# Product Designer, New Grad - US Government

**Company:** [Palantir](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/palantir)
**Location:** Washington, DC, Palo Alto, CA, New York, NY
**Role:** Product Design
**Experience:** 0+ years
**Skills:** Figma, User Research, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, TypeScript, Prototyping, Visual Design, Interaction Design, Usability Testing, contextual inquiry
**Posted:** 2024-01-02

> New grad Product Designer responsible for interaction, visual, and user research aspects of complex data-dense software interfaces at Palantir. Requires 2027 graduation, US security clearance eligibility, and a design portfolio.

## Job Description

## Core Responsibilities

- Interaction and visual design: Define early product concepts, flesh out high-level workflows and micro-interactions, execute crisp and effective visual design. Use tools such as Figma for designing and prototyping.
- User research: Conduct informal user research, visit customer offices to interview and learn from users. Pair qualitative methods (e.g., scripted usability tests, contextual inquiry) with quantitative data like product and usage metrics.
- Deliver and communicate designs: Collaborate closely with product managers and forward deployed engineers to prototype and build products. Treat them as partners.
- Awareness of how software interfaces are built: Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and TypeScript to collaborate effectively with engineers.

## What We Value

- Excellent collaboration and communication skills; ability to build relationships with engineers, PMs, and stakeholders; convey and debate design rationale.
- High empathy and dedication to the user.
- Iterative design process: Validate ideas early, seek and respond to feedback, move fast, listen, adapt, prioritize collaboration, give and receive critiques.
- Excitement for solving hard, complex problems, especially technically complex and data-dense interfaces.
- Willingness to learn, make independent decisions, and ask questions when needed.

## What We Require

- Planning on graduating in 2027.
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
- A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project (include password if protected).

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