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Staff Product Designer

Vantor 🇺🇸 Westminster, Colorado, United States of America

Full-time Senior

Own high-impact problem spaces to define cross-product design frameworks and interaction models for spatial and data-heavy workflows. Partner with Product and Engineering teams to lead alignment, establish reusable standards, and mentor senior designers.

Responsibilities

  • Own ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces across Vantor's product ecosystem
  • Define cross-product design frameworks, patterns, and experiences for spatial, data-heavy, and operational workflows
  • Shape interaction models for maps, imagery, layers, tasking, monitoring, analytics, and platform experiences
  • Partner deeply with Product and Engineering to define product direction, not just execute against requirements
  • Lead alignment across multiple teams and resolve ambiguity through structured design thinking
  • Establish reusable patterns and standards that improve clarity, consistency, and correctness across products
  • Raise the quality bar for design outputs, critique, documentation, and implementation readiness
  • Mentor senior designers and help them move from execution to system-level ownership
  • Use AI-enabled design practices to accelerate exploration, synthesis, prototyping, and decision-making while maintaining strong design judgment

Requirements

  • Deep experience designing complex enterprise, technical, operational, or mission-critical products
  • Proven ability to define systems, not just deliver screens or workflows
  • Strong product thinking and ability to influence roadmap, strategy, and prioritization
  • Comfortable working in ambiguity and creating structure where none exists
  • Strong facilitation skills, including leading workshops and aligning senior stakeholders
  • Experience working closely with engineering teams on complex technical systems
  • Strong portfolio evidence of cross-product impact, reusable frameworks, and system-level design thinking
  • Ability to communicate design rationale clearly to executive, product, engineering, and design audiences
  • Strong judgment around output quality, tradeoffs, risks, and decision-making under complexity
  • 5+ years of experience in product design, UX, or HCI
  • Deep expertise in visual design preferred

Benefits

  • Competitive total rewards package
  • Robust 401(k) with company match
  • Mental health resources
  • Unique perks like student loan repayment assistance, adoption reimbursement and pet insurance

Key Skills

Product Design UX HCI Visual Design Interaction Design Design Systems Design Thinking Product Management Engineering Communication Facilitation Leadership Mentorship AI-enabled design practices Geospatial platforms Mapping tools Satellite imagery Defense tech Autonomy Operational systems Intelligence products Data visualization Analytics AI-supported workflows 3D/spatial interfaces Command-and-control systems

About Vantor

Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence to unlock a more automated, interoperable world. We give decision makers and operators the power to build a unified intelligence picture, delivering the clarity they need to navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. We fuse data from the world’s most capable imaging satellites with real-time sensor feeds from space, air, and ground to create the most accurate living digital replica of Earth. Our AI-powered spatial intelligence platform automates every part of the intelligence cycle—from tasking to collection to production—to continuously update and analyze this foundation at the pace of change. Our products drive deeper mission-critical insights and connect the next generation of autonomous systems across the defense, intelligence, and commercial landscape.

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