Senior Product Designer, (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design with Security Clearance

Location: Baltimore

Job Requirements Senior Product Designer (Senior Consultant, Experience & Design) The Product Designer is responsible for designing, maintaining, and evolving a scalable design system that enables consistent, accessible, and user-centered experiences across digital products. Working closely with Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, Content Strategists, and Accessibility specialists, this role creates reusable components, interaction patterns, and design standards that improve usability, accelerate delivery, and promote consistency across applications.

The Product Designer collaborates across multiple product teams to design cohesive experiences for shared capabilities such as navigation, authentication, search, notifications, help content, and other cross-product interactions. This role champions accessibility and inclusive design, develops design documentation and implementation guidance, and partners with engineering to ensure design system components are practical, scalable, and aligned with modern web standards. At Fearless, the Senior Consultant combines expertise in Content Design, Content Strategy, Product Design, Service Design, User Research, and UX leadership.

This role will possess the necessary skills at an advanced level of proficiency for setting the vision, strategy, and systems that guide cross-functional design teams in creating scalable, impactful, and user-centered solutions. The role requires a balance of strategic foresight, design mentorship, and hands-on expertise to deliver high-quality products and services that meet user, customer, and organizational needs. Your Responsibilities in this Role:
● Lead the evolution and governance of the organization's design system, ensuring consistency, scalability, accessibility, and usability across products.
● Define and maintain reusable UI components, interaction patterns, and implementation guidance in collaboration with design and engineering teams. Partner with engineering teams to improve shared platform capabilities, including navigation components, file upload experiences, validation patterns, and other reusable user interface elements.
● Drive cross-product user experience strategy by designing cohesive experiences that span multiple applications and user journeys.
● Collaborate across product work streams to define shared interaction models, navigation patterns, search experiences, contextual help strategies, and notification frameworks.
● Balance competing stakeholder needs while establishing scalable UX solutions that can be adopted across multiple teams and products. Ensure design decisions align with accessibility standards, usability best practices, and modern web standards.
● Lead accessibility initiatives across products, including browser compatibility, assistive technology support, email accessibility, and multilingual experiences.
● Partner closely with Product Managers, Content Strategists, Engineers, and Accessibility specialists throughout discovery, design, implementation, and validation.
● Advocate for user-centered design principles while balancing technical constraints and business objectives.
● Create documentation, standards, and implementation guidance that enable teams to consistently adopt shared design patterns.
● Review product implementations to ensure alignment with established design system standards and accessibility requirements. The Impact You Will Create in this Role:
Fearless Impact:
* Collaborates with cross functional teams

* Coach, mentor, and develop peers in a manner that allows for knowledge sharing that strengthens the design community within the organization

* Earn the trust of your customer and teammates by delivering world class services.

* Drive accountability and delivery by ensuring project objectives are not only met on time but aligned with client priorities and Fearless standards of excellence. Anticipate risks and implement proactive solutions to keep initiatives on track.

* Take ownership of risk management by monitoring deliverables across the team, identifying issues early, and coaching teammates on mitigation strategies while keeping leadership informed.

* Shape client…