Senior Product Designer (UX) - Clearance Required

TL;DR

Senior Product Designer (UX) - Clearance Required (AI decision-support): Designing a unified workspace for an AI-enabled decision-support system with an accent on workflow research, data-dense interfaces, explainable model output, and accessible interaction design. Focus on mapping complex operational processes, designing trust and override patterns, and delivering customer-approved prototypes through production with minimal rework.

Location: Remote within the USA, with occasional travel of up to 25% to DEFCON AI headquarters, customer sites, and vendor facilities. US citizenship and an active US Top Secret clearance with CAC eligibility are required; clearance sponsorship is not available.

Salary: $180,000–$215,000 per year, plus bonus and equity.

Company

hirify.global is an incubation firm building technology companies across healthcare, cybersecurity, and national security; DEFCON AI develops AI, optimization, analytics, and software solutions for resilient decision-making.

What you will do

• Lead discovery through interviews, shadowing, workflow observation, and current- and future-state process mapping.
• Design an end-to-end workspace covering prioritized queues, unified records, evidence and enrichment panels, dashboards, history, and decision flows.
• Create interactive prototypes in Figma or an equivalent tool for early customer review and formal acceptance.
• Design explainable AI experiences that show recommendations, confidence, evidence, uncertainty, audit trails, and review or override paths.
• Partner with product, engineering, data staff, users, and subject-matter experts from problem definition through launch.
• Establish reusable design practices, design-system patterns, research methods, and reliable handoff and quality-review processes.

Requirements

• 8+ years of product or UX design experience with a portfolio of shipped, complex applications used for real operational work.
• End-to-end ownership of data-dense, workflow-heavy enterprise interfaces, including queues, dashboards, case or record views, role-based access, and data visualization.
• Direct user research, information architecture, strong visual craft, interactive prototyping, and design-system experience.
• Experience designing accessible interfaces meeting Section 508 and WCAG requirements.
• Hands-on senior-level design leadership in an environment without an established design practice; this is not a design management role.
• US citizenship and an active US Top Secret clearance with CAC eligibility are mandatory.

Nice to have

• Experience designing for government users or controlled environments.
• Experience with triage, review-queue, high-volume workflow, or AI explainability interfaces.
• Government accessibility remediation and formal customer-acceptance experience.
• Front-end fluency in HTML, CSS, and React.
• Experience with enterprise, regulated, technically complex products, or evolving design systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote, results-based work environment with flexible control over the workday.
• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and families.
• Unlimited PTO with manager approval.
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave.
• Professional development opportunities, optional 401(k), FSA, equity incentives, and mental health benefits.