Senior UX Designer

The Senior UX Designer shapes how users experience bethepeople.org, building engagement, clarity, and excitement around the Be The People movement. You will partner with product, engineering, and content on iterative design, ranging from journey-level rethinking to weekly content and interface improvements informed by real user behavior. 

This is an ideal role for a customer-focused UX professional, enthusiastic about building a digital product that inspires bottom-up civic action. 

About Be The People 

Led by a growing coalition of civic, cultural, business, and community leaders, Be The People connects organizations in communities across the country with millions of Americans ready to do their part to help solve the problems holding people back and invites them to share their stories and inspire others to do the same.   

Launched this year, this is a 10-year movement that will activate 205M Americans and 900K leaders through a powerful combination of national storytelling and bottom-up civic action.

• Lead UX design for assigned areas of the Be The People platform 

• Run discovery alongside the Product team, including user interviews, usability testing, and concept validation 

• Design at multiple altitudes: end-to-end journeys, page-level flows, and weekly content updates 

• Partner with the engineering team to guide implementation and the design system as the platform evolves 

• Bring content design judgment to the platform; partner with content owners on voice and clarity 

• Contribute to design ops practice, including patterns, documentation, and review rituals. 

• Drive a design culture that supports iterative, evidence-driven product development and creating delightful experiences for users 

• 5+ years of product design experience on consumer-facing digital products 

• Strong portfolio across journey, interface, and content design 

• Fluency in responsive/mobile design, interaction design, and information architecture 

• Substantial experience running usability research, user behavior analytics tools, and turning qualitative and quantitative findings into design decisions 

• Fluency in Figma and modern design system practices, as well as rapid prototyping 

• Track record of close partnership with engineering teams on iterative delivery 

• Background in a startup, early-stage, or entrepreneurial environment 

• Track record of using AI-enabled tools and practices to accelerate your work 

• Deep experience in accessible design principles and inclusive standards 

• Enthusiasm to contribute to Stand Together's vision and principled approach to solving problems, and a commitment to stewarding our culture, which champions values including transformation and innovation, entrepreneurialism, humility, and respect

• Experience with civic tech, advocacy platforms, or social impact digital products 

• Workshop facilitation, design sprint experience, voice of the customer facilitation 

• Growth or activation-focused design 

• Motion/interaction design skills 

• Behavioral design or persuasive design background