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Staff Product Designer (R3750)
Shield Ai • San Diego, United States of America 🇺🇸
Shield AI is seeking a Staff Product Designer to join the Hivemind team and deliver exceptional user experiences across a suite of highly technical autonomy development tools. The ideal candidate will have 7+ years of professional experience in product/UX design and a track record of shipped, user-facing products.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end design for high-impact product areas, from strategy and concept to final implementation
- Drive and uphold design quality through strong ideation, systems thinking, and refinement of shared design standards
- Partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Customer Experience to define product direction and user needs
- Facilitate design strategy workshops and collaboration to drive alignment and momentum
- Influence cross-functional planning, roadmap prioritization, and long-term product vision through design shaping rituals
- Advocate for the user experience in company-wide discussions; help shape how product success is defined
- Lead design reviews to collect feedback from engineering, product and customer surrogates, and align features and capabilities
Requirements
- Bachelors in design, HCI, or demonstrated work experience at a comparable level of expertise
- 7+ years of professional experience in product/UX design with a track record of shipped, user-facing products
- A portfolio demonstrating exceptional interaction design
- Expertise with modern design tools (Figma, ProtoPie, etc.) and workflows (design systems, component libraries)
- Experience leading product initiatives end-to-end - from exploration to final implementation
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to scale and improve design frameworks
- Excellent communication skills, able to clearly present design rationale to non-design stakeholders
Key Skills
- Product/UX design
- Interaction design
- Figma
- ProtoPie
- Design systems
- Component libraries
Benefits
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
- Temporary employee offer package: Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
About Shield Ai
Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. The company has a suite of products, including the V-BAT and X-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines, and is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.
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