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"Design creates culture. Culture shapes values. Values determine the future."
— Robert L. Peters
Lead user research and design user flows and interactions across robotic interfaces and software. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to assess customer needs and create intuitive workflows.
Responsibilities
- Lead user research from planning and protocol development to synthesis and communication of insights to inform design strategy and system-level thinking.
- Design user flows and interactions across robotic interfaces, VR, and fleet management software.
- Facilitate workshops and design activities with cross-functional teams to explore concepts, prioritize ideas, and build alignment.
- Develop and maintain user personas, journey maps, and other artifacts that represent the needs of internal, external, and end-users.
- Conduct usability testing of early concepts and prototypes to evaluate clarity, safety, and learnability.
- Help establish foundational tools, templates, and processes for a growing UX practice in a startup environment.
- Collaborate closely with product managers and engineers to bring research-driven design into real-world applications.
- Adapt your work to different time scales—supporting quick-turn testing as well as long-term vision building.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in user experience design, user research, or a hybrid UX role.
- Bachelor’s degree in User Experience Design, Graphic Design or equivalent field of study or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated ability to plan, conduct, and synthesize both generative and evaluative research.
- Strong interaction design skills with a portfolio that shows systems thinking and complex workflows.
- Experience designing for hardware-software systems, industrial environments, or technical tools preferred.
- Skilled at creating design artifacts that clarify and influence, from flows and prototypes to maps and concept boards.
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Familiarity with design tools including Figma & Miro.
- Comfortable working in ambiguity and shaping structure as the team grows.
- Passionate about working at the forefront of human-robot collaboration.
Key Skills
- Demonstrated ability to plan, conduct, and synthesize both generative and evaluative research.
- Strong interaction design skills with a portfolio that shows systems thinking and complex workflows.
- Skilled at creating design artifacts that clarify and influence, from flows and prototypes to maps and concept boards.
- Excellent facilitation and communication skills across technical and non-technical audiences.
- Familiarity with design tools including Figma & Miro.
About Apptronik
Robots have the potential to reshape our existence. Our mission is to leverage robotics to improve universal quality of life. Robots will become one of the most impactful and effective tools humanity has ever created. We believe robots should do the work humans don’t want to do. We pursue ambitious goals to make this a reality. We’re not satisfied making incremental improvements to the status quo but are driven to change the paradigm altogether. Our robots are versatile, capable of solving numerous tasks with a single embodiment. Join us on the next phase of our journey as we get our systems out into the world to do the most meaningful work.
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