# Product Designer - Company: [Authorium]() - Location: San Francisco - Remote: Yes - Team: Product - Employment type: Full Time - Salary: $125K – $135K - Posted: July 8, 2026 ## Job description ## About Authorium Authorium is the governed front door for government documents. Every consequential thing a government does starts as a document, whether a scope of work, a minimum needs statement, a bill analysis, a project charter, and it has to become governed, structured action: an approval, a procurement, a contract, a grant. We start with the document, connect it to a governed AI layer, and let it accrue the actions that turn it into a workflow. We’re investing in AI capabilities — both internally and externally — building workflows specifically for government operations, and building an AI-first operational culture to accelerate our work and go further. AI isn't a side project here - it's reshaping both what we build and how we build it. ## What a Designer is at Authorium You take an idea from a rough concept to a polished, production interface running in front of real government users, and you work highly independently through that process with a clear feedback loop. You'll lean heavily on AI-native tooling to compress that loop. We expect you to be genuinely fluent in Claude Design and comparable AI design/build tools by using them to go from prompt to prototype. The candidates we're most excited about treat AI as a force multiplier on craft, not a replacement for it. ## Why This Role Exists Government workflows are complex by nature. Our users manage procurement solicitations, evaluation scoring, contract documents, and compliance reporting and often for the first time on a digital platform. Making dense, high-stakes workflows feel navigable for people who didn't choose the tool and can't easily change their process is our baseline challenge - and an Authorium Design Engineer relishes that challenge and has a desire to live on both the design and engineering side of delivery. ## What You'll Do **Design and build, end to end** * Take features from concept through interaction design, prototyping, and have a desire to front-end implementation. * Build and maintain real interfaces in our codebase (Hotwire / Next.js), partnering with Engineering on architecture, state, and performance. * Use Claude Design and other AI tooling to move fast: rapid prototypes, multiple directions, working components and bring strong judgment about which output is actually good. **Shape the product surface** * Improve UX across the platform from intake, approvals, document generation, evaluations, configuration, and reporting including fixing inconsistencies and usability gaps as you go. * Contribute to the design system: components, patterns, and libraries that keep the product coherent and speed up everyone's delivery. You'll both *use* it and *extend* it in code. * Help shape how AI shows up in the product with making AuthorAI feel context-aware and trustworthy for users across every level of AI comfort. **Ship with quality** * Design and build for accessibility and compliance from the start (WCAG 2.1 AA) — our government customers require it. * Review your work against design intent through delivery and hold the bar on fidelity and polish. * Work in sprints; manage your work in Jira and participate in planning and grooming. **Collaborate** * Partner with PMs to frame problems and make scope tradeoffs, and with Engineering on feasibility and front-end quality. * Talk to users: lightweight usability checks, observing real workflows, and turning what you learn into better interfaces. ## What We're Looking For **Required** * **2–3 years** building digital products where you both designed *and* implemented the front end portfolios that show shipped work, not just mockups. * **Strong design craft**: interaction design, layout, and a sharp eye for detail in dense, data-heavy interfaces with tables, filters, multi-step flows, role-based views. * **Demonstrated fluency with Claude Design** (and/or comparable AI design/build tools) used as a serious part of how you ship and please show us examples. * Proficiency in Figma (components, libraries, auto-layout, prototyping). * Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward shipping and you make judgment calls with incomplete information and move between design and code in the same day. * Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA). * Clear communication as you can explain a decision in terms of user outcomes and tradeoffs, not just aesthetics. * **San Francisco Bay Area Based:** Energized by an in-office (Monday-Thursday) collaborative culture. **Nice to Have** * Experience with dense, workflow-driven enterprise / B2B products. * Exposure to government, public sector, or other regulated/compliance-driven environments. * Experience with product analytics tools (Pendo, Mixpanel, Amplitude, or similar). * Experience integrating AI features into a product UI. ## Apply [Apply on Authorium]() Canonical job page: