Senior Product Designer

About this role

About Authorium

Authorium is transforming how government agencies manage complex, document-centric workflows. Our platform integrates essential administrative functions — from procurement to contracting to budgeting — into a unified system that drives efficiency, compliance, and visibility for public-sector teams. We serve 500+ government agencies across 40+ states, and we're approaching Series B.

Design at Authorium

The Product team is small and high-leverage. Today it's the Head of Product, a Senior PM, and a Product Designer — and we're adding a Product Analyst. You'll join as the most senior design hire and the first design leader, reporting to the Head of Product.

We work in Figma, manage delivery in Jira, and use Pendo for product analytics. Our design system is established but growing — you'll inherit it and make it better. We ship in two-week sprints and validate with users regularly.

Government workflows are complex by nature. Our users manage procurement solicitations, evaluation scoring, contract documents, and compliance reporting — often for the first time on a digital platform. The design challenge isn't making things look good. It's making dense, high-stakes workflows feel navigable for users who didn't choose the tool and can't easily change their process.

We're also investing in AuthorAI, trained on millions of government procurement documents, to help users draft, review, and manage documents faster. You'll have a direct hand in shaping how AI shows up in the product experience.

The Role

This is a founding design leadership role. You'll own UX/UI across the entire Authorium platform — not a single product area, the whole thing. You'll also operate with the ownership and accountability of a product leader: framing problems, driving scope decisions, and carrying initiatives from inception through delivery.

You'll build the design function. That means setting the bar for quality, establishing review practices, mentoring the current designer, ...