Senior UI/UX Designer - AI Product (LIGER)

We're looking for a senior product designer to lead the design of LIGER, an AI platform that helps government analysts work smarter with large language models. You'll be the design lead on a dedicated product trio (PM, design, engineering), owning the end-to-end user experience from discovery through delivery.

This is a hands-on role. You'll spend most of your time in Figma - wireframing, prototyping, iterating based on user feedback, and collaborating directly with engineers to ship. If you're looking for a role where you manage other designers or focus primarily on strategy and stakeholder communication, this isn't it. If you want to actually design software that solves hard problems, keep reading.

LIGER sits within LMI's Chief Technology Office. We're a small, high-visibility team building AI tools for federal agencies. The culture is more startup than traditional government contractor - we move fast, solve problems in design spikes rather than scheduled reviews, and care more about outcomes than process. That said, we're building for users who need reliability and trust, so craft and attention to detail matter.

You'll report to the product manager and work daily with a tight engineering team that's eager to collaborate with design. This is a greenfield opportunity to shape a product from its foundation.

This is a 100% remote role with quarterly travel for in person team planning and collaboration events.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors-helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

What You'll Do

*Own the design vision for LIGER 2.0, a ground-up redesign of our product
*Work directly with your PM and engineering lead in fast, iterative cycles - think daily collaboration, not weekly handoffs
*Translate complex AI/ML capabilities into intuitive user experiences that don't require a PhD to understand
*Support user research and usability testing with stakeholders to validate design decisions
*Build and maintain a coherent design system that scales as the product grows
*Ship work that matters - we measure success by user outcomes, not pixel-perfect comps that never see production

What We're Looking For

*7+ years of product design experience, with a portfolio that demonstrates craft and range
*Deep fluency in Figma - you should be faster in Figma than you are explaining what you want to build
*Experience designing complex, data-rich applications (enterprise SaaS, workflow tools, analytics platforms, or similar)
*Comfort with ambiguity and fast iteration; you've worked in environments where requirements evolve and speed matters
*Strong opinions on UX, loosely held - you'll advocate for users fiercely but collaborate gracefully when constraints require tradeoffs
*Ability to articulate design rationale to technical and non-technical stakeholders without slides and ceremonies

What Will Set You Apart

*Interaction design experience - you think in flows, states, and micro-interactions, not just static screens
*Experience designing knowledge management systems, workflow tools, or document-centric applications
*Background in information architecture for complex systems
*You've worked in a true product trio model and loved it