Product Designer Job at Aquent (Reston)

Product Designer

Aquent

Location:
United States , Reston

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

91.35 - 101.50 USD / Hour

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Job Description:

Partner with Aquent to join a leading mission-driven organization dedicated to fostering equitable experiences and educational opportunities through innovative digital solutions. This organization impacts millions by creating accessible, high-quality content and experiences across web and mobile platforms. We are seeking a visionary and empathetic designer to join a dynamic team as a key contributor. In this role, you will be instrumental in shaping the future of digital learning and engagement, directly influencing how users interact with complex, content-rich applications. Your expertise will drive the creation of intuitive, inclusive, and impactful products that truly meet real user needs and advance educational equity. As a core member of our cross-functional teams, you will play a pivotal role in the entire product lifecycle, from initial discovery and strategy to polished, production-ready designs. You will advocate for users, ensuring that every design decision contributes to a seamless, equitable, and engaging experience. Your work will directly enhance how users learn, grow, and achieve their goals through our digital platforms.

Job Responsibility:

Contribute meaningfully to early-stage discovery and strategic design efforts, partnering with cross-functional teams to explore opportunities and define direction
Lead and contribute to design sprints, envisioning sessions, and workshops to explore problem spaces, generate ideas, and align teams around shared outcomes
Synthesize research, usability findings, behavioral data, and operational inputs into clear, insight-driven design directions
Utilize qualitative and quantitative data to inform, validate, and refine design decisions throughout the product lifecycle
Champion human-centered, inclusive design practices grounded in accessibility standards to ensure solutions meet diverse user needs
Communicate design rationale, insights, and vision clearly through compelling artifacts, narratives, and presentations
Deliver high-quality UI designs with strong visual hierarchy, interaction clarity, and meticulous attention to detail across web and native mobile experiences
Apply design system components, patterns, and tokens accurately, while actively identifying gaps and opportunities for improvement within robust web and native mobile design systems
Plan, conduct, and synthesize usability testing to validate flows, components, and interactions, driving iterative design improvements
Create prototypes at appropriate fidelity to explore, test, and communicate design solutions effectively
Design and test experiences using inclusive design principles informed by accessibility standards, applying plain language to support clarity and comprehension
Design for responsive, mobile-first web experiences and native mobile applications
Partner closely with product managers, engineers, researchers, and stakeholders throughout discovery, design, and delivery phases
Maintain organized, well-documented design files and artifacts to support efficient collaboration and continuity
Follow established team workflows and design processes, while providing constructive feedback to improve team operations
Actively participate in standups, sprint planning, design reviews, critiques, and QA cycles
Translate design decisions into clear, implementation-ready specifications and annotations
Communicate ideas, research insights, and design solutions with clarity and confidence in both synchronous and asynchronous settings

Requirements:

A strong portfolio showcasing your product design work, including UX and UI expertise
Bachelor’s degree in a related field (interaction design, HCI, industrial design, information science, social sciences, computer science, graphic design, etc.) and/or equivalent years of work experience
3–7 years of experience in product or service design
Strong product design mindset with extensive experience designing for complex, content-rich websites and applications, including data-heavy dashboards
Proficiency in design thinking and human-centered methodologies, with the ability to translate insights into actionable design direction
Excellent skills in creating and communicating design artifacts, including information design, user flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity UI designs
Extensive experience working within robust design systems for both web and native mobile platforms
Strong understanding of responsive design, inclusive design principles, and accessibility standards
Experience planning, leading, and conducting focus groups, interviews, and usability testing, and incorporating findings into design decisions
Fluency in industry-standard design tools including Figma, Figjam, Miro, AdobeCC, and user research platforms like Lovable, DScout, User Insight, Zeplin, and Lyssna
Strong initiative and clear, effective communication skills, coupled with a collaborative, user-advocacy mindset
Comfort collaborating with engineers and discussing technical constraints
Curiosity and adaptability, with interest in emerging tools and trends

Nice to have:

Experience leveraging AI tools to support ideation, prototyping, exploration, and iteration as an accelerator for design workflows
Familiarity with front-end technologies

What we offer:

Subsidized health, vision, and dental plans
Paid sick leave
Retirement plans with a match

Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 09, 2026

Work Type:

Remote work

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Product Designer

Aquent

Location:
United States , Reston

Category:
IT - Software Development

Contract Type:
Not provided

Salary:

Job Description:

Job Responsibility:

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Additional Information:

Job Posted:
January 09, 2026

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