UX Design Lead
Arlington, Virginia
Marketing & Communications – Growth /
Full-time /
On-site
Stand Together is a philanthropic community that helps America’s boldest changemakers tackle the root causes of our country’s biggest problems, from education to the economy, broken communities, and toxic division, among dozens of other pressing issues. We provide our partners with access to resources including funding, thought leadership, a network of peers, and a playbook for applying proven principles to transform lives and society.
As our digital organization grows in scale and maturity, we’re investing in strategic leadership to deepen our design capabilities and enhance cross-functional collaboration. As a UX Design Lead, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping principled, user-centered experiences that support Stand Together’s mission while elevating the quality and cohesion of our digital platforms. You’ll act as a design strategist, facilitator, and thought partner—bringing structure to early discovery efforts, guiding collaboration, and translating audience needs into meaningful digital experiences.
This role expands our design capacity and is key to shaping the future of our digital product team. It offers an opportunity to strengthen our UX practice, mentor others, and embed design thinking into how we solve problems and serve our audiences. As we transition from a start-up mindset to a more structured and scalable model, your leadership will help uncover the right problems, co-create impactful solutions, and deliver digital experiences that connect user needs with organizational goals.
How You Will Contribute
- Champion a user-centered design mindset across digital product initiatives, ensuring experiences are intuitive, accessible, and aligned with audience needs - all in service of advancing the organization’s mission.
- Serve as both a strategic voice and hands-on contributor in shaping the digital UX - blending design execution, brand alignment, and marketing-driven storytelling to drive audience engagement and social impact.
- Lead early-stage discovery and design strategy efforts in parallel with delivery planning, partnering closely with product, research, content, and engineering stakeholders.
- Facilitate workshops and co-creation sessions to guide collaborative problem framing, user-focused exploration, and design direction.
- Define and oversee core elements of our experience design toolkit, including user flows, wireframes, site architecture, content patterns, and design system components.
- Maintain curiosity around emerging tools, including AI, to support faster concepting, prototyping, and innovative design thinking.
- Improve design rigor, cohesion, and quality across breakpoints, while guiding consistency between Figma, Storybook, and Production.
- Act as a systems thinker, connecting design to audience segmentation, personalization opportunities, and broader platform strategy.
What You Will Bring
- 10+ years of UX design experience, including strategic problem solving in cross-functional leadership settings
- A strong portfolio of UX work across web platforms designed for multiple devices and viewports
- Expertise in IA, interaction design, usability best practices, and inclusive design principles
- Experience guiding or contributing to design systems, especially in cross-functional settings
- Strong workshop facilitation and cross-disciplinary collaboration skills
- Experience working in Agile teams and partnering with product managers, researchers, and engineers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills - able to distill complexity and build shared understanding
- Contributes to team storytelling efforts by shaping key visuals or design artifacts that help clarify strategy, communicate value, and elevate the overall product narrative
- A collaborative spirit and a desire to contribute to a values-driven organization focused on human potential and societal transformation
Our Values: Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. Our culture is deeply rooted in Principle Based Management® (PBM®), a framework guided by the principles that drive human progress, such as dignity, openness, and bottom-up empowerment. PBM® empowers our employees to be entrepreneurial, to innovate, and to continually drive transformation.
We believe diversity fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success, and that is why we’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity.
