Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Alight Solutions empowers clients to build healthier and more financially secure workforces by unifying benefits across health, wealth, wellbeing, navigation, and absence management. The Senior Product Designer will lead end-to-end design for AI-enabled product initiatives, develop scalable design systems and experience frameworks, and partner with cross-functional teams to deliver intuitive, accessible, and high-quality user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Lead the end-to-end design process for strategic product initiatives within an AI-enabled Product Development Life Cycle (PDLC)
- Translate user needs, business goals, and product requirements into scalable experience frameworks, wireframes, high-fidelity prototypes, and production-ready designs
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Delivery, and Enablement teams to guide AI-assisted product design workflows
- Provide clear design direction and human oversight that helps shape product strategy, ensuring every experience is aligned with product goals
- Iterate on design concepts and AI-generated outputs to ensure experiences are intuitive, accessible, scalable and consistent across products and workflows
- Own and evolve the design system, ensuring it serves as the foundation for both human and AI-generated experiences
- Ensure UI components and interaction patterns are consistent, reusable and easy for engineering teams to implement across products and workflows
- Champion accessibility by adhering to WCAG 2.1 AA standards and supporting semantic structure, clear interaction patterns, accessible keyboard and focus behavior, readable content hierarchy, sufficient contrast, and inclusive usability throughout the user experience
- Drive alignment across Product, Engineering, Research, and Content teams by proactively identifying design opportunities, clarifying ambiguous requirements, and surfacing risks early
- Partner with Product Managers to shape product strategy, collaborate with Engineering to ensure design fidelity and technical feasibility, and work closely with Research to identify gaps, validate solutions, and translate insights into product decisions
- Leverage AI to accelerate ideation, exploration and delivery while providing human oversight necessary to ensure thoughtful, high-quality user experiences
- Review AI-developed experiences to ensure alignment with user needs, UX best practices, accessibility and design system standards
- Establish quality controls that ensure AI enhances design outcomes without compromising trust and usability
- Lead design critiques, establish quality standards, advocate for user-centered decision making
- Coach team members on human and AI-assisted design methodologies
- Foster a culture where human creativity, design expertise, and responsible AI work together to deliver exceptional user experiences at scale
Skills
- Hands-on experience using Claude, Claude Design, Figma Make, Figma Design Agent (or similar AI tools) in your day-to-day design process, with an interest in designing AI-native user experiences
- Proven ability to design and deliver exceptional product experiences for web and mobile applications, combining strong design judgment, executional excellence, and AI-native workflows. We value AI fluency and the ability to leverage emerging design tools, portfolio quality, design craft, and a thoughtful approach to solving complex user problems
- Deep understanding of user-centered design principles, information architecture, interaction design, and typography
- Experience in motion design or micro-interactions
- Demonstrated experience building and scaling design systems, balancing speed, quality, and consistency in a fast-paced environment, with a strong understanding of governance and design-to-development handoff processes
- Advanced, expert-level proficiency in Figma, including variables, auto-layout, advanced prototyping, managing complex component libraries
- Basic understanding of front-end development (HTML, CSS, React)
- Applicants must reside in the United States in one of the 50 States or the District of Columbia in order to be considered for this role
- US Citizenship requirements- as this role supports services provided to the federal government and/or a federal government contractor, proof will be required to verify US citizenship status at time of hire
- Applicants for employment in the country in which they are applying (Employing Country) must have work authorization that does not, now or in the future, require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the Employing Country and with Alight
- Benefits administration experience and/or experience in user research and testing are a plus
Benefits
- Health, dental and vision coverages starting Day One.
- Wellbeing programs.
- Retirement plans with contribution matching.
- Generous time off.
- Parental leave.
- Continuing education.
- Career growth opportunities.
- Flexible working arrangements wherever possible.
- Bonus and/or incentive eligibility are determined by role and level.
- Continuing education & training.
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