Senior Product Designer, Platform

Government technology has failed citizens, veterans, public servants, and service members for decades.

Kaizen powers America’s application layer. We replace the legacy systems federal agencies run on with modern software, built with craft. The ticketing platform a resident uses to visit a presidential library. The marketplace DoW uses to procure counter-drone systems to protect lives and critical infrastructure. The system a Veteran uses to access benefits. We build systems of record, of national consequence. Our AI-native modules and harness allow us to do so in weeks, not years.

This year, our revenue has grown 35x. Next year, our software will serve over 100 million Americans across dozens of federal agencies.

Founded in 2022 and based in New York City and DC, Kaizen has raised $35 million from NEA, a16z, Accel, 776, and Carpenter Capital.

Location

New York, NY (in office four days a week)

The Role

Kaizen is winning more deals than ever, and every engagement runs on Taproot, our modular platform and a library of reusable modules with the Canopy design system at its core. Blacksmith, our AI configuration system, reads a government program's requirements and assembles a working application from Taproot modules, so a new engagement starts from a running product in days instead of a blank repo.

Platform-level patterns are the starting point for every program we build. This role owns the Canopy design system and the shared platform: reusable modules and components, and the shared surfaces and patterns every delivery team builds on. It's one of the most important roles on the team, and it answers a simple question: can our platform scale at the rate we're winning work, and stay good while it does?

What You'll Do

- Own the Canopy Design System end to end: components, tokens, documentation and guidelines, built so spacing, type, states, density and accessibility are right at the source.

- Design every module and shared product surface in the Tap...