching millions of users. The disaster recovery portal project builds on the work of the transit benefits application. Both projects will include collaboration with different technical teams at the state level.

At Compiler, you’ll work with a small, dedicated team of designers, product managers, and engineers. We’re interested in building world-class digital services and innovating on public transit. In addition to our strong internal team, you’ll have access to additional external support for data privacy, data security, research or illustration.

This is a full-time, salaried position (W-2) with benefits. Full-time employment at Compiler is thirty (30) hours per week. The position is remote and based anywhere in the U.S. While it is remote, there is a strong preference for substantial overlap with Pacific Coast working hours.

- Lead design on digital service products for millions of Californians

- Develop an efficient design system and component library to support scalable, accessible products using simple web frameworks such as Bootstrap

- Create and maintain artifacts such as user flows, journey maps, service blueprints, or design specs, depending on the needs of the project

- Collaborate with product and engineering to identify product strategies or new design directions

- Create functional prototypes for user testing and stakeholder demonstrations

- Lead and collaborate on content strategy and copy when relevant

- Adhere to technical and policy constraints while ensuring design processes and outputs are both inclusive and accessible

- Work closely with engineers to ensure smooth handoffs

Required Qualifications:

- At least seven (7) years working in UX design with at least one case study demonstrating your design contributions to either a growing enterprise product or digital government service

- Experience working with enterprise-level software, or scaling an application, with a focus on design systems and UI elements

- Expertise in working with Figma, Adobe, Miro or other design tools

- Familiarity with digital productivity tools such as GitHub, Google Cloud, ClickUp

- Basic understanding of front-end development, such as HTML and CSS

- Experience or familiarity with UX writing or content strategy

- Experience with inclusive and accessible design

- Ability to conduct usability testing, work with product managers on UX research, or otherwise validate your designs

- Ability to work independently and self-direct towards goals rather than tasks

- A personal and professional commitment to anti-racist principles in your design practice

- Must be currently legally authorized to work in the United States (ie: US citizen, green card holder, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

- Experience working with or in proximity to government, such as having familiarity with USWDS, designing in compliance with state laws, or designing with accessibility for all local residents in mind

- Familiarity with PII and data privacy principles

- Comfortable planning and leading design efforts

- Create and facilitate design workshops with team, stakeholders, and/or clients, as needed

- A love of public transportation and improving quality of life for riders