Senior Product Designer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Product Designer with Security Clearance
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Job Description Tria Federal is seeking a Senior Product Designer to guide human-centered design efforts for a new product team supporting a large-scale federal healthcare modernization initiative. This role will serve as the design lead embedded within a product team, responsible for integrating design thinking and human-centered practices directly into the software development lifecycle. You will help ensure that user needs, operational workflows, and regulatory requirements are clearly understood and reflected in product decisions from discovery through delivery.

This role requires a T-shaped design leader who can lead both research and design activities while collaborating closely with specialists across the broader Human Experience team. The ideal candidate is comfortable planning and conducting research when needed, synthesizing insights into actionable design direction, and translating those insights into intuitive product experiences. You will work closely with UX researchers, designers, product managers, and engineers to ensure user insights and human-centered design practices shape product decisions across the delivery lifecycle.

In addition to driving design for your product team, you will collaborate with designers and researchers across the program to ensure consistent experience quality, shared design practices, and alignment across multiple product teams. As part of Tria’s Human Experience Practice, you will also contribute to the continued evolution of modern, AI-augmented human-centered design capabilities within federal digital services. Must be a U.S. Citizen due to federal security clearance requirements.

Responsibilities
* Product Team Design Leadership
* Serve as the primary UX design lead embedded within a product team.
* Integrate design, discovery, and usability considerations directly into Agile product development processes.
* Translate complex regulatory, operational, and business requirements into usable interaction models and product workflows.
* Lead the creation and iteration of user flows, information architecture, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups, interactive prototypes, journey maps, and service blueprints.
* Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to clarify requirements, reduce ambiguity, and support informed product decisions.
* Ensure user needs and research insights are incorporated into backlog refinement, sprint planning, and roadmap conversations.
* Design solutions that support accessibility, equity, and compliance with Section 508 and WCAG standards.
* Evaluate implemented solutions to ensure alignment with design intent and usability best practices.
* Identify opportunities to improve usability, reduce administrative burden, and streamline complex professional workflows.
* Research and Design Leadership
* Lead discovery and research activities to better understand user needs, workflows, and operational challenges.
* Plan and facilitate research methods such as user interviews, usability testing, workflow analysis, and concept validation sessions.
* Synthesize research insights into clear design opportunities and product recommendations.
* Translate research findings into experience concepts, interaction models, product workflows, and prototype solutions.
* Collaborate with UX researchers when specialized or large-scale research initiatives are required.
* Ensure research insights are incorporated into design decisions, backlog refinement, and product roadmap conversations.
* Guide teams in connecting research insights to product decisions and design direction.
* Cross-Team Collaboration
* Collaborate with UX researchers to incorporate user insights into product design decisions.
* Partner with specialized UX researchers, designers, and analytics teams across the program to coordinate research efforts and ensure insights inform product design decisions.
* Work closely with other…