Product Designer

About Authorium

Authorium is a high-growth GovTech SaaS company transforming how government agencies manage administrative operations. Our platform replaces fragmented document management solutions and decades-old legacy systems with a unified user interaction and data layer that manages billions of dollars in public funds; serving state, local, and federal agencies that in turn support millions of citizens and businesses. Authorium sits at the intersection of modernization, public service, and technology innovation like AI-enabled workflows. Our team moves fast, collaborates across teams, and builds for impact.

What a Designer is at Authorium

You take an idea from a rough concept to a polished, production interface running in front of real government users, and you work highly independently through that process with a clear feedback loop.

You'll lean heavily on AI-native tooling to compress that loop. We expect you to be genuinely fluent in Claude Design and comparable AI design/build tools by using them to go from prompt to prototype. The candidates we're most excited about treat AI as a force multiplier on craft, not a replacement for it.

What You'll Do

Design and build, end to end

• Take features from concept through interaction design, prototyping, and have a desire to front-end implementation.

• Build and maintain real interfaces in our codebase (Hotwire / Next.js), partnering with Engineering on architecture, state, and performance.

• Use Claude Design and other AI tooling to move fast: rapid prototypes, multiple directions, working components and bring strong judgment about which output is actually good.

Shape the product surface

• Improve UX across the platform from intake, approvals, document generation, evaluations, configuration, and reporting including fixing inconsistencies and usability gaps as you go.

• Contribute to the design system: components, patterns, and libraries that keep the product coherent and speed up everyone's delivery. You'll both use it and extend it in code.

• Help shape how AI shows up in the product with making AuthorAI feel context-aware and trustworthy for users across every level of AI comfort.

Ship with quality

• Design and build for accessibility and compliance from the start (WCAG 2.1 AA) — our government customers require it.

• Review your work against design intent through delivery and hold the bar on fidelity and polish.

• Work in sprints; manage your work in Jira and participate in planning and grooming.

Collaborate

• Partner with PMs to frame problems and make scope tradeoffs, and with Engineering on feasibility and front-end quality.

• Talk to users: lightweight usability checks, observing real workflows, and turning what you learn into better interfaces.

What We're Looking For

Required

• 2–3 years building digital products where you both designed and implemented the front end portfolios that show shipped work, not just mockups.

• Strong design craft: interaction design, layout, and a sharp eye for detail in dense, data-heavy interfaces with tables, filters, multi-step flows, role-based views.

• Demonstrated fluency with Claude Design (and/or comparable AI design/build tools) used as a serious part of how you ship and please show us examples.

• Proficiency in Figma (components, libraries, auto-layout, prototyping).

• Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward shipping and you make judgment calls with incomplete information and move between design and code in the same day.

• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA).

• Clear communication as you can explain a decision in terms of user outcomes and tradeoffs, not just aesthetics.

• San Francisco Bay Area Based: Energized by an in-office (Monday-Thursday) collaborative culture.

Nice to Have

• Experience with dense, workflow-driven enterprise / B2B products.

• Exposure to government, public sector, or other regulated/compliance-driven environments.

• Experience with product analytics tools (Pendo, Mixpanel, Amplitude, or similar).

• Experience integrating AI features into a product UI.