About the Obama Foundation

At the Obama Foundation, we are guided by a core belief: that ordinary people working together can change history. Our mission is to inspire those people to take action, empower them to change their world for the better, and connect them so they can achieve more together than they can alone.

We were founded by community organizers, so when we seek change, we do it by bringing people together.

That approach begins at home, on the South Side of Chicago, where we are building the Obama Presidential Center. The Center represents a historic opportunity for Chicago: a chance to build a world-class museum and public gathering space that celebrates our nation's first African American President and First Lady, steps away from where he began his career, where she was raised, and where—together—they made their home.

But that approach extends to all our work, whether it's holding leadership training sessions in communities throughout the U.S., bringing local leaders together in countries around the world, working to support the global education of girls, or ensuring young men of color have pathways to opportunity.

As President Obama has said, "we cannot solve the challenges of our time unless we solve them together." So join us.

For more information, please visit www.obama.org.

Purpose of the Role

In this role, you will design user-centric, data-informed, and inspiring user experiences for our growing portfolio of new products aimed at scaling the Foundation's mission of inspiring, connecting, and empowering people to change their world.

The Senior Product Designer (D4) will take a fundamental part in transforming ideas, product requirements, research, data, and creative vision into tangible features, products, and services that provide clear, usable, useful and desirable outcomes in support of our north-star vision. Working across the strategic roadmap for the organization's growing portfolio of new digital products, the Senior Product Designer will be integral to scaling our mission of inspiring, empowering, and connecting people to change their world.

Reporting directly to our Staff Product Designer, the Senior Product Designer will be a key member of our Product + Technology team, working collaboratively with research, engineering, and product management.

Core Job Responsibilities

• Lead the design process on a specific product or product area connecting to broader product vision
• Lead the design thinking for complex design opportunities for myriad digital touchpoints by creating process flows, wireframes, prototypes, and high fidelity mock-ups
• Collaborate with research to iterate, ideate, and execute based on user-centric data
• Create documentation and presentations to educate out to the rest of the Foundation on our product design progress, philosophy, and vision
• Work closely with other design team members to provide comprehensive solutions for digital obstacles facing our users

Key Deliverables / Outcomes

• Deeply collaborate with staff product designers, researchers, engineers, and product managers to ship MVPs of high-priority core products and features
• Active in identifying appropriate approaches/improvements to processes, norms, and tools for a team early in its development.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience working on user-centered experiences with competencies in interaction design, UX design, visual design, and design systems
• Adept at rapid prototyping, working independently and in concert with others to test and iterate concepts
• A demonstrated track record of collaborating on and shipping successful and scalable digital products
• Strong ability to be creative and solution-oriented when problem solving in a collaborative team environment
• Exceptional communication and problem-solving skills and high-velocity UX thinking and execution
• Fluency with the design and project management tools: Figma, FigJam, Asana, Miro, Jira/Confluence, and Google Workspace
• Familiarity with agile software development and lean UX processes
• Solid technical understanding of current web and app development technologies - Specifically experience working across web, iOS, Android and an understanding of HTML/CSS
• Passion and commitment to inclusive and accessible design and familiarity with designing products that meet digital accessibility standards (WCAG 2.0 and above)
• High degree of comfort working in a fast-paced, mission-oriented, remote environment

Portfolio Review

We ask that all candidates provide a portfolio/samples of work, describing their role in applicable projects, as part of their application.

This role, reporting into the Staff Product Designer, is permanent, full-time and anticipates less than 10% of travel a month. The salary range for this role is between $100,535 and $167,558, with new staff rarely starting at the top of the range and most often targeting a mid-point of $134,046.

In the interest of employee health and safety during the pendency of the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Obama Foundation is requiring that all prospective employees present proof that they are fully-vaccinated against COVID-19, or seek a reasonable accommodation for religious or medical reasons, prior to their first day of employment.

Equal Opportunity Employer

The Foundation is committed to creating a diverse work environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. The Foundation does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, disability, parental status, veteran status, or any other protected status under applicable laws. We encourage individuals of all backgrounds to apply. If you are a qualified candidate with a disability, please e-mail us at careers@obama.org if you require a reasonable accommodation to complete this application.