Staff Product Designer, Aircraft GCS (R3822)

As a Staff Designer at Shield AI, you'll lead design efforts for key GCS capabilities, ensuring user needs are met across the full development lifecycle, and design intuitive workflows and spatial interfaces for autonomous assets.

Responsibilities

• Lead design efforts for key GCS capabilities, ensuring user needs are met across the full development lifecycle.
• Collaborate with engineering, autonomy, product, and test teams to gather system constraints and translate them into user-centered design solutions.
• Influence cross-functional planning, roadmap prioritization, and long-term product vision.
• Drive the end-to-end design process—from concept, wireframes, and prototypes to detailed UI specs and implementation support.
• Regularly test and iterate on designs with real users, incorporating feedback to improve usability and mission effectiveness.
• Help define and maintain a coherent visual and interaction language that supports real-time control, situational awareness, and operational trust.
• Advocate for operator experience and usability in high-stakes environments where clarity, speed, and precision are critical.
• Contribute to the evolution of our design systems, tooling, and cross-platform interface strategy.
• Travel to test flights to perform operator research and support the rollout of new GCS features.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of design, HCI, or related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 4 years of experience; or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of experience leading end-to-end product design across complex features or products.
• Proven track record designing complex, interactive systems—especially in domains involving spatial data, control interfaces, or high information density.
• Demonstrated expertise in Figma as a primary design tool for creating scalable, system-driven designs.
• Deep experience working within cross-functional teams, synthesizing and input from Product Management and Engineering.
• Experience conducting usability testing and integrating user feedback into iterative design cycles.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate design rationale and tradeoffs.
• Ability to work efficiently, demonstrating bias for action in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.

Key Skills

• Design, HCI, or related experience
• Leading end-to-end product design
• Designing complex, interactive systems
• Expertise in Figma
• Cross-functional team experience
• Usability testing and feedback integration
• Communication skills
• Bias for action in fast-paced environments

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Housing stipend for qualified hires