Senior Product Designer - Clearance Required

LMI is a digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. We bring commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies, enhancing outcomes through proven expertise in federal deployment and strategic relationships. Serving the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors, LMI helps agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, we deliver impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Product Designer to shape the applications, workflows, and user experiences supporting a U.S. Army enterprise data environment. You will collaborate with software engineers, data engineers, product leaders, and Army stakeholders to transform complex operational needs into clear, useful software built for real-world use. This hands-on design role spans product discovery through delivery, helping define what should be built, creating and testing design concepts, and remaining engaged as working software reaches users. An active Secret clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead product design for data-intensive applications and operational workflows.
• Work directly with users and mission stakeholders to understand their goals, constraints, and current ways of working.
• Translate user needs into product concepts, workflows, prototypes, and detailed interaction designs.
• Partner with product and engineering teams to define requirements, evaluate tradeoffs, and deliver usable software.
• Plan and conduct user research, usability testing, and design validation.
• Simplify complex data, processes, and technical capabilities into clear user experiences.
• Contribute to shared design patterns and a consistent design system across applications.
• Support the modernization or replacement of functionality currently delivered through legacy platforms.
• Incorporate accessibility, security, and federal usability requirements throughout the design process.
• Use feedback and product performance data to improve deployed capabilities.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in product design, interaction design, human-computer interaction, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• Seven or more years of experience designing digital products or complex enterprise applications.
• A portfolio demonstrating strong interaction design, systems thinking, and delivery of software used in production.
• Experience conducting user research and translating findings into actionable product decisions.
• Proficiency with modern collaborative design and prototyping tools.
• Experience working closely with software engineers throughout product development.
• Experience designing data-rich interfaces, workflows, or decision-support applications.
• Experience supporting a Department of Defense customer.
• Active Secret clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting the U.S. Army.
• Experience designing software for operational, logistics, readiness, or enterprise-data use cases.
• Experience working in integrated product teams using iterative software-development practices.
• Familiarity with AWS, Palantir Foundry, Army Vantage, or comparable enterprise platforms.
• Experience creating or extending design systems.
• Familiarity with Section 508 and accessible design practices.
• Experience modernizing complex or legacy enterprise applications.

Pay

Target salary range: $111,426 – $192,890

Schedule

Job location: US-VA-Newport News