Cleared Staff Product Designer - Portfolio Lead (Colorado Springs)

• You want to make tomorrow better than today. 
• You have a passion for high-speed security and you care about risk management over compliance.
• You believe the biggest vulnerability in any system is time. You live to securely reduce cycle time.
• You enjoy daily decision making and real product delivery.
• You help ensure project success and client satisfaction. 
• You enjoy collaborative teams, pairing with team members, and inviting your clients to participate. 
• You like to work alongside, and learn from, lean and agile leaders. 
• You are a creative problem solver who is comfortable with uncertainty.
• You’re a curious and keen learner who thrives on enhancing your (and our) practices and knowledge.

At Rise8, we inspire change in software cultures to prioritize rapid delivery of end-user outcomes. As a Designer here, you'll transform clients unfamiliar with design-thinking and user research into agile and empathetic problem-solvers. Your role involves hands-on work and mentorship around User Centered Design principles, "double diamond" processes, and establishment of feedback loops through research and prototyping.

We value versatile, "full stack" Product Designers that own the holistic user experience for their product or service. Our Designers are researchers, service designers, brand strategists, and interface designers, all in one. Each project will require a different blend of skills depending on client needs. While not required to be an expert in all areas, a growth mindset to develop in less familiar domains is essential.

Designers will spend most of their time embedded in a cross-functional team for a single product or service. As such, we come together as a broader Rise8 design community to share and evolve our practices across teams.

Because Rise8 is a professional services company focused on improving the software delivery practices of customer organizations, growing in your career here means having more of an impact as a consultant.

At Rise8, our Staff Product Designers are expected to be “full-stack” design leads that have an impact across multiple teams. Staff Product Designers are typically working with customer design leaders helping transform the culture of their design organizations. Depending on customer needs, the role could be a mixture of design product leadership and design people leadership. As a product leader, a Staff Product Designer may help contribute to greater design consistency across products in a software portfolio, scale an organization’s research operations, and evaluate the user experience across an ecosystem of processes to define project intake and portfolio strategy. On the people and practice-focused side, a Staff Product Designer may coach and mentor other designers, create onboarding programs, and cultivate a learning environment where designers grow and thrive in their practices.

• 10+ years experience in a product design, UX, or related field. 
• Experience managing a team.
• Experience working with clients or stakeholders in a consulting role.
• Experience coaching & mentoring others in lean, agile and user-centric design practices.
• Bring deep experience in User Research and Service Design.
• Strong facilitation skills.
• Experience leading product design from research through implementation.
• Experience designing different applications for different use cases (consumer facing to internal tools).
• Experience using modern design systems and frameworks (eg. iOS, Android, Bootstrap, Material Design, Tailwind, USWDS, etc.)
• Active leader in a design community.
• Ability to work on-site a few days a week in Colorado Springs, CO
• Ability to travel occasionally for Rise8 company events
• Currently holds a TS security clearance.

• Have experience coaching design leaders in user-centered design practices through “pairing” enablement.
• A toolbox of various talks and workshops you’ve led to improve design practices in an organization.
• Knowledge of front-end development and CSS
• Experience working on cross functional software teams
• Experience with DoD, especially at a DoD "Software Factory."

The annual salary range for this role as it is posted is $156,696.12 to $235,044.18 regardless of final candidate location within the United States. The final job level and annual salary will be determined based on the education, qualification, knowledge, skills, ability, and experience of the final candidate(s), and calibrated against relevant market data and internal team equity. 

• Flexible schedule in a 100% distributed workforce 
• Premium Insurance: We cover up to 100% of the employee premium and up to 80% of the combined dependent premium on our base health plan, depending on pay band. We also cover 100% of the premium for employee and dependent Dental and Vision as well as employee premiums for Life and Disability coverage.
• Retirement: 401k match at 10% gross pay.
• Paid time off (PTO): 4 weeks combined accrued vacation and sick leave, 10 Federal holidays, your birthday, jury duty, and bereavement.
• Education & Training: Accrued budget of up to $3,500 per year for classes, travel, events, and materials.
• Home Office and Merch: We offer $750 per year for home office technology and equipment as well as $100 per year for Rise8 merch from our Swag Store.
• Wellness Budget: To encourage and support a well-rounded healthy lifestyle, we cover 100% reimbursement on a variety of wellness activities and products, up to $500 per calendar year. 
• Rise8 is part of the Life Time Corporate Partner program. In lieu of your $500 annual wellness benefit, you can instead get a $75 monthly credit towards a Life Time membership ($900 annual benefit).
• Equipment: We offer a MacBook Pro