Palantir Technologies
Product Designer, New Grad - US Government
Washington, DC | $147K - $223K
Qualifications
- Thoughtful, intentional work
- You know that form advises function and usability—that the surface layer doesn’t exist in a vacuum
- 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
- Active US Security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain a US Security clearance
- A portfolio demonstrating at least one software interface design project
Responsibilities
- On a given day, you might be: leading a design sprint for your product team; designing a micro-interaction to make a sophisticated analytical task feel simple; and/or advocating for UX consistency by creating flexible, reusable UI components
- 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
- 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
- You move fast, listen, and adapt
- You rapidly incorporate feedback, and prioritize collaboration
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Financial Services, Consulting, Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Data Analysis, Healthcare
- Public Company
- Last round: Post IPO equity
- Last round: US$ 28.8M
- Denver, Colorado
- Company Specialties:
data integration, big data, enterprise software, data analytics, data protection, and data engineering
Company information
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.
