- Act as the primary design voice for your Squad, partnering directly with clients to understand their users, business goals, and constraints
- Lead end-to-end design from discovery through delivery — research, wireframes, prototypes, high-fidelity UI, and post-launch iteration
- Conduct or guide user research and usability testing to validate directions and uncover new opportunities
- Build and maintain scalable design systems and component libraries that hold up as products grow
- Translate complex, 0-to-1 problems into simple, intuitive product experiences
- Partner closely with product and engineering to ensure designs are technically feasible and shipped with high fidelity to the original vision
- Present and defend design decisions to clients and stakeholders with clear rationale grounded in user needs and data
- Contribute to internal design standards, critique culture, and processes that raise the bar across Aligned's Squads
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