Staff Product Designer (R3750)
$160k/y-$240k/y
Shield AIa day ago
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OnsiteFull-timeSenior
Summary
Shield AI is seeking a Staff Product Designer to join their Hivemind team in San Diego, CA. The role focuses on delivering exceptional user experiences across a suite of highly technical autonomy development tools.
About the Role
As a Staff Product Designer, you will tackle complex design challenges spanning the full product lifecycle—from development to deployment, testing, and evaluation of autonomous systems. You will lead end-to-end design for high-impact product areas, drive design quality, partner with cross-functional teams, and advocate for user experience in company-wide discussions.
About You
Required:
- 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.
Preferred:
- Background in designing enterprise software and platforms.
- Experience designing developer-facing software tools.
- Familiarity with geospatial interfaces and complex data visualization or analysis workflows.
- Experience contributing to design systems and iterating with prototypes, A/B testing, or data-informed workflows.
- Passion for mentoring others and cultivating design team culture and process.
- Experience with automation, autonomy, self-driving, robotics, aerospace, aviation.
Benefits
- Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity.
- Temporary benefits package applicable after 60 days of employment.
Shield AI
Founded in 2015, Shield AI is a venture-backed defense technology company with the mission of protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. Its products include the V-BAT aircraft, Hivemind Enterprise, and the Hivemind Vision product lines. With offices in San Diego, Dallas, Washington, D.C., Abu Dhabi (UAE), Kyiv (Ukraine), and Melbourne (Australia), Shield AI’s technology actively supports U.S. and allied operations worldwide.
San Diego, CA