Product Designer - US Government

The role

You will design the human experience of Palantir's software. Your work covers interaction and visual design, user research, prototyping, and partnering with engineers.

What you will do

• Take part in every stage of design work, from early product concepts to visual design
• Define the high-level workflow and micro-interactions of features
• Execute crisp and effective visual designs
• Run informal user research, including visits to customer offices
• Pair qualitative methods such as usability tests and contextual inquiry with product and usage metrics
• Prototype to communicate and validate design decisions
• Collaborate with product and forward deployed engineers to build products
• Create flexible, reusable UI components
• Lead design sprints for your product team
• Give and receive design critiques

Required qualifications

• Active US Security clearance, or eligibility and willingness to obtain one
• A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project
• Experience with some mockup and prototyping tools: Sketch, Framer, Principle, Figma, Invision
• An iterative design process that validates ideas early with stakeholders and users
• Ability to build relationships with engineers, PMs and other stakeholders and explain design rationale
• Ability to communicate designs through mockups, prototypes and design specs
• Flexibility with research processes and methodologies

Nice to have

• Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript and Typescript (not required to be an expert)

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision insurance, plus voluntary life insurance for employees and eligible dependents
• Basic life, AD&D and disability insurance, automatically covered
• Commuter benefits
• Relocation assistance
• Take-what-you-need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off at year end (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Leave of absence program, including military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits, including adoption, surrogacy and preservation
• Stipend for expenses that come with a new child
• 401k plan

Before you apply

• An active US Security clearance is required, or you must be eligible and willing to obtain one
• If parts of your portfolio are password-protected, include the password under 'Additional Information' when applying
• Palantir will never ask you to submit a payment or share financial information during interviews

About the company

Palantir builds software for data-driven decisions and operations, used by partners to develop drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions and locate missing children. Its design team values trust, integrity, empathy and growth.