Principal Product Designer

📋 Description

• The Staff/Sr. Staff Product Designer role within Shield AI’s Hivemind organization is responsible for solving complex User Experience and Product Design problems associated with the end-to-end user experience of developing, deploying, testing and evaluating autonomy solutions.

• The core products developed by the Hivemind organization target multiple user personae, ranging from the external end-user (the “Operator” of autonomous systems), to the Test engineer (who tests and evaluates autonomous systems in software-in-the-loop, hardware-in-the-loop and real-world flight test environments), to the AI engineer (who develops and tests autonomy architectures).

• Significant portions of the product are best described as developer facing software product (i.e. SDKs, CLIs) and require contribution from designers that have relevant experience.

• Other portions of the product leverage web technologies and UIs to support configuration management, scenario design, mission planning, mission rehearsal, debrief, and test and evaluation process.

• The supported workflows with these products range from the highly visual/experiential experience of the operator using a ground-control-station (GCS) client to mission plan and command-and-control, to autonomy engineers working within the Integrated Development Environment, to Test Engineers using the web portal and extensible CLI tool.

• As such, Hivemind is a highly complex and technical product that enables complex workflows across multiple collaborating teams.

🎯 Requirements

• Masters degree or equivalent in design, interaction design, human-computer-interaction, or similar

• 8+ years of experience as a product and/or user experience designer

• Experience with highly complex software products

• Experience with product and user experience design of software products delivered with React / web-stack

• Comfortable working within a Linux environment, experience with the Linux terminal

• Thrives in a high-velocity product development environment

• Is comfortable with ambiguity and is able to produce results with high-level guidance

🏖️ Benefits

• Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity

• Pay within range listed above + temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)