The Senior Product Designer role at Shield AI is crucial to solving complex User Experience and Product Design problems associated with command and control of autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS). Building products that enable, empower and scale human operators, your work will result in direct mission impact while ensuring safe and successful mission planning, rehearsal, execution, and debrief. 

In this role, reporting into the Head of Product Design and Research, you will help drive design strategy and own execution of key products and initiatives related to human-robot collaboration. You will work alongside engineers, product managers, technical directors, researchers and other designers, devoted to excellence, committed to collaboration, and focused on harnessing the power of AI to protect service members, first responders, and civilians.

An ideal candidate should have prior experience designing within the autonomy, gaming, or creative/engineering tooling spaces. They should aspire to be part of an industry-changing team developing autonomy for the defense space.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

• Design effective and elegant solutions to complex problems taking into account product requirements, user needs and engineering effort required.
• Be a go-to subject matter expert of parts of the product(s) within your scope to the rest of your team.
• Help drive cross-functional alignment through stakeholder interviews and workshops.
• Work across the entire design stack: journey maps, low fidelity sketches, high-fidelity visuals and dynamic interaction prototypes.
• Speak clearly to tradeoffs between design decisions.
• Hold the product experience to high standards ensuring that what gets released is built to design specifications.
• Prioritize progress over perfection, knowing when to reinvent the wheel and when to apply a proven design approach.
• Provide and seek feedback from other designers and non-designers to push the bar for quality.
• Stay organized, manage time effectively and prioritize work between multiple projects and deadlines.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years of design experience as a distinguished individual contributor.
• Available online portfolio of past work demonstrating problem framing, problem solving and expert level visual design acumen.
• Ability to work efficiently, demonstrating bias for action in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment.
• Track record of working within cross-functional teams, synthesizing feedback and input from Product Management and Engineering.
• Curiosity for autonomy, robotics and core machine learning concepts ranging from simple, binary supervised learning to the state-of-the-art in reinforcement learning.
• Web and tablet app design experience and deep understanding of each platform’s constraints.
• Experience presenting to senior leaders outside of design.
• Top notch level skills with design and prototyping tools such as Figma, Figjam, Lottie and Lucid.
• Understanding of the full software development lifecycle.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• BS/MS in Psychology, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical/Aerospace or another relevant field.

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