Product Designer, New Grad - US Government

Palantir Technologies

Jan 18, 2024

Applications are closed

Job
Full-time
Entry Level
Product
Design
Washington, DC

Requirements

What We Value:
An iterative design process. You validate your ideas early (with collaborators and users) and are thoughtful and intentional in seeking and responding to feedback. You move fast, listen, and adapt. You rapidly incorporate feedback, and prioritize collaboration. You are adept at giving and receiving critiques.
Thoughtful, intentional work. You know that form advises function and usability—that the surface layer doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Your design decisions are often advised by—and will influence—engineering and business considerations.
Dedication to the user. You'll design software that changes how people use data in government, commercial, and philanthropic contexts. You strive to understand our users—who can range from a manufacturing plant worker to a pharmaceutical researcher—and fight to empower them.
Excitement for solving hard, sophisticated problems. You are excited to design for technically sophisticated and data dense interfaces. You thrive in an environment where you can jump into deep subject matter expertise to define simple, approachable, yet still powerful product experiences.
Awareness of how software interfaces are built. Familiarity with HTML, CSS, Javascript, and Typescript is appreciated. You don't need to be an expert—just fluent enough to collaborate with engineers, and know what's possible with frontend technologies.
What We Require:
Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance.
A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project. If parts of your portfolio are password-protected, please include your portfolio password under 'Additional Information' when applying.

Responsibilities

Interaction and visual design. As a product designer, you'll be involved at every stage of design work. You'll help define early product concepts, flesh out the high-level workflow and micro-interactions of a feature, and complete a streamlined and effective visual design. You will be designing and prototyping using tools such as Figma.
User research. We conduct frequent informal user research and value people who understand research processes and methodologies to achieve the right outcome. You'll often visit customer offices to interview and learn from the users we serve. You'll pair qualitative methods (e.g. scripted usability tests and contextual inquiry) with quantitative information, like product and usage metrics.
Deliver and communicate designs in close collaboration. We work closely with a variety of partners (e.g., engineers, product managers, technical program managers) to realize our design ideas and communicate your design rationale. To reach these audiences, you'll communicate your designs through a variety of methods: communicating your mockups, making prototypes, sharing a design spec.
Designers at Palantir have phenomenal autonomy over their work, so a wide skills is vital. However, many designers on the team are also passionate guides in one area. You might be the kind of designer who ships code every week, or the kind of designer who shares detailed user research findings with your team.

Palantir Technologies

Technology

Industry

1001-5000

Employees

2003

Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

At Palantir (NYSE: PLTR), we're helping the world's most important institutions use their data to solve their most urgent problems. Our software lets our customers integrate and analyze all of their data so they can answer questions that they couldn't before. From delivering disaster relief to building safer automobiles, we're honored to help make our partners better at their most important work. Together with our customers, we're building the future of national security, healthcare, energy, finance, manufacturing, and more. And we need bright minds from around the world to help us.