Product Designer (1099 Contract) | Active Secret Clearance Required

The role

A mid-level Product Designer will own end-to-end design for one or more product areas. You will work with engineers, product, and subject-matter experts to create interfaces for complex operational problems.

What you will do

• Own the design of features from discovery through shipped implementation
• Design for complexity including data-dense tables, map and timeline views, and simulation outputs
• Contribute to and extend the design system in Figma and partner with engineering on React/TypeScript implementation
• Run lightweight discovery with SMEs and end users
• Design authentication flows, role-based access control, permissions, and audit-friendly interactions
• Meet WCAG 2.1 AA and Section 508 accessibility requirements
• Give and receive critique and present work to non-designers

Required qualifications

• 4–5 years of product design experience shipping software
• Portfolio demonstrating process and decision-making
• Strong proficiency in Figma including components, variants, auto-layout, and variables
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining a design system
• Experience designing complex, information-dense applications
• Working knowledge of front-end concepts including component structure, state, responsive behavior, and design tokens
• Experience using discovery, user research, or competitive analysis
• Strong cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work independently
• Strong storytelling, presentation, written, and asynchronous communication skills
• Active Secret clearance
• U.S. citizenship

Nice to have

• A clearance above Secret (Top Secret or TS/SCI)
• Prior work on defense, government, or other regulated or compliance-heavy products
• Experience contributing code to a design system or front-end codebase (React, TypeScript, CSS)
• Familiarity with map-based interfaces, scheduling and timeline UI, or simulation and modeling tools
• Experience designing for classified or air-gapped environments, or working within FedRAMP and IL5 constraints

About the company

Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security.