Staff Product Designer (R3750)

Shield AI is a venture-backed deep-tech company focused on protecting service members and civilians with intelligent systems. They are seeking a Staff Product Designer to deliver exceptional user experiences across a suite of highly technical autonomy development tools, tackling complex design challenges throughout the product lifecycle.

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
• 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